Thinking positively is a skill most of us have to work on. We seem to find it easy to think negatively but when the time comes to be more positive, we go to pieces and reckon it’s too hard.
Like every other skill, it takes practice to retrain your brain (because that really is what you’re doing) to think more positive thoughts.
So let’s put together an action plan and help make the world a more positive place, one person at a time.
This is nothing to do with the law of attraction (or, at least not directly) where you put out positive vibes and thoughts to the universe and they fulfill themselves. That can work and the ideas here will help them work more often for you.
Analyse things
If you ever took something to bits as a child (and maybe put it back together again) then you’ll have an idea of what this involves.
Whatever it is you want to think about more positively, take the time to learn about it. There’s plenty of resources online from Wikipedia through to specialist sites for almost any conceivable subject.
You can then dig down and figure out the positive aspects as you go.
Even destructive events like a virus or an earthquake have positive sides, even though most of us don’t ever turn our minds to those things. For instance, the land around a fault line is more fertile and the tremors that occur are essentially the “price” we decide to pay for the danger. The same logic goes for viruses – over time, they can help provide immunity from even nastier things (and not all viruses are nasty to us anyway).
Start digging out the positive side of things as they touch on your daily life. This habit alone will start re-training your brain as it learns to seek out the good in the negative news we’re bombarded with.
Make a daily list of positives
This is very similar to keeping a gratitude journal but instead of things you’re grateful for, you keep a list of things you’ve found a positive side for.
The bee that might sting you also fertilizes crops. The rain that’s drenched you helps keep our food and water supplied. The long winter nights are necessary to have those equally long, balmy, summer days. The worldwide coronavirus lockdown helped clear pollution from city skies and heal the ozone layer.
Those are just off the top of my head as I’m writing. Keep an eye out for the positive side of things. You might have to look under the hood a bit but they’re definitely there. Then write them down in a notebook or journal. The process of physically writing works with our brains a lot more than just typing on a keyboard so go back to your roots and use pen & paper to do this.
Scan your thoughts
We think a lot more than we speak (or at least most of us do!)
Often our thoughts just pass through our minds but some thoughts happen a lot more than others. Those are the ones to pay attention to because they’re nagging you.
If your regular thoughts are mainly negative, it’s time to turn that around. Catch the negative thoughts and, in your mind’s eye, toss them up in the air and watch them come back in a more positive fashion.
It’s easier if you play a game with your mind when you do this – challenge your mind to come back with at least 3 reasons that thought can be flipped round to have a more positive meaning.
At first, there’s a good chance your brain will ache. But it’s like any muscle in your body – it improves the more you use it and that goes especially for those positive thoughts because they’re a bit like a snowball rolling down a hill. Once they start, they’re difficult to stop. Doubly so because once you start thinking more positive thoughts you’re a lot less likely to want to go back to your old ways.
Re-train your subconscious mind
We’re a bit like an iceberg – our conscious mind is a very small part of us.
Our subconscious mind controls almost everything that happens in us.
So working on our subconscious mind is a great way to re-train our complete mind.
Because it’s not easy to talk to our subconscious directly (otherwise we wouldn’t suffer fears and anxieties anywhere near as often) it pays to get help.
The easiest way to do that is with hypnosis as the subtle commands are planted directly into our subconscious mind. I’ve listened to countless hypnosis sessions and the number of times i don’t consciously remember what was said is high yet my reactions and habits have changed so I know they work.
If you’d like to use hypnosis to re-train your brain, click this link and get to work on yourself.
If you ever took something to bits as a child (and maybe put it back together again) then you’ll have an idea of what this involves.
