A Positive Mind
Your prescription to a more fulfilling life.
First published in What Medicine Magazine and Live it Naturally 2006/7
Be the best ‘You’ you can.
Remember that old cliché – is your glass half empty or half full? I’m sure someone has asked you that question at some time in your life. But what does seem at first an annoying cliché can provide some interesting insights into your life and how happy and satisfied you are; your answer is important because how you see things, how you see your life and perceive those things around you ultimately shape the events in your life and your reality.
We all have an inbuilt perception and it’s very powerful too, it helps us achieve all those things we wish for in life, bringing us success where we want it – in work, in love, in everything we do. It’s unfortunate though that most of us are too busy to bother listening to that intuitive and perceptive help cascading from within ourselves; and in effect continue to recreate a life we’ve become accustomed to; a life that’s quite probably well below our full potential. But if you begin to listen, you will discover the real beauty and joy that is your perception, and you’ll discover how you can allow it to evolve within you to suit your changing needs; ultimately creating that happy and successful life you have always craved but found rather elusive.
We’ve spoken of perception before on these pages, but so many of us travel through life in total ignorance of our true nature, our only guiding light being hope – but so often someone or something comes along and switches the damn thing off – this hope, light thing. Then it gets switched on again; then perhaps off it goes yet again! When we’re young we believe we’ll accomplish a great many things and we will have everything we think necessary for our happiness and success in life. We believe we’ll be successful in our chosen career; we’ll be honoured and respected and have perfect, loving relationships with others.
It’s when we grow a little older we begin to experience the infallibility of our dreams, they begin to miscarry and the things we thought would bring us happiness bring other feelings too, sometimes misery and unhappiness. But we do soldier on, there is a light however dim and flickering that shines tantalizingly ahead, ‘it’s going to get better further on’ we tell ourselves; so we shore up the emotional wounds and push on. All this shows in the lines on our faces, each one a separate story of our journey - some good and others not so good. Our travel through life is a constant - a learning experience which will never allow us to achieve all we wish to accomplish, and that is something we should find exciting; because if we are evolving, learning and moving forward then we need to see our evolution as infinite.
However positive your mind may be, however full your glass; at times life will demonstrate the other side; the negatives. But it’s how you react to those situations that are important to your path, the way you grow with experience; and as you perfect the art of positive thinking, you will attract less of those events to yourself.
Now, I seem to have taken a little time to get to the point, and I know when my wife reads this she will remind me of that, but the simple truth is all of our minds can be rather obstinate and have a sneaky way of recreating past events, settling rather too easily and comfortably back in its security zone, that area where it feels most at ease; my point - I wanted to remind you; that you mustn’t let it! I also wanted to take you back over some of the things we’ve spoken about during the past few months. But it’s time to move on now.
.
How often do you take on something, anything and really give it your best? I’ll leave the answer to you and your private thoughts, but how about this – if you forced yourself to do everything as best you could, and I mean ‘absolutely’ the best you could, do you think you may get the best in return? Whatever your answer just let it go for now. I’ve often thought, perhaps in some overtly simplistic way some might say, that if each of us were to be the best human we could be, overnight this world would be transformed. But I can feel a lecture approaching and I’ve only got room for another 800 words, so let’s move on. What if I told you that if you forced yourself to perform at your best, always; over time you would simply get only the best in return. By being at your best you would attract and meet positive and supportive people who enjoyed their time with you and respected you. That by being at your best you attracted the best in every situation you found yourself in, attracting the best outcomes and the right people into your life.
Does this work? Certainly it does, and it’s because, when you are at your best you exude the right vibes, the right energy, and it’s this energy that draws the best people and circumstances to help create absolute success in all areas of your life.
Only you can be you, only you can truly believe in yourself, that you are unique and capable of achieving your greatest dreams. It’s all too easy to get caught in thoughts of what other people might be thinking of you, but by focusing instead on being the best you, you can be, those low level thoughts will simply lose all meaning and rightly so. If you respect who you are and believe in who you are then everyone else will soon start to respect and believe in you too.
To achieve this wonderful you, you need to focus on what you like about yourself, you do have a great number of positive qualities – I know you do! Concentrate on past achievements you have made, however small – or large; then begin the process of really believing you can live the life you want, accomplish those goals you’ve always dreamt of, and that you really can succeed at anything and everything, because the truth is you can! Once you do that, your subconscious mind will begin the process of attracting people and situations that will strengthen what you believe. It’s then things really do begin to change; when others begin to see the best in you.
The interesting thing here, and we’ve spoken of this before is, you attract to you the same qualities in people you display yourself; they pick up your energy.
So if you’re angry, unkind and disrespectful to others, then mostly these are the characteristics many of those close to you will display. But if you want loving, caring people who respect you, then you need to display these same qualities too.
Start with your thoughts. See how they come though to your consciousness. Are they the former or the latter, or a mixture of both depending on how you feel yourself? In the beginning, like all change, being in constant touch with your feelings will not be easy, but as you kick the more negative thoughts into touch you will be sending new positive messages to your subconscious mind. You will then push your subconscious mind to attract those people and situations that will help build your confidence and self-esteem, to respect you for who you are, encourage you, and be supportive too.
Start being the kind of person you really want to be, start being the kind of person you wish to attract into your life – make it a point to do some task really very well every day, then when you feel happy you can easily accomplish this, increase your good deeds to twice daily. Continue to do this and before long you’ll be doing your best all the time; and remember why you are doing this – to attract those you want into your life, those who will love you, respect you and treat you as you treat them; the best you can; and by being at your best all the time you will leave behind all those negative aspects of your life, you will believe in yourself, creating positive energy, a positive mind, with your subconscious mind working for you not against you.
