The power of positive thinking should have been taught to us from childhood, as this would have prevented many feelings of frustration throughout our lives.
However, it's never too late to improve. For this transformation to take place, you need an inner drive, motivation and discipline to train your mind to think positively until it becomes a natural habit.
I realise that it's not easy to change our negative mental patterns, many of which have been cultivated over many years. Without realising what we were doing, we harboured thoughts of guilt, anger, frustration and resentment. This ended up generating low self-esteem, fears and anxieties.
Those who allow the negative mind to dominate them live in a continuous state of anxiety, agitation and rush. This ends up causing insomnia, feelings of not being able to find happiness in love, not being able to bring up their children well or not being able to progress in their profession.
The negative mind created "traps" and the person becames a prisoner inside their own mind. They lost their spontaneity, joy, creativity and self-confidence.
Take a look at these valuable tips and start applying them in your daily life:
- Thinking positively will always be the best choice: Be aware of your thoughts and when you realise that a negative thought has popped into your head, immediately replace it with a good, positive thought. To do this, you need a lot of mental discipline. You won't be able to do this overnight. Like an athlete or a pianist who practises continuously, train hard with determination and perseverance.
- Don't suffer in anticipation by thinking the worst and claiming that you're being realistic: Realise that this generates useless suffering, for you and for those around you. Being positive is not being optimistic. Being positive is having a clear mind, with discernment, without fuelling negative expectations.
- Complain NO: When you complain, you attract to yourself the negative charge of your own words. Like a magnet, you'll attract everything you don't want. Most things that go wrong start to materialise when we complain.
- To change the habit of complaining, change your words and your tone of voice: Start observing your own behaviour and you'll be surprised how many times you complain on a daily basis. You complain about the weather, our rulers, the country. You complain about the husband who forgot the bed linen, the wife who went shopping unplanned, the child who didn't do his homework, the traffic, the queue at the supermarket, in short, almost everything that happens in your day-to-day life and is beyond your control. In this way, you spend your day irritable and unhappy.
- Accept what happens to you in the present moment: Understand that nothing happens by chance. We are now reaping the rewards of our thoughts, words and actions. Don't rebel against facts and people. Try to understand the lessons of what happens to you and, with patience and courage, overcome your obstacles and challenges. Remember that there is no such thing as failure, only results!
- Only value the things that really matter: Don't waste time on worries or dramas that cause illness and disturb your balance and peace of mind. When you get angry or explode with rage, you poison your body and mind. Instead, develop tolerance and understanding.
- Notice how you speak in a harsh, rough voice, even to the people you love the most: See how this creates disharmony within you, in your work environment, in your home, in your friendships.
- If you need to complain, do it without offence, in a low, soft voice: This requires training the mind and spiritual evolution, because we reflect what we have inside us.
Next week, we'll conclude with 8 more valuable tips for truly achieving peace of mind.
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