What Is The Power Of A Positive Attitude?

dancingdoll says “people do not have control on their brains, hence negative attitude” then he suggests you read “The Power of Positive Thinking” which is exactly the opposite!
However…people DO have control over their thoughts (which I think is what he meant by brains). After all, you create every one of your thoughts. They don’t come from outside you, you make them up. And if you want to change how you think, you can.
The “power” of positive thinking/attitude is in what you give your mind to work on. Think positive thoughts, and your mind works on solving your problems and living your life in a positive way. (Conversely…think negative thoughts and you give your mind negative ideas to use in solving your problems and living your life. Which wold you rather have? Positive…or negative? Your choice!)
Why do people choose negative over positive? Well, remember that all human behavior is not caused by the past but is directed toward the future. We do/think/feel things IN ORDER TO affect our own personal future. We seek a goal, a result, a pay-off from our behaviors. Some people look for negative pay-offs in life, just as others look for positive results.
Now…if you want to control your thoughts and create a more positive mental attitude for your mind to work on…use the “4-S Method” to control your thoughts and feelings:
1. Stop sign — When you sense a thought you don’t want in your head, in your imagination hold up a huge red stop sign, perhaps being held by a stern-faced crossing guard!
2. Shout it out — Shout at the thought, scream at it, curse at it, yell at it (all in your mind, of course!) until you can sense that it is leaving your mind. (The nice thing about the mind is that it cannot contain more than a single conscious thought at a time.) Treat it like an intruder in your mind, someone you DO NOT want in there! Get angry at it!
3. Substitute — Have handy a sentence or thought to put in the place of the unwanted thought. Make it something strong, something positive, something you really want to believe! (Some people carry such positive or self-encouraging thoughts with them, on 3 x 5 cards.)
4. Sustain — Keep at it. YOU CREATED THE UNWANTED THOUGHT FOR A REASON! (“Psychology of Use” says you think all your thoughts in order to get something from them!) As you kick the unwanted thought out the front door, it will turn around and try to sneak in a window or down the chimney! DON’T LET IT!
Keep repeating the four S’s until you find yourself to be in charge of the thought you don’t want. As you become more comfortable with this, you’ll find you are more in control of your whole mind, and also of your feelings.
By next week at this time, you will be more in control of your thoughts and feelings. (If not, you will have chosen not to, and to continue thinking as you do. It’s your choice.)
– Dr. Bob, Adlerian Psychologist

In my opinion, it varies depending on who you ask, but I think it’s related to a general inflated sense of ego, of self-importance. When you only focus on your own needs, then when problems arise, they seem very big and very negative…you can’t really think about other things. I think most of us go from problem to problem without having a wider view so to speak.
Comparatively, people who have a positive mind-frame, encompass their own problems but also the problems of others, so effectively their own problems don’t seem so big, because they are in fact probably not.

Maybe because things get them down, and they get depressed.BUT………………………… the long run a positive atitude will help you through life, and make you and everyone, and everything in your life better.
If you choose to be negative…things around you will be also.
It doesn’t help anything….just try to be as positive as you possibly can! xoxo

I have a positive attitude, positive my life will get messed up again.
It all depends on how you think,a positive attitude can also be negative ( as my answer above)
Hope this helps and have a good evening hun

Look dude… people do not have control on their brains, hence negative attitude…. for more info read…..
“Power of Positive Thinking” by “Norman Vincent Peale “

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