Resumo de The Power Of Positive Thinking - Chapter 2

The
Power of Positive thinking - Chapter 2

Increase feel good time

What is there more important than to be
happy? The purpose of life is to be happy. To achieve this you need
to make a conscious decision to be happy. One way
to feel happy is by making someone else happy every day. You may
sacrifice your side in an argument with your spouse. Is not that
wonderful, you have chosen to be happy and avoided the ill feelings
of arguing. Know that it is not good to be down. Speak and act as if
everything you do were a genuine pleasure.

Can you increase your feel
good time, by reducing your feel bad time? Yes, There are three moods
you can be, Positive, negative or neutral. By not being negative you
chose to be neutral or positive. You can avoid repulsing an insult,
and chose to be neutral to begin with. You can avoid harassing your
friend and start becoming more friendly. Life is great , make the
most of it! It pays to be an optimist.

Response to Stimuli

You have got an input set,
output set and a processing pattern. Your input set includes what you
hear, what you see, what you feel by touch and all other sensory
inputs. Your output set includes what you act, what you talk verbally
or non verbally. For a stimuli you process and decide an output
response. You chose your response in your processing time. You decide
your processing time, you decide your response, you may decide your
inputs too. You may chose to see TV, hear music, read paper, talk to
a friend, go to tour or change job. When your processing is
positive, your outputs are positive, giving you more positive inputs.
When your processing is negative, your outputs are negative, giving
you more negative inputs.

Say, A new person of
opposite sex, says Hi to you. You may feel very happy and reply her
positively. You are boosting your happiness, self confidence and self
esteem. You may feel intrigued at being contacted by someone so more
handsome than you. You may reply indifferently hiding your jealousy.
You are boosting a negative self image. Though the event was that of
a person , very attractive, contacting you, you chose the way the
dialog continued. I am illustrating this example, to say that there
is no Positive or Negative event, you chose the event as positive or
negative.

OK. Let us see, When your
wife scolds you for not loving her. You can see the want for love in
her anger and really love her. By showering love on your wife, you
can create a positive atmosphere. You can take the scolding as an
insult and start fighting her. You will make more negative moments by
such quarrels.

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