Copyright: Simon Lawrence
Remember that old cliché – is your glass half empty or half full? I’m sure someone has asked you that question at some time in your life. But what does seem at first an annoying cliché can provide some interesting insights into your life and how happy and satisfied you are; your answer is important because how you see things, how you see your life and perceive those things around you ultimately shape the events in your life and your reality.
We all have an inbuilt perception and it’s very powerful too, it helps us achieve all those things we wish for in life, bringing us success where we want it – in work, in love, in everything we do. It’s unfortunate though that most of us are too busy to bother listening to that intuitive and perceptive help cascading from within ourselves; and in effect continue to recreate a life we’ve become accustomed to; a life that’s quite probably well below our full potential. But if you begin to listen, you will discover the real beauty and joy that is your perception, and you’ll discover how you can allow it to evolve within you to suit your changing needs; ultimately creating that happy and successful life you have always craved but found rather elusive.
We’ve spoken of perception before on these pages, but so many of us travel through life in total ignorance of our true nature, our only guiding light being hope – but so often someone or something comes along and switches the damn thing off – this hope, light thing. Then it gets switched on again; then perhaps off it goes yet again! When we’re young we believe we’ll accomplish a great many things and we will have everything we think necessary for our happiness and success in life. We believe we’ll be successful in our chosen career; we’ll be honoured and respected and have perfect, loving relationships with others.
It’s when we grow a little older we begin to experience the infallibility of our dreams, they begin to miscarry and the things we thought would bring us happiness bring other feelings too, sometimes misery and unhappiness. But we do soldier on, there is a light however dim and flickering that shines tantalizingly ahead, ‘it’s going to get better further on’ we tell ourselves; so we shore up the emotional wounds and push on. All this shows in the lines on our faces, each one a separate story of our journey - some good and others not so good. Our travel through life is a constant - a learning experience which will never allow us to achieve all we wish to accomplish, and that is something we should find exciting; because if we are evolving, learning and moving forward then we need to see our evolution as infinite.
However positive your mind may be, however full your glass; at times life will demonstrate the other side; the negatives. But it’s how you react to those situations that are important to your path, the way you grow with experience; and as you perfect the art of positive thinking, you will attract less of those events to yourself.
Now, I seem to have taken a little time to get to the point, and I know when my wife reads this she will remind me of that, but the simple truth is all of our minds can be rather obstinate and have a sneaky way of recreating past events, settling rather too easily and comfortably back in its security zone, that area where it feels most at ease; my point - I wanted to remind you; that you mustn’t let it! I also wanted to take you back over some of the things we’ve spoken about during the past few months. But it’s time to move on now.
.
How often do you take on something, anything and really give it your best? I’ll leave the answer to you and your private thoughts, but how about this – if you forced yourself to do everything as best you could, and I mean ‘absolutely’ the best you could, do you think you may get the best in return? Whatever your answer just let it go for now. I’ve often thought, perhaps in some overtly simplistic way some might say, that if each of us were to be the best human we could be, overnight this world would be transformed. But I can feel a lecture approaching and I’ve only got room for another 800 words, so let’s move on. What if I told you that if you forced yourself to perform at your best, always; over time you would simply get only the best in return. By being at your best you would attract and meet positive and supportive people who enjoyed their time with you and respected you. That by being at your best you attracted the best in every situation you found yourself in, attracting the best outcomes and the right people into your life.
Does this work? Certainly it does, and it’s because, when you are at your best you exude the right vibes, the right energy, and it’s this energy that draws the best people and circumstances to help create absolute success in all areas of your life.
Only you can be you, only you can truly believe in yourself, that you are unique and capable of achieving your greatest dreams. It’s all too easy to get caught in thoughts of what other people might be thinking of you, but by focusing instead on being the best you, you can be, those low level thoughts will simply lose all meaning and rightly so. If you respect who you are and believe in who you are then everyone else will soon start to respect and believe in you too.
To achieve this wonderful you, you need to focus on what you like about yourself, you do have a great number of positive qualities – I know you do! Concentrate on past achievements you have made, however small – or large; then begin the process of really believing you can live the life you want, accomplish those goals you’ve always dreamt of, and that you really can succeed at anything and everything, because the truth is you can! Once you do that, your subconscious mind will begin the process of attracting people and situations that will strengthen what you believe. It’s then things really do begin to change; when others begin to see the best in you.
The interesting thing here, and we’ve spoken of this before is, you attract to you the same qualities in people you display yourself; they pick up your energy.
So if you’re angry, unkind and disrespectful to others, then mostly these are the characteristics many of those close to you will display. But if you want loving, caring people who respect you, then you need to display these same qualities too.
Start with your thoughts. See how they come though to your consciousness. Are they the former or the latter, or a mixture of both depending on how you feel yourself? In the beginning, like all change, being in constant touch with your feelings will not be easy, but as you kick the more negative thoughts into touch you will be sending new positive messages to your subconscious mind. You will then push your subconscious mind to attract those people and situations that will help build your confidence and self-esteem, to respect you for who you are, encourage you, and be supportive too.
Start being the kind of person you really want to be, start being the kind of person you wish to attract into your life – make it a point to do some task really very well every day, then when you feel happy you can easily accomplish this, increase your good deeds to twice daily. Continue to do this and before long you’ll be doing your best all the time; and remember why you are doing this – to attract those you want into your life, those who will love you, respect you and treat you as you treat them; the best you can; and by being at your best all the time you will leave behind all those negative aspects of your life, you will believe in yourself, creating positive energy, a positive mind, with your subconscious mind working for you not against you.
Copyright: Simon Lawrence