Positive Attitude: What Can It Do For You?

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Once and for all, you can change negative self-fulfilling prophesies and negative self-talk, setting yourself up to fail. You can actively, deliberately do a 180 degree turn and start thinking in a positive manner about yourself and your life, your future. You can be happy and successful, experience life to its fullest. Actively make better, more positive choices, choose your process and outcome and be more in control, not a victim of circumstance.

Happiness over sadness, smiles over tears, do not deny yourself emotions and upset, just put a different spin and light (perspective) on it and you will see life, outlook, prospects, mood change. Find the silver lining in every dark cloud and you will start seeing things you never would have otherwise.

Be, get and stay optimistic and positive despite what might be challenging and getting you under right this very minute. Take a longer view, futuristic and forward-focused. Be good-humored, patient and look for what life and tomorrow has to offer for you. Dismiss worries and stress, negative thinking and ban worry from your life. Ensure that you surround you with others who are positive also, be inspiring, affirm to yourself happiness, health, powerful positive mantras that motivate and let you reach higher, believe in yourself, embrace potential, promise and opportunity. That is the nature and scope of a positive attitude! Dare to speak into reality what you wish for to be, master your thinking and wayward mind, concentrate, focus and reflect on things more often, at every opportunity and you might surprised how different things might be in the morning!

The benefits of a positive attitude abound, stretching deep, reaching high, far and wide, for a variety of things in life. There are many faces, guises and ways that it will manifest itself in both your personal and professional life. If you have positive attitude you and others will recognize:

-    An innate and undeniable ability to inspire and motivate self and others.
-    Confidence and self-belief
-    Goal achievement
-    Happy and energetic, more life-force, driven and determined, more stamina, endurance and perseverance, greater inner power and strength.
-    Success faster, readily, easily, without much hassle – seemingly seamless and almost effortless, by default
-    Less hurdles, obstacles and difficulty to overcome on life’s path
-    Overcoming trouble and problems easily, finding solutions quickly, almost on demand
-    More open-minded and welcoming
-    Gaining respect for self, by others
-    Positive attitude believes you can, say yes, negative attitude just the opposite!

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On Staying Motivated

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Life has a way of interfering us while we are going after our dreams. It distracts us from pursuing things that really matter and even convinces us that nothing really matters. It can attract us to adopt a defeatist attitude – lacking on enthusiasm and interest – ultimately sapping out our sense of purpose.

But there are ways to stay motivated, no matter how you feel about everything around you. These are not easy, far from that, but are nevertheless very helpful in keeping yourself fired with motivation.

Develop the attitude of interest. Find the thing you are most passionate about. The happiest people, they say, are those people who do the things they love the most. It is not coincidental that they are the most motivated people as well. After all, passion and motivation go hand in hand. They are closely intertwined to create a person who is full of zest about everything.

Nearly every successful people are very passionate about what they do. Why do you think Lance Armstrong, despite of having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, went on to win 7 consecutive Tour de France trophies? It is not only because he refused to give in to life’s cruel joke, but because he is also very passionate about cycling. We are not saying that it has to take some forceful circumstances in our lives before we find the thing we are most passionate about. In most cases, this very thing is right at the tip of your nose. You just don’t want to see it, to accept it.

Find the thing that can spark and sustain your enthusiasm. Then channel all your energies towards that thing. This sparks motivation, productivity and satisfaction.

But what do you do when you are stuck with things that you are not truly passionate about? In times like this, when passion is lacking and your zeal is at its all time low, interest will suffice. Be interested in everything you do, no matter how boring, tedious or nonsensical it may seem. Find meaning in everything. Take the time to be engrossed, to be interested. Otherwise, your life will seem and feel like a living hell.

Having said that, always find reasons to be happy about the things you do, the goals you are pursuing, the dreams you are trying to realize, and the life you are trying to live. Never lose sight of happiness and never let it slip away.

Maintain an elevated level of energy. The mere act of smiling at yourself can recharge your energy. Having no energy almost always ensure that you won’t feel as motivated as you need. Always take the time to recharge yourself – sleep, eat, breathe, relax, and rest. Do whatever it takes to always keep your energy high, if not sustained.

Act like it. Translate positive emotions into actions. If you are not feeling positive about anything, try to act like it. Sometimes, despite of lacking motivation, you can still feel motivated when you deliberately act with enthusiasm.

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Positive Attitude: Dismissing Negative Thoughts

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Imagine how our physical performance can be influenced by mental attitude… just for a minute. Contemplate, how we think and feel about things, will affect what we say, do, accomplish and pursue? Then do a little exercise: Take a look at these two lists of words and then how they make you feel while and after reading them. Is the one more motivational or a downer? Why is that? Which one will move you to move mountains or flop back on the couch?

Confused
Cranky
Simple-minded
Feeble
Senile
Stressed
Frail
Fragile
Victim

Accomplished
Active
Dignified
Meaningful
Recognized
Distinguished
Elite
Wise
Empowered
In control

We are living, breathing, human systems , interacting with one another and the environment in which we live and exist. Some have argued that we are all connected and all part of the same reality, existence and energy dynamics. Thinking and feeling positively about ourselves, our health, abilities, future, success, day, opportunity, can definitely have an effect on how we approach others, view ourselves and tackle what we have to do and achieve.

Our thoughts and feelings are inextricably connected and now there are MRI studies that confirm that controlling these thoughts, increased mental focus, positive thoughts trumping negative can have a very real effect, which in turn has a great boding future for self-healing practices, exploration of how a positive disposition can affect your health.

