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20 Ways Of Training The Mind
On Positive Thinking
Rene Graeber
1. Start the day with cheers and smiles.
Your whole day depends on how you greet the morning. Therefore,
as long as you welcome it with energy and high spirits, everything
will go okay. You don't want the rest of the day to get ruined,
do you? Come on, smile! It doesn't cost anything but is worth
everything.
2. Ask for guidance.
Only God knows what we will be having on the day ahead of
us. He will surely appreciate a few minutes of praying and
asking for guidance from Him. Also, have faith on Him that
He is more than willing to grant our requests as long as it
is for our own good. With God as our guide, we don't have
any reason not to say and believe in the thought that I can
do this. I can make it through this day. Nothing is impossible.
After all, God is with me.
3. Plan the day ahead.
To avoid mistakes that will cause negative output on your
daily activities that will later on become negative thoughts,
it is better to plan your work first; after which, work your
plan. Make sure today's goals are clearly defined and absorbed
by your mind. This can be done even before you get out of
bed each day, just so immediate addressing issues as they
arise can be avoided.
4. Keep your mind focused on important things.
Set goals and priorities for what you think and do. Visualize
practicing your actions. Develop a strategy for dealing with
problems. Concentrate on things that need to be taken seriously,
but at the same time, take time to relax and enjoy. This way,
favorable results may take place.
5. Be detached from the outcome.
They say that life is like a Ferris Wheel; sometimes, you're
on the top, and sometimes at the bottom. This means that there
will be times in our lives where some things would not turn
out according to what we want them to be. Don't be annoyed
if you don't get what you desire. However, do your best in
everything you do. Only, don't get too attached on the probable
results that may only cause disappointments and upsets.
6. Try new things and challenges.
See learning and changes as opportunities. There's nothing
wrong in changing attitudes and routines as long as they are
for the good and improvement of who you are and what you do.
Doing new things may include considering more options for
a project, meeting new people from different places, asking
lots of questions. Through this, the flow of thinking is directed
to improvement and negative thoughts will be easily eradicated.
7. Balance your desires.
We live in a place of opposites and duality - gain and loss,
pleasure and pain, light and dark, male and female, love and
hate. This is how the cycle of life goes. We can never have
all the good things in life at the same time. In love, there
will always be someone who gets hurt. In wealth, there will
always be people who will not be fortunate enough. Measure
and moderation is the primary key.
8. Be realistic.
Make sure that what you want is something possible. Hoping
for something to happen which would never really materialize
in real life will only bring you disappointment. For instance,
you wish to lose weight. Therefore, you have to set a goal
and act on appropriate measures within a period of time to
achieve what you wish. Hey, No one can get slimmer overnight.
9. Keep track of your mental and physical health.
This way, you will know how far you can keep believing. Know
yourself. There is no other person in the world who can tell
who you really are. Know your passions, favorites, and principles.
Spend some quality time by yourself - reading, listening to
music, day dreaming, and the likes. If you know yourself completely,
you will be aware of how far can you go physically, mentally,
and emotionally.
10. Love yourself.
Before you expect for other people to love and adore you,
it is always you who needs to love yourself first. Make a
positive commitment to yourself, to learning, work, family,
friends, nature, and other worthwhile causes. Praise yourself
as much as you praise others once in a while. When you start
feeling confident about yourself, positive thoughts will naturally
flow to your mind.
11. Laugh.
Enjoy. Have fun. Looking at the brighter side of life starts
with entertainment and pleasure. Laughter is the best medicine,
so they say. Whether your illness is physical or emotional,
a few laughs and giggles can help you throw away heavy baggage
such as anxiety, disappointment, or nervousness.
12. Keep a list of your goals and actions.
Familiarize yourself with things you want to accomplish and
with the ways you must undertake to complete them. By the
time you are certain of what you want to do and carry out
in your life, a stronger mind and will power will exist within
you.
13. Associate with positive people.
In every classroom, work place, or simply anywhere you go
where there are groups of people, look for optimistic ones.
There are lots of them, I'm sure. Associate with them, hang-out,
discuss matters. They can help you build self-confidence and
self-esteem.
14. Make it a habit to ask questions.
This is not equal to dumbness and ignorance; rather, it is
associated with seeking more information and understanding
matters clearly. With more knowledge, there is also more power.
15. Be open.
We have to accept the fact that we don't know everything.
And that we are continuously learning in every place we go,
with every people we meet as everyday passes. We should not
close our minds to new ideas and information that comes our
way. Our mind is so spacious that it is impossible to fill
it up completely. Thus, we should accept worthy things that
may help us become better and brighter persons.
16. Have trust in other people.
Although it may seem difficult and risky to give trust to
just any people, when you believe in them or confident on
what they are doing for you, doubts and negative judgments
on them will be unnecessary. Also, it will bring harmonious
relationships between you and your colleagues.
17. Forgive and forget.
Mistakes and failures are the root causes of negative thinking.
If we somehow learn to let go of all the pain, agony, and
fear we try to keep inside our hearts and minds, then there
will be nothing more to block our clear thoughts from being
expressed. Forgive yourself for committing mistakes and forget
these mistakes.
18. Learn from experiences.
Learning inside the classroom is different from learning outside
it. In school, one learns the lesson first before taking an
exam; while in real life, one takes the test first before
learning the lesson. This test in the real life is our experiences.
If we failed in that test, i.e. the experience is not so good,
we study the situation and learn the lesson. From here, we
can avoid committing the same mistake twice.
19. Count your blessings.
Focus on what you have rather than what you don't have. Absence
of our desires will only bring discontentment and disappointment
that will only waste our time. Instead, be thankful and appreciative
with all the blessings we receive.
20. Kiss your worries goodbye.
At the end of everyday, before going to sleep, there is no
need to keep bad experiences and unhappy moments that had
happened in the day within you. Let them go, throw them out
of the window and kiss them goodbye. Dream sweetly. As a new
day unfolds, new hope arises. Keep believing. Always have
faith.
Do you believe that you can attain anything your heart desires?
I'm telling you, you can! Rene Graeber uses and teaches
will power and mind control for more than 10 years. Visit
his website and learn how to unleash your full potential of
your mind - just visit http://www.will-power-mind-control.com
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