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What Is The Power of Positive Thinking?
   

If we're not thinking positively, we're thinking negatively. There is no "neutral thinking." You're always actively creating either the life of your dreams or your nightmares. Even those who call themselves "realists" are only perpetuating things as they are. If you're happy with things as they are, then continue thinking how you have been. But if you want change in your life, then you can use the power of positive thinking to get it.

To start accessing the power of positive thinking, start coming up with positive statements to replace the negative ones you've been habitually telling yourself until now.

And don't just come up with any old positive statements, come up with ones that are as specific as possible. The more specific you are about the good things you think about, the more you will conjure up conditions and circumstances befitting your design.

Remember that positive thinking is proactive thinking, meaning that you are thinking about what you do what and not what you don't. To think positively, your thoughts must not be framed in reference to those things you want changed. They must be framed in relation to what you want things changed to.

Two methods of using positive thinking to effect actual, practical, measurable results in the world are affirmations and visualization. Affirmations are positively phrased statements you tell yourself repeatedly in order to bring yourself ever-more into alignment with the actualization of those statements. Visualizations are mental pictures that serve the same ends.

For best results, create affirmations and visualizations that trigger your emotions, for it is not merely your thoughts that create your reality but those thoughts fueled by the most passionate emotions in you, be they positive or negative.

Affirmations, visualizations, and all other forms and methods of positive thinking are based in imagining the way we want things to be rather than observing how they currently appear to be. Rather than bemoaning and complaining about your life as it "is", positive thinking empowers you to create it all anew, and this time to create it how you want it to be.

And if there are things in your life that you already love, that you're already happy with, you can use the power of positive thinking to nourish and nurture those things to continue to grow and blossom in your life. One of the highest forms of positive thinking, actually, is gratitude. By expressing gratitude for the things you appreciate about yourself and your life, you are saying to the Universe, "More of this, please." In parenting, it's called positive reinforcement. In spiritual practice, it's called gratitude.

In fact, if you take no other steps to harness the power of positive thinking in your life than taking your attention wholly off those things you're unhappy about and putting them instead on those things you are happy about, you will make leaps and bounds in improving your quality of life and appreciation for life in every area of your life.

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