Positive Thinking

Positive Thinking ! What is that means ? A lot of people speak about this mantra, when they speak about creating positive attitudes, healthy mind and a happy life. But, what's the positive ways of making our thoughts?!

"Positive" - Means advantageous or good. So, do we mean thinking good or thinking to one's own advantage ?! Thinking one's own advantage may be taken to be a bit selfish then the entire idea of positive thinking becomes an unhealthy practise. Then, what else is the meaning ?!

'Positive Thinking' means thinking for a good to happen, the way of thinking which puts us in an advantageous position, but not resultant of a merely selfish attitude.

Ok, lets get into easy terms. Think that you are going for an interview, what do you think about the outcomes? We all have an internal fear and it makes us think " Will I clear the interview? ". This makes us loose our self confidence, makes us small and eventually lead to us loosing the interview. This is negative thinking, thinking that we will/may fail, thinking what will happen if we lose and keep thinking that way. So, positive thinking is.. thinking that we can perform, thinking we will able to deliver our best. This improves our self confidence and thereby makes us to win situations.

Let us take another practical situation which we might have encountered certainly in some point of our lives. Think... You ring up your friend. You keep ringing to tell an important news ( according to you! ). But, your friend is held up in some kind of business, which you have no clue of what it is. You think your friend is purposely not attending your phone. Or else worse, your friend picks the phone and barks at you for ringing up and cuts the call. What do we all think at such a situation ?!

Most of us think that he is doing purposely and feel hurt. we get into lots of wild stories and conclusions, which have a negative impact in our vision about our innocent fellow. Next, as a result of our sour encounter, we decide not to speak to him thereof. This poor guys tries ringing you up after a couple of days when things have calmed down at his end but you are still burning. You don't take the call and now he feels bad. He starts thinking the same negative way as you did a couple of days ago! This way things build up more and more negatively on both the sides. One day, you both coincidentally meet up somewhere. But, instead of speaking out and solving your problem, you both turn away and go in your own ways. These things pile up with time and end up in hatred !

There is a saying, "Attitudes determine Thoughts, Thought determines Feelings, Feelings determine Actions and Actions determine our Life". Consider the previous example, negative attitude lead to think negatively when the friend doesn't take the call. When we think negatively, we feel bad and negative about the friend. When we think bad, our actions becomes unfriendly. And finally, when our actions becomes unfriendly, we lose a friend in life!

Lets start thinking positive with the same story.... When your friend fails to answer your call, you think that your friend is having some problem right that time, and you decide to ring him later. There is a feeling of concern about your friend which arises out of the care you have for him. When you ring him up later or meet him somewhere, you enquire whats the problem with him and try to help him out. By seeing the care you have over him, the friend too thinks high about you and become a best pal of yours. And, your friendship never fails !

Me too was thinking negatively before hearing this story during my induction program. When I started thinking about this, it made me realize that I myself was landing up in lots of troubles , blame my own negative thoughts. So, i decided to try out thinking positively. I thought of trying to change one thing by thinking positive about it, and will you believe it happened! The thing which was troubling me for a couple of months, is now in a better state :)

So, start thinking positively. You will realize yourselves that things becoming positive around you!! :)

I just feel like wanna publish this matter because "THIS IS WHAT MY BRAIN SAYS" ;)