Your Dominant Thoughts – How to Take Advantage of Them

By Gary Simpson

Not only do we become what we think about, we do what we think about. Whether your thoughts are positive or negative your mind will act on them. If we are directed by our dominating thoughts, why not implant our minds with things that will benefit us?
Learn how you can do this…

Self belief is a wonderful thing.

I know from my own life experiences that whenever I have been filled with dread or doubt I am unable to perform at a satisfactory level. Just the other day I was using a claw hammer and a lever to dismantle a packing crate. At the time I was making quite a noise hammering away when my wife came down to the workshop to see what I was doing.

Jokingly, I quipped: “I haven’t hit my fingers with the hammer yet!” Guess what I did within minutes of uttering those words? Yep. Bang. Yeeowch! Actually, I didn’t say that. It was something more colorful.

You see, in retrospect, what I did was plant the seed in my mind that I was going to hit my fingers with the hammer. My mind set about fulfilling the thought.

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How to Avoid Negative Thinking

By Remez Sasson

Smiling hspace=It is no secret that negative thinking is part of almost everyone. Sometimes, there are more negative thoughts, and sometimes less, depending upon the moods, and external events.

Unpleasant situations, problems and difficulties arise in everyone’s lives, and these events cause negative thinking. Quite often, you might not be aware of the thoughts you are thinking, and can get easily immersed with negative thoughts and negative moods.

It would be a good strategy to avoid negative thinking. There are various techniques you may use to avoid negative thinking.

Here are a few techniques for avoiding negative thinking:

1. Try to be aware of your thoughts. It is usual to think in an automatic way, hardly aware of what you are thinking. If you strive to become watchful of your thoughts, you will know when you are thinking negatively, and then, the next step, of avoiding them, will become easier.

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Is It Difficult to Think Positively?

By Remez Sasson

Do you think it is difficult to think positively?

When you try to think positively, do all kinds of negative thoughts fill your mind?

Do you find it difficult to wish yourself good things?

Do you find it difficult to wish yourself success and happiness?

Does your mind refuse to think positively?

Do you feel and believe that success belongs only to other people?

Do you possess such a low self-esteem that you think and believe that you cannot achieve anything in your life?

Do you think positive thinking is useless, unpractical and leads nowhere?

You can change the way you think, but this requires some effort on your part.

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How to Get Your Head Above Water and Keep It There

By Remez Sasson

You must have asked yourself many times, how to survive when there are financial problems, and how to get your head above water, and keep it there.

Positive thinking and visualization are a good solution, but the problem is that when you are in financial problems, and when there is a shortage of money, it is not so easy to think positively. Worries keep popping up, especially when you see the bills in front of you.

The solution is of course to be alert, and constantly, day after day, replace your worries and negative thinking with positive thinking.

Better still, to teach yourself positive thinking during the goods times, when it is easier to think positively, and much better it is, to learn and train yourself from an early age, but this is not always practical or possible.

How to get your head above water and keep it there?

Someone has written at the forum:

“It feels like my life has been on a downward spiral. I struggle to keep my head above water financially, and just as things seem to get back in line something else happens.

I realize that the most obvious answer is to stop worrying… but it’s not that easy when you see the bills in front of you, and you have no idea how to cover them.”

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Quotes of Optimism

What is optimism?

The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having “hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favourable or hopeful view.”

Optimism is also defined as:
1. The tendency to expect the best and see the best in all things
2. Hopefulness; confidence

Here are a few optimism quotes:

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
- William James

There are no hopeless situations, only people who are hopeless about them.
- Dinah Shore

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
- Alice Potter

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.
- Bo Bennett

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
- Mary Lou Retton

What do you think? You are invited to add your comments.

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