If your life is not the best you can imagine, perhaps you need an attitude adjustment. It’s not difficult to create a positive attitude but it does take a little effort. That little effort might be all it takes to create a major shift in your life.
- Choose the good thoughts.
What are you telling yourself? Pay attention to your thoughts and how they affect your body. If it doesn’t feel good, choose another thought. You can make yourself sick.
Think about what you want. Think only in terms of the positive. It is far more powerful to be in favor of something positive rather than to be against something negative.
- Praise Yourself
Eliminate negative self-talk! Appreciate your talents and gifts. Acknowledge your skills and abilities; your strengths and positive attributes. Treat yourself with the same loving respect you give to others. Love and accept yourself as you are right now.
Daydream and imagine yourself as the ideal…physically, emotionally, and mentally. If you can see it, you can be it. The mind doesn’t know the difference between what you imagine and what you perceive as reality.
When you see yourself as healthy and successful, your mind becomes comfortable with it. Your confidence is boosted and you are able to achieve your goals.
- Practice Gratitude
Note five things every night that you are grateful for. The essence of all you appreciate is constantly flowing into your reality. “This. I want more of this.”
Grateful people report higher levels of positive emotions, vitality and life satisfaction and lower levels of depression and stress. They tend to exercise more and feel better physically.
Robert Emmons, a psych prof at UC Davis research found that a 21-day gratitude intervention produced high energy, positive moods, greater sense of feeling connected, more optimistic ratings of one’s life and better sleep duration and quality.
- Focus on the solution, not the problem.
Einstein said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by “combinatory play” with “images” in his mind. Thought experiments. Ask a question, Visualize a situation and perform experimental action.
Whatever you are thinking about is literally planning for the future. When you are worrying and doubtful, you are planning for and attracting something you don’t want. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what is thought about. Choose the good thoughts.
- Be present in the Now.
Stay focused on the present moment. Life begins now. Life is happening right now. If you are thinking about the past, you are thinking about it now. If you are thinking about the future, you are thinking about it now.
Life is a series of moments. Each and every moment is an opportunity for choice. Focus on what you can do today, right now.
Breathe. All is well.