How To Create a Positive Attitude to Achieve Positive Results October 26
Creating a Positive Attitude to Achieve Positive Results by Mark Victor Hansen
Your attitude determines the state of world you live in. It is the foundation for every success and every failure you have had and will have. Your attitude will make you or break you.
Attitude creates the way you feel about people and situations. Your actions are a result of your attitude, which, in turn, creates a reaction from others. So, basically, what you think … you get. It is your attitude toward others and the Universe that determines the resultant attitude toward you. Incorporate a positive, joyful attitude and you’ll have positive, joyful results. Put out a bad, negative attitude and you’ve failed before you begin.
I know it sounds simple, but the truth is….it IS simple!
WHERE DO NEGATIVE ATTITUDES COME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Negative attitudes come from thinking negative thoughts over and over until they have become a part of your subconscious – they’ve become habitual, a part of your personality. You may not even realize you have a negative attitude because it’s been with you for so long. Once you have a bad attitude, you expect failure and disaster. This expectation turns you into a strong magnet for failure and disaster. Then it becomes a vicious circle. You expect the worst - you get the worst - your negative beliefs are reinforced – you expect the worst – you get …
. . . Got the picture?
SO, HOW DO WE SHIFT OUR THOUGHTS AND CREATE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE?
It takes work, but creating anything of value takes work. In order to have a new attitude we have to change our subconscious thinking. How do we do this? By analyzing every thought we have until positive thinking becomes habit. You’re merely replacing an old habit with a healthy habit, much like replacing exercise for smoking.
You can’t just stop being negative – you have to replace those negative thoughts with positive ones.
Some people would say, “But negative situations are a reality. They just show up in every day life.”
This is absolutely not true. Situations are a reality, yes. They do show up. It is your ATTITUDE that makes a situation positive or negative. It’s time for you to realize that YOU are in control of how you think and feel – no one else on earth has this power unless you give it away. Take control of your attitude, and you take control of your results.
“Your state of mind creates the state of your results.”
Mark Victor Hansen
will be assured success!
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Polarbeardr Jul 14
There is much more to positive and thinking imagining than we realized. Stephen Kosselyn, PhD, of Harvard, has performed research using fMRI scans to show that our brain often cannot tell the difference between a real or imagined experience. Kosselyn also notes that at any moment in time when we think we are perceiving what is going on around us, our brains are really filling in much of the detail for us based on prior experience. That means that without knowing it, we are perpetuating prior experience and not being open to new experiences that could modify the old beliefs and attitudes. This may be even more true in an age of information overload and sound bytes, where we give up any hope of taking in all that is around us. There is a recent study at Harvard on “change blindness,” which can be downloaded on You Tube. About 75% of research subjects failed to notice that the identity of the person handing out a release form (who ducked down behind the counter) and another young male who handed out instructions (who was hidden, then pops up where the previous guy was). Furthermore, fMRIs and other brain technologies are showing that we can be unconsciously affected by aspects of our surroundings. Perhaps Freud was not entirely wrong. A fairly recent book by Sharon Begley (Train Your Mind: Change Your Brain) discusses findings in neuroscience that are resulting in many prior brain dogmas being discarded into the trash heap. It is apparent that the Tibetan monks have been on to something. Davidson’s research on Tibetan monks and college students showed that the students can show dramatic improvements in their abilities to sustain attention after one month of meditating. The Tibetan monk adepts he studied show responses to external stimuli that western medicine is unable to explain. Meditation can alter one’s attitude and tendency to overreact to external stimuli.
Polarbeardr Jul 14
One more basic thought about changing attitudes and beliefs. What Mark Hansen writes about the impossible task of relinquishing negative attitudes is absolutely true. If there was a time when you experienced any strong emotion (e.g., fear, anger, sadness, joy) and tried to control it, chances are that you failed. If you believe there is a boogeyman beneath the bed or in the closet, nothing will persuade you it is not true. Even your own inspection. Inserting thoughts or images that are more positive is an important step, but often it seems that does not work, as the old negative stuff pops right back in. There is an old axiom, “Never reason with an emotion!” Another one is, “Don’t think of pink elephants!” The solution is how one chooses to direct one’s attention. If we can give up the need to defeat or overcome the negative attitude or belief, which may be a false belief that that is the only way to permanently remove it from our life, then we can find ourselves in a much better place. The thing is, the more we train ourselves to direct the focus of our attention, that very process weakens connections to the old negative stuff. So, instead of telling yourself to stop thinking about the boogeyman, employ as many of your senses as possible on calming, relaxing, uplifting stuff (smelling vanilla, dancing around to your favorite music, a relaxation cd, laughing, getting down on all fours and baying like a cow, admiring a sunset, listening to birds nesting, etc.). We may not be able to stop thinking about something, and find ourself thinking about it more the harder we try, but we certainly can focus our attention on something that, in brain research, engages the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system and helps us calm down. This really works. It has no choice because there are governed by real laws being discovered by neuroscientists.