Mastering the skill of positive thinking takes time, practice and patience. Accept that you
are human and that every day is a new day and it brings you one step closer to having
complete control over your thoughts. The following tools will help you reach your goal of
mastering your thoughts and thinking positively.
Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements. You can choose an affirmation to say each
morning. You can choose a statement to repeat to yourself throughout your day or you
can post declarations in places where you’re likely to read them frequently.
Potential affirmations include:
- Every day in every way I'm getting better, better and better.
- Everything is coming to me easily and effortlessly.
- Everything I need is already within me.
- I love and appreciate myself just as I am.
- I accept all my feelings as part of myself.
- I love doing my work, and I am richly rewarded creatively and financially.
- I always communicate clearly and effectively.
- I now have enough time, energy, wisdom and money to accomplish all
my desires.
- It's okay for me to have everything I want.
One tool that will help you to become and feel more positive is the ability to feel gratitude
for the smallest of things. We are amazingly fortunate to be here on this planet and to
be alive and the mere act of sitting down every day and documenting at least one thing
that you are grateful for is a powerful way to begin your day. It changes your
perspective on life, it strengthens your faith in the world, in your god and in yourself.
Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions a person can feel.
Believe
Faith strengthens us and gives us the power to believe in our abilities. Faith that
everything is going to work out all right gives us the strength to put one foot in front of
the other with a smile on our face. Even when we face our toughest challenges, faith
that we can handle them pulls us through.
It doesn’t have to be a faith in a god or in the universe or even in other people. Faith
can reside in simply believing that you are capable of doing anything that you set your
mind to. How do you convince yourself of that? Keep repeating it to yourself and you
will eventually believe.
Meditate
Meditation is a powerful tool to achieve clarity, focus, and peace of mind. Many people
don’t believe that they can meditate and that is okay. It is also okay to give it a try.
Commit to meditating for 5 minutes a day for a week. Focus on your breathing and do
your best to eliminate all thoughts from your mind. Thoughts will invade and some days
will be more difficult than others. The point of this exercise is that you don’t know if
meditation is truly for you until you give it a try. Also, if you believe that you can commit
to five minutes a day, you can and that success will strengthen you.
Read positive quotes/books
Positive thoughts and feelings are contagious. When you read and surround yourself
with positive messages, some of them eventually sink in. Consider starting your day
with a positive thought or a positive quote and ending your day with an entry into a
gratitude journal. You’ll find that you wake each day with a different perspective and the
little problems seem to fade to the background where they belong.
Surround yourself with positive people
There are always going to be moments where someone you’re conversing with is being
negative. While you can’t change them, you can redirect the conversation to a more
positive note. You can also leave. Positive energy is contagious. Negative energy is
contagious too. Don’t allow yourself to catch it.
Be patient. Not everyone is going to get it. However as you change and avoid negative
energy, the positive energy around you will catch on. You’ll watch it happen and be
amazed and proud of what you’re accomplishing.
Listen to positive music
The effect of classical music has been studied on infants. Scientists theorize that the
music triggers brain development. Music has a profound power on our brain, emotions,
attitude and outlook. Music can trigger a memory. You favorite song can place a smile
on your face and a song that you dislike can cause you to groan and cover your ears.
Music is powerful.
Visualize
Visualization is a tool that athletes learn to use early on. They visualize themselves
playing the game, running the race, scoring, or crossing the finish line. The best can
actually hear the crowd, smell the air and feel the sweat dripping off their bodies.
Visualization is a powerful tool. You can see yourself succeed before it actually
happens. It prepares you for the bumps in the road because you can visualize how you
would handle them before they occur.
Here’s how to start: Before you get out of bed in the morning visualize your day. What
do you have to do? Run though a task list. Are there any tasks that are going to be
particularly challenging? If so, visualize yourself handling the task successfully.
Visualize yourself walking into work with a positive attitude. Visualize yourself having a
pleasant conversation with your least favorite co-worker.
If it isn’t a work day, visualize yourself having a pleasant time with your family, friends, or
pets. If you have the day to yourself, visualize yourself doing something that you love,
something that gives you pleasure.
Take five to ten minutes every morning to run through this exercise and you’ll find that
as your ability to visualize improves, so to does your day. Your visualizations will
become reality. Use this exercise before any stressful part of your day, visualize
yourself handling the task with ease and success.
Laugh
People that laugh live longer. Laugh every day. What makes you laugh? Do you have
a favorite television show? Cartoon? Pets and children can be extremely funny, actually
many adults can be too without intending to. People watch and look for the humor in life.
When you do this too, it can save your life.
Practice control over your thoughts
Eliminating all negative thought from your consciousness is not easy and it will not
happen overnight. However, as you become aware of your thoughts, you will begin to
recognize them as either positive or negative. Most of us spend our days with thoughts
running in and out of our brain and we don’t stop to analyze them. Now is the time to
begin analyzing your thoughts.
As you begin to feel negative thoughts and energy, change them to positive thoughts
immediately. Words or thoughts like I can’t, I don’t, I won’t are all negative.
Replace them with, I can, I do, I will. For example: Instead of thinking, “I don’t want to
get stuck in traffic,” think “I do want to get where I’m going quickly and I will handle what
ever comes my way with patience and intelligence.”
If you find negative thoughts are overwhelming you, evaluate why you’re having so
many negative thoughts. Do not judge yourself for having the negative thoughts, merely
try to understand them. Once you understand why you’re feeling so negatively you can
take steps to move towards a more positive outlook.
You now have the tools to turn your life in a powerful and positive direction. There is
nothing that you can’t handle. You are in control of your life and in control of your
moods. Positive thinking is a skill and as you improve upon you ability to think positive,
you’ll find it will become second nature. As your ability to become completely positive
grows, few of life’s challenges will feel overwhelming. You will feel in control most of the
time and you will learn to believe that your health and your life are determined solely by
you.
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