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Staying Positive in a Negative World
Personal empowerment advocate, Candi Parker, gives you steps you can take right now to make a difference in your life.
Being positive is a state of mind.
How positive are you?
It can be difficult to be, and stay, in a 'good' mood when events all around you are causing negative emotions to rise up and present themselves. We are constantly bombarded with salacious stories, horrific events, and fear mongering through the media and through word of mouth. Stored up negativity distorts our thinking and disconnects us from our bodies and from other people. It's hard to stay positive in these circumstances..
But staying positive in a negative world is easier than you think. First you have to decide that this is what you want to do. You must make a choice to practice being positive.
Old painful events from the past can cause irrational functioning in the present. When we reclaim our ability to feel positive and develop the ability to release any buildup of negativity, we will then be in a position to function in the world with a clearer mind and a happier heart. Your mind is actually shaping the world around you. What you think about you bring about.
When you feel negative you tend to focus on what is wrong, always looking for the flaw. There is also a tendency to recount, over and over, negative events and situations with anyone who will commiserate with you. You may look for people to listen as you download all the negative emotions you can't quite keep inside anymore.
When you feel positive more often than not you see the good in situations. You tend to look for, and talk about, funny, happy and positive things. You feel more at peace with the world around you.
When you feel negative you tend to hold yourself expressing this, your shoulders may be hunched causing tightness, a frown or a scowl on your face, your arms may be crossed and you may be hunched over a little and always looking for what is wrong.
When you feel positive the feeling is more expansive, in your stance, how you hold yourself. When you are more positive you hold your head up higher, you stand up straighter, you may have a relaxed face or a smile, you are more open. Being that way allows your body to function better, more properly. The flows are better which means better health, and a better feeling about your health.
If you find that you are having difficulty getting into or maintaining a positive attitude, here are some things you can do right now to help shift you...
Since you are the one, the only one, who decides what you think and feel, then you are the one with the power to change your life.
No one can do it for you. Your positive vibration comes from you... and only you.
Shift happens. :) It only takes a few minutes of focus to shift your thoughts, which will then shift your vibration.
Shift does happen. It all depends on your thinking. It all depends on where you are coming from and your thoughts. You see, whatever you are thinking is what you are creating in your life and your body and your feelings. If you are thinking about something negative you are going to create more negative feelings. When you have negative feelings you actually attract more things for you to feel negative about. It's a paradox.
Do a test. If you want to prove me wrong, or prove me right, do a test for yourself.
Try these things, these changes in your life, and see if they make a difference.
Hey, if they don't make a difference you don't have to keep doing them. But, I'll tell you, when you start feeling better you are probably going to want to stay that way, you are going to keep on thinking positive thoughts, surrounding yourself in positive environments, and creating positive circumstances.
Everything will change…just by changing your thoughts. Try it for 30 days.
But staying positive in a negative world is easier than you think. First you have to decide that this is what you want to do. You must make a choice to practice being positive.
Old painful events from the past can cause irrational functioning in the present. When we reclaim our ability to feel positive and develop the ability to release any buildup of negativity, we will then be in a position to function in the world with a clearer mind and a happier heart. Your mind is actually shaping the world around you. What you think about you bring about.
When you feel negative you tend to focus on what is wrong, always looking for the flaw. There is also a tendency to recount, over and over, negative events and situations with anyone who will commiserate with you. You may look for people to listen as you download all the negative emotions you can't quite keep inside anymore.
When you feel positive more often than not you see the good in situations. You tend to look for, and talk about, funny, happy and positive things. You feel more at peace with the world around you.
When you feel negative you tend to hold yourself expressing this, your shoulders may be hunched causing tightness, a frown or a scowl on your face, your arms may be crossed and you may be hunched over a little and always looking for what is wrong.
When you feel positive the feeling is more expansive, in your stance, how you hold yourself. When you are more positive you hold your head up higher, you stand up straighter, you may have a relaxed face or a smile, you are more open. Being that way allows your body to function better, more properly. The flows are better which means better health, and a better feeling about your health.
If you find that you are having difficulty getting into or maintaining a positive attitude, here are some things you can do right now to help shift you...
- Go on a news fast. Stop listening to the news. If you haven't noticed, the daily news is very skewed towards negativity and sensationalism. If something disastrous is headed your way, trust me, someone will tell you about it.
- Find positive material to put around you. Use positive messages that resonate with you. Put them on post-its or cardboard and place them everywhere you will notice them like the refrigerator, on the mirrors, next to the toilet, next to your bed, etc.
- Be an uplifter. Look for ways to uplift others. Because when you uplift other people it bounces right back to you and it lifts you.
- Clear your vibration and your environment. You can meditate, do yoga, get a massage...whatever will give you a peaceful mood. And clear clutter for clarity. Clean your environments and put a plant or two around as they give off oxygen.
- Do something that makes you laugh. Watch comedy or funny movies. Find a laughter yoga group in your area. Go to laughteryoga.org. to find a place near you and learn more about laughter yoga. Call up your funny friends. How many times a day do you smile? Physically, smiling releases endorphins and dopamine into your system, which creates a feeling of well-being. It is good for your body, mind, and spirit.
- Put you bare feet on the ground sometime today, and everyday. Can you imagine how ungrounded you are when you are way up in the office buildings and surrounded by electromagnetic frequencies from all the computers. The way to negate that kind of energy in your body is to go barefoot in the grass, put you feet on the ground. And if you live in a city, go barefoot on the cement. You are closer to the earth that way and you still get those good vibrations from the earth. Or you can soak your feet in water.
- Start a Gratitude Journal - get a notebook and just start writing down all of the things you are grateful for in the moment and if you can't think of anything just write 'thank you'. If gratitude is difficult for you, then take your focus off of what is lacking in your life. Think about what you have, your loved ones, your health, your work. Writing in a gratitude journal will help you to focus on the good in your life, even in the difficult times. When you are in a grateful state of mind you are in a positive vibration.
- Go outside for a walk, being in natural air is rejuvenating to the body.
- Listen to some music that really appeals to you and makes you feel good inside. Everyone is different. Only you know what makes you feel good.
- Practice random acts of kindness, even something as simple as a laugh, a hug, a thank you.
- Read. Get books on becoming a more positive person. Read as much as you can and implement what resonates with you. You can also go online and Google positive thinking or go on Youtube and find inspirational videos to watch. Surround yourself with positive content. If you were to get only one book, then get The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.
Since you are the one, the only one, who decides what you think and feel, then you are the one with the power to change your life.
No one can do it for you. Your positive vibration comes from you... and only you.
Shift happens. :) It only takes a few minutes of focus to shift your thoughts, which will then shift your vibration.
Shift does happen. It all depends on your thinking. It all depends on where you are coming from and your thoughts. You see, whatever you are thinking is what you are creating in your life and your body and your feelings. If you are thinking about something negative you are going to create more negative feelings. When you have negative feelings you actually attract more things for you to feel negative about. It's a paradox.
Do a test. If you want to prove me wrong, or prove me right, do a test for yourself.
Try these things, these changes in your life, and see if they make a difference.
Hey, if they don't make a difference you don't have to keep doing them. But, I'll tell you, when you start feeling better you are probably going to want to stay that way, you are going to keep on thinking positive thoughts, surrounding yourself in positive environments, and creating positive circumstances.
Everything will change…just by changing your thoughts. Try it for 30 days.
