Showing posts with label positive thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label positive thinking. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2015

The Power of Positive Thought


The Awesome Power of Positive Thought

We all know that positive thoughts and visualization are really effective when it comes to re-educating our subconscious mind and changing our behavior. 

My interest in the life changing power of positive thought and visualization started in my mid-twenties (quite a few years ago) when I picked up a copy of Norman Vincent Peale’s best seller “ The Power of Positive Thinking”. 

 I didn’t just read this book with interest and enthusiasm, I devoured it and followed its suggestions to the letter.

I recall posting quotations and affirmations on my bathroom mirror so I could read and repeat them while I shaved each morning.  I memorized them and recited them while I drove to work. I pictured myself being what I envisioned.  The process soon became an enjoyable habit.

Slowly I, and my wife, began to notice changes appear in my attitudes and behavior. I emphasize the word slowly here because things just didn’t change overnight. But change they did.

Years of worry, fear, anxiety, negativity and impatience just don’t disappear with the reading of one book. But the journey to peace, calmness and joy had definitely begun and results were apparent quite quickly.

In the intervening years I have continued to learn a great deal more about the power of positive thought to transform individual lives and even the world in which we live.  

Great progress has been made  in the area of mind /body research by people like Wayne Dyer, Herbert Benson, Deepak Chopra,  Lynn McTaggart, Dr. Bernie Seigel, Carl Simonton MD just to name a few. 

Their findings reveal a dimension to living positively that includes healing the body with the mind that goes beyond mere positive thinking.


On Positive Thoughts

I am the product of the thoughts I think therefore I choose to think positive thoughts. 

A Positive Attitude attracts people to you, is a major factor in good health and is vital to the achievement of peace of mind.  I commit to a positive attitude 

Pain in life is inevitable- misery is optional.

A sour face is the result of sour thoughts.                                                                  

Thoughts rule the world. Let positive, happy thoughts rule yours. 

We are what we think.

      All that we are arises 

      With our thoughts.

      With our thoughts 

      We make our world.

                                           Buddha 

Wisdom keeps you from making mistakes and comes from having made plenty of them. 

Optimism is a lot like electricity... nothing much happens without it. 

In our eagerness to give our children what we didn’t have as children we run the risk of not giving them the wonderful things we did have. MM

 

This article is an excerpt from Mike’s special report “121 Thoughts of Hope, Joy and Inspiration for Daily Living” (Quotations, Affirmations and Cartoons)   If thoughts rule the world make sure positive thoughts rule yours.

Commit to a new way of thinking and a new way of living.
Practical thoughts to transform your life     http://motivationalplus.com/cgi/a/t.cgi?121inspiresp   

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

New Story:Now this is Positive Thinking

Attributed to Leo Buscaglia , The Love Doctor
 
On my way home one day, I stopped to
watch a Little League base ball game that was being played in a
park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-
base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was
'We're behind 14 to nothing,' he answered
With a smile.
 
'Really,' I said. 'I have to say you
don't look very discouraged.'
 
'Discouraged?', the boy asked with a
Puzzled look on his face...
 
'Why should we be discouraged? We haven't
Been up to bat yet.'
 
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Monday, March 18, 2013

The Power of Positive.....

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I was re-reading the Power of Positive Thinking and this just popped into my head. Who says life isn't fun?

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Short Video Humor and Attitude and the Quest for Happiness

Hi. I have just posted a short video of a performance I gave at the Sanderson Centre in Brantford Ontario Canada a few years ago. Thought you might like to take a peek. Enjoy.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

What Can You Say After That?

I noticed that my gas gauge was pushing empty and decided to
pull into a service station to fill up.

A nice young man about 35 years of age began filling the tank
as I made small talk to pass the time.

He had a rather sad look about him so I said, " How are things
going, Buddy?" He looked at me and replied, " Other than the
fact that I'm living from pay to pay, making minimum wage and find it impossible to get a woman to go out with me....Fantastic.

What do you say after that?

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Monday, June 13, 2011

10 Positive Power Attitudes

The ability to achieve our enormous untapped potential is directly related to the attitudes we possess. Positive attitudes empower us to achieve while negative attitudes tend to keep us rooted where we are.



A Harvard study followed a group of graduates over an extended period of time and found that 85% of what they achieved in the areas of wealth and position was the result of attitude while 15% was the result of aptitude.



I think the message is clear. Change your negative attitudes to positive and great things begin to happen.



Here are a few stories of people with power attitudes. I hope that in reading them you will begin to see that your life can be more enjoyable and productive by committing to a change of attitude.



* Walt Disney once said, " Never forget that all this started with a mouse."



* The great thing about being old is that you can sing in the bathroom while brushing your teeth.



* Anyone who says that money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.



* If a cat could speak it would probably say, " Hey, I don't see a problem here."



* Thomas Edison once remarked, " I haven't failed ten thousand times. I have successfully discovered ten thousand ways that didn't work."



* On older woman looking in the mirror was heard to remark," Isn't it wonderful that wrinkles don't hurt?"



* We can all learn a great deal from the young, beautiful, confident nurse who deducted ten beats per minute from the pulse of every one of her male patients.



* After examining the knee of an 80 year old patient, the doctor concluded that the pain she was experiencing was simply due to age. The patient looked at the doctor and said, " But my other knee is the same age and it doesn't hurt."



* I like the story of the 85 year old woman who, upon looking into the mirror at her wrinkled face, remarked, " They sure don't make mirrors like they used to."



* When Agatha Christie was asked how she like being married to an archeologist she replied, that it was wonderful because the older she got the more interested in her he became.



As I say in my talks on the power of a positive attitude, Change your attitude and you will change your life. Remember that we are the products of the attitudes we possess. Good luck.


Mike Moore is an international speaker on Humor and Stress Management, Humor in the Workplace and Humor and Human Potential. His articles and cartoons have appeared in publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

New Story: Lesson From An Aged Mother

A son went to visit his 85 year old mother in a nursing home
to take her for a drive in the country. As they were leaving
her room he noticed that she had forgotten her cane. " Don't
forget your cane, Mom," he said.

She looked at him sternly and told him, in no uncertain
terms, that it wasn't a cane. It was a walking stick.

"What's the difference?" the son asked.

She quickly replied, " A cane speaks of disability while a
walking stick speaks of ability."

CASE CLOSED!!!

I was the son in the story. Mom died July 18, 2008 at the wonderful age of 94. What an attitude she had.

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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Four Empowering Thoughts

* I am the product of the thoughts I think.

* " When running up a hill it's OK to give up as many times as you want as long as your feet keep moving." D. Millman

* When life puts a hurdle in front of you become a high jumper.

* Laughter destroys all limits to your thinking. When laughing you're open to all possibilities.

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