Studies have also shown that more upbeat people, tend to be healthier, optimists tend to live longer (as much as 7 years, some claim), reflection and meditation can actually lower  stress-hormone levels in your body, to the point where you can inherently strengthen your immune system and live, be healthier. In a recent publication entitled “Pivot” by Zimmerman,  you will find the following quote: “Your attitude, even more than your aptitude, determines your altitude.” According to this musing and shared insights, wisdom,  we all seem to struggle profusely with  hot to get and keep, stay positive. We are at odds with our own attitudes, unable to tap into it to mobilize and enhance our lives. It is fundamental that we change our thinking about what and how we are and will be happy and successful, dismissing negative thought, critique and tripping up negative, sabotaging self-talk. Harnessing the power of not only positive thought, but positive decisions, action, plans and living. It is vast becoming the next big buzz-word, fad and trend – are you in the know?

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Positive Attitude: Why Is It Needed?

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What is locked up or unlocked potentially with, by and through a positive attitude? If you believe the experts and insiders quite a bit! There are many a self-help guru, that grasps that mind, body and soul are one holistic entity, dynamic system, in interplay. When you are not negative (the opposite of positive), your outlook on life is altered, how and what you do changes dramatically and you can simply do more, better, faster,  helping us all to cope more easily, readily and successfully with the daily affairs of life. Being happier and more fulfilled all the way round.

Positive thinking, positive attitude, it brings optimism into your life, future and interactions, pursuits, careers, personal and professional lives. It makes it that much easier to not be anxious, worried, stress or surrounding by self-critique, voices of doubt, questioning, as well as negative thoughts that de-motivate and depress. You will have instantly less to worry about if you are more positive. Is the glass half full or half empty or a little bit of both for you?

If this type of positive thinking becomes part of your life, the way you do and approach things, hurdles become opportunity, problems, promise and tomorrow, well let us just say, that there is a great future that awaits, with many discoveries and wonders to still reveal, even if there are hardships, setbacks along the way.

For once through the use of powerful positive thoughts, decisions, attitudes and actions, there will and can be more constructive changes into and through your life, brokered. It will end up bringing happiness, brightness, hope, joy, optimism and expectation, recapturing some of the human capacity, potential and innocence that we so easily forget is still out there and very much a part of us as a society. You can be developing and strengthening this state of mind pro-actively and deliberately.

There are many ways to work your way towards having or getting a positive attitude type life style

Think positive thoughts most if not all the time. Be constructive and creative in your thought energy and actions, be innovative, think differently , new, from all angles, expect a good or great outcome, embrace success and believe in hope and the power of positive though, self-motivation, goals-achieving, inspiration, happiness and fulfillment, perseverance and determinations, failure as opportunities to learn, not to mull over and relive, chastise yourself over, obstacles as opportunities. Be a champion and flag-bearer of your own potential and abilities. Have self-confidence and find solutions, rather than hindrances and obstacles.  This is toted as the one thing that can and will change your life forever. It is contagious and will also spread to all those around you.

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Power of Positive Attitude

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By Radhanath Swami

A thief can take away our money, disease can take away our health, time will take away our years – everything will be taken away from us inevitably – but there is one thing that no power in creation can take away, and that is our free will.

According to how we use our free will, we become conditioned to think in a particular way, to see the world in a particular way and to act in a particular way. We become conditioned by whatever we associate with using our free will.

For example, you use your free will to smoke cigarettes. When you start it, it tastes horrible, but by your free will you keep doing it until your free will is so much conditioned to surrendering to that experience that you become addicted, and then it practically seems that you do not have a free will anymore.

By this addiction, you are practically being forced. “I have to do it– I must do it,” until finally, “I cannot live without it.” Alcohol abuse and drug addiction is the same thing. You use your free will, you do it enough times, and soon you become so conditioned by the modes of nature that you willingly surrender to that. It now appears that you lost your free will. But in fact, you have not lost it.

So whatever our consciousness is, whatever our way of thinking is, we should understand that it is not our nature eternally, it is our acquired nature. It is the nature of the characteristics that we have created ourselves according to what and who we choose to associate with in our lives, both in this life and in our previous lives.

So when we associate with people who are positive and when we choose to engage in a positive perspective with positive activities then we reconditioned ourselves positively. The special virtue of human life is that we always have a freedom of choice. We may not be able to control our environment, but we do have full control over how we are going to respond and react to that environment.

If we are on a boat, we may not have control over which way the wind blows but we do have control over how we want to control the sails of our boat. How you are going to respond? You have a choice. When very unpleasant things or unfair things come upon us, we can either choose to be a victim of anger or we can choose to learn a lesson; we can choose to complain and bring everybody else down, or we can choose to look for the positive opportunity in that apparently miserable condition.

One person says, “Look at this Rose bush. It is full of thorns.” He keeps on grumbling about the thorns on that Rose bush. Another person rejoices, “Look at this thorn bush. It has a Rose”. They are seeing the same thing. But are they seeing the same thing? No. Similarly, if you have rose-colored glasses, everything will look rose- colored; if you have yellow colored glasses, everything will look yellow; if you have green colored glasses, everything will look green; and if you have clear glasses, you see everything as it is. So yes, according to our state of consciousness, we have certain attitudes and we will perceive reality according to our acquired attitudes. What attitude we choose to adapt in a situation is what is going to determine our consciousness, and our whole perception of the world. http://www.radhagopinath.com http://www.radhanath-swami.info

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