Realize the power of positive thought

You can decide to view the world differently than other people.  You evolve to define who they are.  As you grow to identify opportunities quickly, you may view yourself as a non-conformist, and thrive on challenges.  If you feel this way, you realize the power of positive thought:

1) Recognize a need in yourself to find your own way.

2) Desire to abandon predictability and what you think you know.

3) Assume you can sustain yourself out of what you love.

4) Realize you can take control of your destiny.

5) Are drawn to a vision of choice, independence, and freedom

6) Seek to be a pioneer and transform vision into reality.

Real thinking is for anyone who listens

What is positive thinking? Its the view what you choose to get out of life will be good for you. Being in touch with yourself means sensing your thoughts create your feelings. Expressing them enables you to realize what's unjustified. Denying feelings just magnifies them. As you ignore fear and anger, they grow. If you don't express discomfort as you go along and work through it, you don't permit yourself to master it. Real commitment is being honest with yourself about motives for your feelings.

The Course of Miracles teaches you don't have to purify your thoughts to get rid of anger, guilt or other disturbing feelings. Pretending your positive without sorting through the other stuff isn't helpful. People don't attack you with words. You only imagine they attack as a reminder that you're not dealing with emotions you put aside. You made past decisions yourself, and you can decide differently this time.  It gets easier to think positively as you take responsibility for what you believe.

Real situations are those where it doesn't matter how things turn out.  It doesn't matter what happened in your past, or what you thought before.  The time comes where you realize that all your perceived problems are your own projections and hallucinations. These issues come up repeatedly as second, third, fourth or whatever chances, simply to give you opportunities to learn and rise above them.

People will say they aren't in your life to change you. You may think you don't enter the lives of others to change them. Yet, relationships and others situations come up because you're meant to learn from them.  Are you optimistic about each one? You have been drawn to conditions because you have decided wrongly before and you aren't yet on a level of inner peace. Develop gratitude. You need your own appreciation to move ahead. Real positive thinking comes from listening to yourself.

Consistency begins with you

Many people will exert effort to focus more on positive thinking. They hear it's a worthwhile thing to do and decide to "give it a go." And yet, people will also say they find that it can be challenging not to fall back into previous, negative habits. If being consistent is key, then the question you would best ask yourself is what sorts of strategies would be helpful? Make a list.

1) Listen to yourself.  How often do you utter negatives, contraditions and tentatives such as, "not bad," "awfully good," "terribly delicious,""try" or "not sure"?  You may benefit from more vigilence. Think before you speak. Which words do you use? You send subliminal messages to yourself and others. When you're serious about being more positive, you will refrain from using words that reinforce the opposite. Ask someone to point words out in case you miss them. Every word counts.

2) Distinguish between patterns you desire and don't desire.  Do you have an issue with mood swings? word usage? attitude? destructive mindset? specific behaviors in specific settings? In order to make a conscious change, you really need to have a conscious understanding of issues that bother you.  Identify conditions, people or events that trigger patterns you like or don't. All forms of mental transformation hinge on this basic understanding at the level of perception.

3) Respond constructively. As you learn to discern the kind of thinking you wish to nurture in yourself, its vital not to reprimand yourself if you deviate from the desired path. Such a reaction would focus on negativity, and this is precisely the kind of pattern you aim to eliminate. Rather than wonder if your confusing right- or wrong-minded thinking, simply respond to all your efforts with desire to heal, correct and move forward. Sense your progress. It will come when you're truly ready.

Ignore distractions

Positive thinking is a skill you can nurture inside yourself.  This requires that you don't permit negative feelings to control your mind.  People you meet may seem behave in ways that aim to provoke you.  How do you react? Do you typically find yourself on the defensive or, do you brush off negative comments, stunts and vibes, because you see beyond the test to what you gain?

Many people recall when others have "rubbed them the wrong way," swindled them or, done something which evoked hard feelings. How do you choose to see these kinds of situations?  You can see them as a challenge or, as a means for you to reframe what you might of thought was initially important.  Positive thinking is all about learning to reframe events and see the benefits.

Make a point of reflecting back on at least two situations which have distracted you from your desired focus or peace of mind.  Consider your initial impressions, impulsive reactions and what you would or wouldn't do again if there was "a next time."  How will you plan ahead? Take the time you need to learn lessons. 

As you decide to percieve your life as a process of learning experiences, then you'll discern new opportunities to make new kinds of choices.  Optimism is a choice.  Hope is a choice.  Living and learning is another choice. Your life can be what you make of it.  Ignore distractions that lead you off your desired path.  Firgure out what it is and prosper.  Attitude sets the stage.   

Open your mind

Whatever you dream, and how you think from this point forward, will have a direct impact on whether or not this thing you envision will evolve so you experience it.  You may underestimate the power you exert over your own destiny.  Open your mind to positive thinking.

It's time you believe this goal was more than possible.  You need to act as if its already in the process of becoming reality. The minute you catch yourself doubting that, the moment you realize your mind ponders whether its is impossible, this simply reveals that you are in the process of learning what is really possible.

Tell yourself that thinking leads to action.  This relates to the orientation of your free will.  That is imperative to remember.  To what extent you allow yourself to nurture faith, and to express confidence, is what determines the slant of your thinking.  Your emotions attract specific conditions.  The events that unfold will simply reinforce what you already know in your mind.  Remember what you might have initially chosen to forget.  Anything is possible for you in life.