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A positive attitude helps us face our problems without losing sight of the opportunities they offer.
Optimism and pessimism are two different ways of looking at life which decidely condition the nature and quality of life’s experiences.
Everything within Nature is dual. Life therefore offers us the possibility of reading it either positively or negatively. To become polarized in either positive or negative aspects, generates corresponding causes and effects.
A positive attitude permits us to live through problems without losing sight of the opportunities they represent, to activate our personal capacities and resources, whereas the opposite kind of attitude fills us with worry and concern that sometimes leads us to the limit of despair anguish and mentally blocks us.
A positive person has a greater possibility of thoroughly using their own personal resources successfully, as they know what they are and believe in them, even when circumstances seem to be more unfavorable.
Being positive is an active exercise that requires self-observation on a daily basis and disciplined training that leads us to modify our negative language whether external or internal and to educate our attitude to incorporate constructive habits consciously.
Positive people:
- Understand that life is a school and that from every experience you can extract a useful lesson.
- Do not expect life to make changes for them, instead they create them themselves.
- Easily generate the changes they need, polarizing themselves on the achievement they want without internal contradictions.
- Understand that conscious self discipline is of utmost importance in life.
- Know that it is useless to complain and that complaining has its consequences.
- Recognize their mistakes and failures, learn from them and increase their operability and efficiency.
- Cultivate their sense of humor and know how to laugh at themselves, even though they do take life seriously.
- Close their ears to collective pessimism.
- Fulfill all of their civic commitments, help other people and happily give what is appropriate.
- Influence their surroundings contributing to maintain harmony, happiness and hope in any situation.
Working with a positive attitude means making a concrete effort to:
- Finding the positive side of things.
- Not giving in to negative thoughts.
Practice: Self-Observation
- Observe your own thoughts to detect your typical negative thoughts. You will realize that in essence they are very limited and very repetitive, like a scratched record.
- Observe your body posture as it reflects the content of your thoughts and emotions.
