Time For Us To Plant Our Seed of Positive Thinking

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t some point in our life, we’ve probably heard about the power of positive thinking. Basically, this is a theory that contends if you believe good things will happen to us, there will be some sort of cataclysmic shift in the energies surrounding us which will actually cause good things to happen to us. For as many people who believe in the power of positive thinking, there are many more who believe it’s all a bunch of New Age pop psychology drivel or sugar-coated fluff and as no place in the real world we live today, whatever the ‘Real World’ means.

“The biggest tree in the world grows from a seed you can hold between two fingers. That is why in every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.”

For us to begin to be able to tune in to the power of positive thinking, we should probably start small- particularly if we don’t believe it will work. It’s one thing to tell yourself, “Tomorrow, when I wake up in the morning, I won’t hit snooze a dozen times and feel drowsy for the rest of the day,” and quite another to tell yourself, “Tomorrow, when I wake up in the morning, I’ll be living independently wealthy and living in a mansion.”

(Unless, of course, you are in fact independently wealthy and living in a mansion at the moment; in which case you might try to think your way into ownership of a small country.) No Really!

The process of making positive thinking work for us begins with destruction, or at least a mild shift in our thought structure. In order to make room for any new methods and ideas to come into our lives in a healthy and beneficial way for us, we must first tear out all the old negativity patterns we’ve been building throughout our life. For some, this can be a gradual process: as you witness positive thinking work for you, one small step at a time, you will slowly clear out those good-things-only-happen-to-other-people thoughts, and be able to cultivate the seeds of change.

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What’s holding you back?

Even those who fully embrace the theory of positive thinking may feel some qualms over entrusting their lives to mere thought. There are many possibilities that could be producing weeds in our mental garden, and the best way to get rid of a weed is to yank it out, roots and all. In this section we’ll discuss some of the most common stumbling blocks I have faced and people encounter on the road to positive thinking, as well as how to overcome them and lay the foundation for a healthy life outlook.

Self-Esteem: Catching the I-Love-Me Disease

This one is a big one for so many of us, even before we have started planting our positive garden. For most of us existence, self-esteem was an unheard-of notion akin to the theories of those heretics who believed the world was flat.

By the way is it flat or round? I guess we will never truly know. Then why are so many of us fighting over theories we can never prove, with our latest science and technology, we have been given to use.

But positive thinking has been proven over and over again with advice science.

The term “self-esteem” – defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “Pride in oneself; self-respect” – made its way into the common public awareness during the, 60s and 70s as a catch-all term to describe the essence of parenting problems. The “old ways” of parenting were pronounced barbaric and damaging to the budding self-esteem of our youth, and many parents fearful of raising unhappy, ill-adjusted children took advice that led to a generation of children with high self-esteem…so high it eclipsed personal responsibility and created a “me first” mentality.

On the other hand, most of us are taught that thinking highly of ourselves is a vain, selfish and undesirable trait. Advice telling us to feel better about ourselves and occasionally put us first seems counterintuitive at best. After all, isn’t self-love the first step on the road to Ego Central? Many people want to feel good about themselves, but guilt too often rears its ugly head and stops healthy self-esteem from developing. Because of these conflicting viewpoints, self-esteem is a tricky little emotion to manipulate. It’s important to strike a balance between modesty and greed. It takes practice to convince yourself that you are a worthwhile and deserving person, while at the same time keeping in mind that you’re not the centre of the universe. Though it may sound impossible, it’s actually simple to accomplish.

Join me on my next article where we’ll discuss on the topic on positive thinking some more, on till next time.

Much love.