From Negative to Positive life: Why Transform Your Life by Changing Your Thoughts
Positive Life… What is it? Does it mean living in a big house, having money to fulfill your every desire, having a beautiful good-looking you, becoming a perfect family, or being the envy of the world? If yes, then why are there so many rich people who are sad, unhappy, and depressed? If material things were supposed to bring us happiness then the world should be happier compared to past generations. After all, we have more amenities and more freedom of choice than before yet somehow we aren’t still satisfied.
Or does a positive life mean living your life in a meaningful way, no matter what curveball life throws at you? How do you live life when faced with tough situations?
Jesus said,” Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Your inner beauty should shine in all circumstances. How we behave and react in life is very important.
To have a positive life means to love your life in such a way that your work sets the world on fire. No matter what you face in your life, be it war, discrimination, hardships, etc., your choices, and your reactions to hardships should light up this dark world and people should be wowed by the way you live your life.
Take the example of Mother Teresa. She is one of those ladies who set the world on fire by humbling herself to help the needy. She lived in a foreign land and faced a lot of tough situations to do what she believed in. But she was a light to this world due to her works, her actions, and her attitudes.
People flocked to see her, presidents bowed down before her, and royalty visited her. Why? She was not loaded with expensive branded clothes, botoxed to look young forever or have a party life. She wasn’t an inspirational guru.
Mother Teresa was a simple lady with a simple lifestyle. All she did was to help people and she did this consistently, and faithfully and she changed the world. She lit the dark world with her actions and attitude.
This here is an example of positive life !
But one can’t have a positive life with negative chatter in your brain.
Negative thinking freezes a person and stops them from taking any action. Negative thoughts encourage fear. This leads to inertia. Fear also leads people to do stupid things.
To transform the world, one must have a can-do attitude. One must have hope.
John F. Kennedy dreamt of going to the moon and then technology was made around it to land us on the moon.
Elon Musk dreamed of electric cars and wrote about them in a college essay long before the technology was present.
Mother Teresa strongly felt to help the poor before she became so influential.
You can’t have a dark mind and get positive results. You have to surround yourself with positive people and think forward to get positive life.
Albert Einstein said, “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
We live in our brains. We live through our thoughts. Have you noticed that sometimes while you are so engrossed, thinking about a situation, of a purely fictional nature, your heart rate goes up and it feels like you are experiencing it in real life? It’s as if your body is in one place, but your mind has traveled and lived this experience. This is an example of how our thinking affects the outcome of our lives.
A positive life is an impactful life. Positive life leaves the world a better place. One can’t feed on negativity and expect hopeful outcomes.
Here are some quotes to encourage you to leave negativity and embrace positive life.
- “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
- Everything can be taken from a man but…the last of the human freedoms– to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
- “Be content with what you have. Rejoice in how things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
Lao Tzu
- “The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”
Sharon Salzberg
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
William James
- “If you hear a voice within you say “You cannot paint.” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
Vincent Van Gogh
- It’s only a thought and a thought can be changed.”
Louise Hay
- “The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.”
Iben Dissing Sandahl
- “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
Mother Teresa
- “Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”
Roy T. Bennett
- “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
- “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
- “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”
Helen Keller
