My
7-Step Program for Making Positive Thinking Effective
Being happy and living a positive life is not about
repeating positive affirmations all day every day and hoping they will somehow
transform your life in a miraculous way. There’s more to it than that.
What I will share with you below are 7 steps that are
meant to make positive thinking effective and transform your life in a really
beautiful and empowering way.
1. Take ownership. Whenever we get angry or irritated
because of something people say or do to us it is so because we project our own
shadows and our own darkness on to them.
Next time something negative happens and next time you
come in contact with somebody you don’t quite like or maybe hate, ask yourself
these questions: What is it about this person, situation that is triggering me?
What is it about them that I haven’t yet accepted in me? Do I have some hidden
open wounds that they touched?
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us
to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung
2. Let go of your resistance. If you feel the presence
of anger in your life, let it be there, allow yourself to feel its presence but
don’t allow it to define you, don’t allow you to become you!
Say to yourself: There is anger, frustration,
negativity, etc. in me and I allow it to be there without making it my own.
There is anger in me but I am not the anger, I am the observer of this anger.
“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the
universe.” ~Eckhart Tolle
3. Acceptance with grace all that you face, Accept
yourself for who you are and for who you are not. Accept yourself both in the
presence of positivity, progress and happiness and their absence. Accept the
idea that what you dislike the most in others might be something hidden deep
down within yourself, in your unconscious, something you haven’t accepted in
yourself.
“The difference between my darkness and your darkness
is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while
you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet.” ~ C. JoyBell
4. Forgive and Let Go. Forgive yourself for always
believing that the enemy was outside yourself and never within you. Forgive
yourself for projecting your own shadows on to the world and making it look
cold, scary and frightening.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” ~ Pogo
5. Embrace love and compassion. We have to learn to
love and accept not only the good, bright side of us but also our dark side.
Only by loving and accepting our own darkness without judging and oppressing
it, we will help heal it.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do
that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King
Jr.
6. Visualization to materialize. Visualization is such
a powerful tool that you can use to visualize the person you want to become,
the life you want to live and the impact you want to have in the world.
“The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see
athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the
tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create
their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately
succeeded.” ~ George Kohlrieser
7. Detach from the outcome. Whether things will happen
the way you want them to happen or not, should not matter to you that much. You
now know that your happiness and your well being is not dependent on how things
are on the outside but rather how things are on the inside and if you take good
care of yourself and if you heal your darkness, you whole life will be healed
and light will always shine on you and through you.
“Detach yourself from the opinions of others; from the
habit of judging or controlling others; from the past; from the need to be
right and to win; from an obsession with material things. Follow your passion
in life, but detach from the outcome and allow the universe to handle the
details.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer
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