Choose to be Positive in Nature Please

We all have heard by now of the power of positive thoughts. You are what you think. Positive thoughts brings about positive experiences. The power of attraction. If you have a positive attitude you will attract positive happenings in your life. Wonderful! I love positive things. I’m all for positive thoughts. The law of attraction makes perfect sense to me.

Has anyone watched the news lately? Is it positive? Has anyone read the news reports (online or print) lately? Is it positive? Unfortunately the facts are as clear as daylight. We need to order a great helping of positive in order for us all to reap positive benefits.

I experience an ebb and flow of positivity from time to time. When I’m in a low mood (prefer to say low mood than down or depressed) I know I’ve been entertaining a whole lot of negativity. Entertaining negativity is not the hardest thing to do these days. You get into the lift of the building you work in and you ask anyone: “how are you”? Best you be prepared for a complaint of sorts. Your colleagues are not happy with this, you sister moans about that, you parents are concerned about that or the other, etc…Do you see how easy it is to be consumed by negativity.

Now please bear with me, I know I am sounding rather pathetic too, but I am only trying to drive my point home. The reality of the matter is that we are so accustomed to peoples complaints we don’t even know it. I like to make people aware of their negativity only to help them become positive instead. How can we heal if we don’t know the diagnosis, how can we move forward if we don’t know where we’re going? What is positivity?

Positivity can be defined as the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome. Success/ful and encourage/d are words and desires we should more include in our daily living. Making the most of every moment is what we need to learn as people on the road of life. We must learn to take advantage of our situation and make the very best of things. Legions of us become stressed and panicky when things don’t turn out the way we intended for it to. The unfamiliar is unwelcome so we set off the alarm bells without even exercising our ability to overcome.

Inevitably we have to overcome what ever we face in order to survive; and 9 out of 10 times we do overcome. So why do we moan and complain and fill our hearts and minds with so much negativity. Why do we insistently (sometimes unwittingly) spread negativity to others? When will we learn to breed and nurture positivity?

Dear God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can and the wisdom to know the difference. And God give me the courage to love with an open heart. – India Arie
Amen.