How to Be More Positive
Overcoming Negativity - How to Be More Positive and Live a Positive Life
If you can control and manage your thoughts by getting rid of negativity, you can stay positive. If you won't allow outside influences and internal chatters to trigger negative related emotional states, you can maintain your optimism most of the time.
Your thoughts are in the form of mental pictures and self talk. Without having to do anything consciously, you will feel a certain emotion based on what you see, read or hear. If you dwell on an emotion, it will intensify and move to a higher state. So if something or someone trigger the feeling of anger in you and you allow that emotion to linger, it will become worse and will turn to fury.
How to Be More Positive No. 1 - Get Rid of Negativity
You can control and manage your thoughts and emotions by interrupting your thought patterns. Make deliberate attempts to catch your feelings by stopping your thoughts as often as you can and especially when you start to feel a certain emotion. Ask yourself what you are feeling and what triggered it. If it is a negative emotion, determine how you would rather be feeling. If it is a good feeling, anchor it and remember it so that you can bring back the pleasant emotion to your mind whenever you feel bad.
You can also change your thinking pattern by noticing and monitoring your self talk. Stop the self criticism or negative internal chatters by replacing them with positive affirmations or statements. Challenge the self talk by asking yourself why you believe a thing as true? Who told you? Did you check the sources? Do you have enough facts or evidence? Get rid of them by telling yourself that they aren't true anymore and that you now choose to think differently.
How to Be More Positive No. 2 - Have a Sense of Purpose for Living
Do you know what is your purpose or personal mission in life? Without a sense of purpose, you will drift along in life and allow anything or anyone to influence your way of thinking. To find out your sense of purpose, ask what you want to do with your life, what brings meaning to your life and how you want to be remembered after your death? Answer the questions honestly.
How to Be More Positive No. 4 - Set Goals
Goals are different that purpose. Goals motivate you to wake up in the morning. They are the road maps to help you achieve success in life. They challenge you and if you persistently take action to accomplish your goals, they help increase your confidence, self image and self esteem.
Set long term, medium term and short term goals so that you always have something to work on and to motivate you as long as you live. Imprint the goals in your mind to maintain your focus of attention. Whenever you feel down, think of your goals.
How to Be More Positive No. 5 - Focus on the Positive
What you see on the outside is a reflection of what's going on inside you. If you push yourself to see something good or positive in a person, a thing or situation, you will see it. If you insist that there is nothing positive about something or someone, just let it go.
People can subtly influence your thinking. Bad news contributes to negativity and pessimism. Don't read or listen to them. So choose your circle of friends and what goes inside your head wisely.
How to Be More Positive No. 6 - Take Care of Your Health
It's difficult to stay positive when you are sick and tired. So take good care of your health. Eat nutritious food and supplement your diet with dietary supplements if you aren't getting enough to avoid deficiency and reduce the risk of major illness.
Avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Go out and stay active by exercising and involving in healthy recreational activities. Use more of your time in nature and observing than watching soap opera and reality series. Allocate time for mind-body exercises such as relaxation exercise and meditation to relax your muscles and mind and alter your brain waves. These healthy physical and mental activities alter the neurochemicals in your brain to make you feel good and stay positive.
How to Be More Positive No. 7 - Broaden Your Knowledge
Limited knowledge results in limited thinking and narrow mindedness. Open your mind and expand your knowledge. Begin to read more books, listen, watch and observe more and go out and meet people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Try new or different things especially those things that you have been afraid to do. The new experiences will help you eliminate limiting beliefs, change your mindset and increase your confidence.
How to Be More Positive No. 6 - Gratitude Journal
One of the ways to stay positive is to count your blessings. Make it a daily practice to list down the things that you are grateful for in your life. This exercise is helpful because it makes you learn to appreciate what you already have. It reduces your habit or attitude of complaining and comparing.
Positive Qualities
- Nonjudgmental
- Emotionally intelligent
- Accountable
- Self control
- Optimism
- Imaginative
- Forgiving
Additional Resource
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
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