I love that question. It started with a friend of mine. We had recently been talking about the Law of Attraction and keeping our minds clear of unnecessary negativity so a more fluid flow of goodness could come out of us and enter us. Say what you will about the Law of Attraction, and especially "The Secret" (and I have said a lot--see my essay on the the Law of Attraction and "The Secret"), but I've found staying non-polyannically positive really does make my life better.
So one day I was definitely not in my happy place, grousing about something or the other to my friend, and she asked, "How are you making today more positive?" It stopped my cranky brain in its looping tracks of doom. Um, huh. Even considering the question started to shift me, re-orienting my whole perspective. And studies back this up--we actually re-wire our brain when we change how we think.
Me, today, I'm wildly behind in a scared, I'm drowning and I suck sort of way. So my positive thing is going to be ticking off three important things on my to-do list. But on Monday, I bought myself daisies.
I lob it to you, and will continue to do so: What are you doing to make today more positive?
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After a very special friend died last week, I practice an attitude of gratitude. It works for me!
I had the opportunity to reach out to two women who are struggling with school today, and to help them to feel more positive about their futures. That helped them, but also helped me because I drew on my own positive expereinces to share with them how major obstacles can be overcome and goals met.
I am studying for a career in Human Services, with a goal of working with disadvantaged women of color, to help them to become empowered and self-actualized. It is my pupose to "pay it forward", for all the blessings and helping hands that I have received in my lifetime. Today, I am remembering where I was, and how far I have come, and that has made this day a positively beautiful one.
I'm negotiating to "win" my positive energy and keep it flowing forward by being more merciful and just. God forgives us for His sake--not because we impressed God. When we change our minds it's because we finally cooperate with God's loving mercy and forgive ourselves and others. Then we become like God in justice and mercy.
This is a big move for me, because it means I can no longer play God. You just let people go and be themselves instead of carrying their burdens and trying to fix them. By mediating and negotiating with the entire universe, the entire spectrum of negativity that people mindlessly throw at the world as worry or concern no longer becomes a burden for me and I am left carefree. If mud splashes on the windshield of life, I can turn on the wiper fluid, sprinkle it and wipe it off or I can fretfully keep driving my car with muddy vision, complaining and lurching into ditches. When I sprinkle some forgiveness and mercy around, sure enough, I see my way clearly. Then I'm back on my way, carefree. Muddy vision is criticism and judgmental reactions--either mine or others. Really, if we saw things like God, you'd have to agree that we can make as many mistakes as we want in life and God still loves us. Isn't it amazing that the people who "dare" to make mistakes have the most success? So criticism has to go. That includes criticizing ourselves for making a mistake, errors in judgment or anything that comes along to teach us about life. Edison kept a record of all his mistakes in a book of experiments as he made his way up the ladder of experiment towards success. Whitewashing our mistakes in the mistaken notion of positive thinking will save us from them is nonsense. We need to look at our mistakes--but with love and scientific learning towards ourselves. It is essential to not only encounter ourselves this way, but to laugh at ourselves, too. "There is a pony in all this horse****!" is one way to look at it.
As "problems" vanish when realization dawns that I always had the power to make them go away, like Dorothy with her red shoes, I can go back to Kansas more powerful and trusting in the way things really work in the universe.
I am utterly thankful for this day that God has given.
Pamala
AH;I feel like i'm back home,when I come to this site.I was wandering all these days.This site keeps me to be back home or rather Godhead.
And about staying positive,according to me is Not to leave God's hand.It'S WE silly idiots that always abandon the protection that God always wants to give us.
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