Learning The Steps Of Positive Thinking

How To Think Positive

These steps of positive thinking outlined below are the tools I used to help heal my mind during a very dark period. When I started using them, I didn't really believe they'd work. But when you're desperate like I was, you'll try anything! The good news is, the power of positive thinking is real and these steps work!

Experience has taught me that learning how to think positive and practicing positive self talk are critical if you want to access the power of the subconscious mind to change your negative programming.

Steps Of Positive Thinking, Step 1: Observe Your Dominant Negative Thoughts

Society puts such a premium on being happy and positive that we become afraid of listening to our negative thoughts and feeling our negative feelings. But running away from what you're truly thinking and feeling isn't the pathway to salvation.

Just stop, take some deep breaths and observe what you're thinking and face your emotions. Rather than being threatened by these thoughts, be curious. Use them as guideposts. Where are they coming from? Are they the truth or have you made them up? Are they fears of the future or regrets of the past? Getting familiar with what goes on inside your mind is a critical step to self acceptance and peace.

Tip: Think of your negative emotions as clues that you're engaging in negative self talk in some areas of life. Taking some time everyday to meditate on your mind will help you find this negative conversation and change it. Meditation has many benefits. Practice it overtime and you will transform your brain's structure and function and literally acquire a new mind! I have found binaural meditation like The Morry Method System helped me stick to meditating even when it seemed impossible. Beginning a practice can seem difficult. Just stick with it and you'll find it gets easier over time.

Steps Of Positive Thinking, Step 2: Get Real About The Power Of Your Thoughts

The thoughts you are having are what have made your life the way it is. Thinking about your own life, in what aspects is it good? You will no doubt find that in the areas where life is good, you have positive thoughts and beliefs. What are the thoughts you're having in relation to negative areas in your life? Can you see that your thinking here perpetuates these negative events?

You may be thinking to yourself that it's the other way around in your life: that in fact, it's the events in your life that are causing you to think negatively. Consider that it is your thinking that's flawed here. It is a common misconception to think that your circumstances cause your unhappiness. Unfortunately, most people fall victim to this misconception which leaves them disempowered to make meaningful changes in their thinking and behavior.

The truth is, most of your life isn't something that happens outside of your control. Your thoughts create your experiences which means the way your life occurs depends on what is happening inside you. Hence the saying "happiness is an inside job."

Tip: If you have any doubt in the truth of this idea, let me suggest you read about Dr. Masaru Emoto and try his rice experiment to see for yourself the power of your thoughts.

Steps Of Positive Thinking, Step 3: Decide Who You Want To Be

One of my favorite positive thinking quotes is an astute observation by Albert Einstein:

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

Tip: To help break your negative thinking habit, create a personal development plan that will inspire you to become all that you are capable of being. Now observe how you feel when you think about achieving your goals and dreams? If you fill your mind with thoughts of how to achieve your goals, you won't have room for negative thinking in your life.

Steps Of Positive Thinking, Step 4: Create Positive Thinking Support Structures

Tip: When negative thinking tries to sabotage your efforts to change, just relax, breathe and acknowledge you are facing resistance. A great way I find to disempower negative emotions is to view them as nothing more than bad weather - they don't have to be anymore significant than heavy clouds in the sky. And just like clouds, negative emotions pass. Observe them rather than becoming them.

Steps Of Positive Thinking, Step 5: Repeat Repeat Repeat

Immerse yourself in the fulfilment of your goals and dreams. Rely on your support structures every single day to strengthen your positivity and enable you to keep on persisting.

Tip: Overtime, when you are working towards the fulfilment of dreams and goals, new challenges arise. As these times, you may become vulnerable to negative thinking again. This is when it's even more critical than ever to rely on your positive thinking support structures.

If you follow these steps of positive thinking diligently there is no chance that you won't eventually know the power of positive thinking in your own life. Overtime, by repeating positive self talk and positive actions that align with your goals and dreams you will develop new habits. This is how your thinking and behaving can be used to harness the power of the subconscious mind.

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