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Can You Create Happiness With Your Thoughts?
Believe it or not, it is within your power to create positive thoughts allowing you to accomplish anything you set out to do. Can you really think yourself happy? The answer is a qualified yes. Here are the ways in which positive thoughts can help you accomplish many things in life.
Positive thoughts produce positive results. We can either bemoan our situation, or change it. We can be negative about an event or enthusiastic. President Lincoln once said, “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” If you really want to think yourself happy, then make up your mind to do so. It may be difficult to think happy in a world filled with hatred and violence. But it’s not impossible. One person, one idea, one positive thought can change society. How, then, can we make ourselves happy? By being a constant reminder to others that there is goodness in the world.
- Seek out positive people to associate with.
- Expose yourself to all the wonderful books, music and movies available.
- Find the one important thing in your life that’s important, and pursue it.
- Show kindness and respect towards others.
- Live life as if every day is your last.
- Use positive reinforcement wherever and whenever you can.
- Use visualization methods to view the positive aspects of life.
- Speak in a positive tone.
- Rid your mind of negative thinking with yoga and exercise.
- Let your expectations reflect your positive attitude.
- Allow peace of mind to envelop you.
- Become your own best friend.
There is a wonderful poem which clearly explains how unhappiness can thwart our every desire.
If you think you are beaten you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you want to win but think you can’t;
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose you’re lost;
For out of the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in a state of mind.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger and faster man.
Happiness is not a genetic trait we are born with. It is ingrained in us by our parents and those we love. It is up to us, then, to maintain it, share it, and build our lives around it. Think happy, and you will be happy.
Your Turn: Do you have any advice you would like to share? What tips would you like to add? Please comment below.
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Hi there – good ideas on positive thinking. I like this one: Seek out positive people to associate with. Nothing brings you down like people who are always negative! Have a great week.
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ReplyThinking and speaking about what you want rather than what you don’t is key to living a happy life. It was good to see you mention it here.
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ReplyGoes back to the Law of Attraction . . . you attract what you think about.
Replyolá, muito mais importante que os pensamentos positivos são os sentimentos positivos. Recomendo a Academia da Felicidade
Replyum feliz abraço, Ururahy
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Happiness isn’t as difficult to find as some may think, but often we find it in places we weren’t expecting.
ReplyTwo ideas I’d like to add to the discussion are to get in the habit of being grateful for what you have (count your blessings), and to practice living in the moment, rather than obsessing about the past or worrying about the future.
ReplyJefferson said that it is everybody’s right to pursue happiness, but it is up to them to catch it. That is true, if you make up your mind to always better yourself, yet be content with what you have, you will be happy.
ReplyJason@Art Blog´s last blog ..Pictures of President Abraham Lincoln
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I agree. It is very much achievable. Just put your mind to it and you’ll surely achieve it. Be happy
Replyjaph@learn hypnosis´s last blog ..Hypnosis – 4 Reasons why it’s a Force for Good
This is so true that you can be happy and achieve anything if you think positive about it
Most of the reasons why people fail also is because they lose hope, or they stop trying to do something before they have even begun doing it…
So hopefully people will be more positive and then the world would be a much nicer place as well
ReplyHappiness is state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy .i always believe that you should always try to be happy because life is to small.well i like your article and your poem too. and learned so many good points here thanks to you.keep sharing.
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Hi there – good ideas on positive thinking. I like this one: Seek out positive people to associate with.
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