A positive mindset is very easy to obtain, but it takes time and a lot of patience. Your brain has the ability to store and accept two kind of thoughts in it, both positive and negative. Some people harbor more negative thoughts than positive because it is easier to do so, and some people are 50/50 with a constant tug of war per se’ between the two. However, there is something you can do about it.
When you get a thought into your mind, a bad thought or negative thought, you need to think of a positive thought you can pull out of that bad or negative thought that will make that thought, a positive one. For example, the weather outside is raining (negative) but that rain will water your lawn and garden.(positive) If you focus yourself on your garden getting watered and your vegetables becoming big and colorful and your grass becoming greener and stronger, the initial negative thought about the rain will dissipate from your brain. As you keep doing this day in and day out, thought after thought, the thoughts that your mind accepts will start to sway to the positive, where they will start to outweigh the negative.
As time goes on and you repeat this process and implement it into your life as a new way of thinking and storing thoughts, you will find that your thoughts and mindset will become positive in nature and negative thoughts will not even be allowed to enter your mind. They will stay on the outside where you will be able to brush them off very easily and forget they ever existed. In time, all bad emotions will go away as well, anger, resentment, depression, doubt, and fear, to name a few. You will also gain confidence in yourself as a person and learn more about yourself, things you never realized you had, such as your inner strength, passion, desire, willingness and courage.
This is not an overnight process and will take time, maybe a long time. So be patient with this process. Time is the biggest helper that you can have on your side when you institute a change in your life, especially a life altering change such as this. It took me a few years to finally be able to exhibit this way of living on a daily basis, but so far, it is working out quite nicely. I have not yet perfected this process, but the changes in my life and attitude are plentiful and abundant from just altering the way I think.
The only thing is, you must not quit on yourself or give in to negativity. No matter how hard it seems, no matter what circumstances you are in, you must not quit. Never backtrack and take steps backwards in this process because of pressures of your life and daily routine. This is a process in which your life as you know it, can and will, be transformed into more of an enjoyable, happy, and complete life. I can only tell you this because I have experienced it and I live it every day!!!
Today, I will continue to keep an open and positive mind and I will continually learn from it each day I exist….
Best of luck and thank you for reading.
Rich Barnes