What Is Positive Thinking And Living?
What Is Positive Thinking And Living?
We think 60,000 thoughts every single day. The majority of our daily thoughts are habitual, repetitive, and negative.
I found learning to reframe, redirect, and change my negative thoughts to positive ones was life-changing for me especially since we create our lives from our thoughts and beliefs. What exactly is positive thinking and living?
It is being aware of your thoughts and consciously choosing to think beneficial thoughts that serve and create a joyful, healthy, peaceful, abundant, meaningful and fulfilling life in alignment with your values and soul’s mission and purpose.
Positive thinkers have an optimistic attitude, focus on the good, and know and trust that everything in life happens for their benefit. They look for the lessons and blessings in every situation, even the negative ones.
So, you may be wondering how do I reprogram my mind for positive thinking? let’s discuss that next
How to reprogram your mind for positive thinking
It is not difficult to re-program your mind for positive thinking provided you are consciously aware of your thoughts and implement some of the suggestions mentioned below to help you along your journey.
Remember Who You Are
You are a powerful soul that is having a temporary human experience. You are an individualized expression of your creator. Your life has infinite possibilities.
Catch, redirect, and change any negative thoughts that are not aligned to your real self (soul), which has the same qualities as your creator which are love, peace, joy, compassion, generosity, and abundance.
Be Aware Of Your Thoughts
Since your identity, beliefs, and thoughts create your life, make sure you are only thinking thoughts that are aligned to what you want to create and manifest into your life.
Change and redirect any thoughts that are counter to what you want to create in your life. Find proof that matches the beliefs and thoughts that are aligned to what you want and against the beliefs and thoughts that you do not want.
Repeat the aligned positive thoughts and beliefs to yourself and form a stronger and positive thought pattern into your brain that eventually becomes automated and natural for you.
Mind Your Body Language
Your negative thoughts often lead to you feeling sad and walking around with your shoulders drooped over or any other posture indicative of someone who has given up on life feeling hopeless and is not confident.
Your body will respond to that and will release stress hormones into your body causing you to have an adversarial physiological response to these negative thoughts.
Instead, redirect and change your negative thoughts and stand tall with your shoulders back signalling to your body that everything is okay. Know and trust that you are bigger and more powerful than any problem out there.
Recite Daily Affirmations
Recite daily empowering affirmations like: “I am a powerful soul, I am a loving soul, and I am a peaceful soul.”
These will serve as daily reminders about how powerful you are and your accessibility to your creator’s power, strength, and intelligence and will cause you to be less likely to think negative thoughts.
Take the time to affirm and program thoughts and beliefs aligned to things that you want to manifest in your life because when you affirm negative things, that is what will be created and attracted into your life.
What you focus upon expands and attracts to you, so make sure you are affirming things that you want and reflect that you are a powerful limitless soul because that’s who you are by nature.
Choose Your Words Carefully
Words carry a vibration, and you speak things into creation, which will then manifest into your life.
When you start thinking positive thoughts which will lead to you speaking words with a higher vibration that are true to your nature like: “absolutely, I will for sure.”
Don’t use words like, I am not sure, or maybe, which arise from negative thoughts, have weaker vibrations, are not aligned to your true nature and infinite possibilities.
Speak the words that serve you and help you live the life that you want to live which is your very best life while you are here on this earth.
Seek Out Positivity
Consume positive information instead of focusing on and consuming negative news and messages.
The negative messages lead to you thinking negative thoughts more habitually and make you feel like the world is a negative place to live in.
Read books, listen to podcasts, watch videos, documentaries, and movies that are inspiring and have positive messages to make positive thoughts naturally default for you in your life.
Have An Emotional Outlet
If you are currently experiencing challenges and frustrations in life, then it is very easy to think negative thoughts.
It is helpful to have a few options and ways to release these feelings and prevent the energy from getting stuck in your body and causing further health issues.
You can tell yourself: “I will experience this frustration for a set amount of time, and then let it go for good” and immerse yourself in a different activity to distract yourself.
You can scream if that helps you let it go. Picture your creator’s love and light filling the area where there is pain and frustrations once resided.
Dancing, singing, playing a musical instrument, or listening to music, speaking to a coach or a friend and borrowing their courage are other ways to deal with it.
Remind yourself that everything in life happens for your good, reframe your thoughts and stories, and look for the lessons and blessings in every situation.
Create Positive Environment
Create a positive environment in your home by displaying messages all around you that are inspiring, and lead you to think positive thoughts.
Wear clothing with inspiring messages that also signal and remind you to think positive thoughts in alignment with your true nature.
Reduce or eliminate your interaction with all the people in your life currently who are toxic, and negative. You are going to be like the five closest people that you hang out with regularly. So, choose those people very wisely.
Look After Your Body And Mind
eat food that drains your body and is not good for you like sugar and flour, then you will experience negative thoughts and adversarial health consequences.
Your body is your soul’s abode and so it should be looked after well so the soul can fulfill its mission, calling, and purpose.
Make sure you drink enough water that is optimally required by your body, get enough hours of sleep and rest, exercise, be energetic.
Think good thoughts and be healthy so that you can fulfill your purpose and have a positive demeanour and outlook for your life.
Meditate Daily
Incorporate a daily practice of morning meditation in your schedule. It will ground you and help you better handle and respond to the challenges of the day rather than reacting.
You will be better able to live your life from the inside out and utilize your inner wisdom. You will be able to hear your inner loving guidance that is only possible when you connect to your creator via meditation.
The more you meditate, the more you will begin to experience and feel inner joy, peace, wellbeing, and bliss which is your true nature and you will be less likely to experience and think negatively.
Practice Gratitude Daily
A daily practice of gratitude will help you raise your energy and make you less likely to revert to negative thoughts automatically.
Drench yourself in gratitude every time you recognize yourself spiralling into habitual negative thought patterns and you will be able to very quickly change your state to a more positive one.
Help Others
Whenever you feel stuck in frustration and negative thought pattern take the focus off yourself, reach out and be of service to someone else.
This will raise your energy and make you feel positive and better because compassion and service are aligned with our nature and purpose.
Forgive And Heal
If you are feeling hurt and holding on to resentment towards someone else, remember it will harm you and not the other person. Forgive, heal yourself, and let the hurt go from your body before it turns into a health issue.
In conclusion, now you know what positive thinking and living is and how to re program your mind for positive thinking.
It is being aware of your thoughts and consciously choosing to think beneficial thoughts, that serve and help you create a life in alignment with your values and soul’s purpose, instead of having the habitual negative thoughts patterns.
Also, positive thinkers have an optimistic attitude, focusing on the good, and knowing and trusting that everything in life happens for their benefit, looking for the lessons and blessings in every situation, even the negative ones.
Remember we think 60,000 thoughts in a day every single day. Most of these thoughts are habitual, repetitive, and they are negative. It would be more beneficial for you to learn to change these thoughts to positive ones since we create our lives from our thoughts and beliefs.
You are now well equipped, empowered, and know ways to reprogram your mind to think positively even when you are experiencing frustrations and challenges in life while on earth school. Good Luck!
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