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Strategies for Positive Thinking

The document discusses the power of positive thinking. It explains that positive thoughts help to solve problems clearly and calmly, while negative thoughts cause confusion and despair. It also provides strategies for cultivating positive thinking, such as focusing on the positive, not identifying with negative thoughts, and turning negative thoughts into positive ones.

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Strategies for Positive Thinking

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"SELF-REFERENCE" PROGRAM

Positive Thinking
The power of thought

When we think of or hear a word, immediately


a mental image arises, which in turn evokes a sensation, a
attitude, an emotion.

Both external stimuli and our own thought


they constantly evoke emotions and attitudes in us
chords with the "quality" of our thoughts.

Thought and altered emotional states

When a person is overwhelmed by an emotional state


altered, the reasoning processes become distorted and even
based on real data, the person can reach
to fashion biased reasoning and even absolutely
false.
Therefore, at the outset, in an altered emotional state, it will be very
it is convenient to remember this effect of emotion on reason and:

1. Distrust your own reasoning, and then:

2. AVOID The reasoning process that will only lead to


biased conclusions, and above all:

3. WAIT to MAKE important DECISIONS.

This STOP in the reasoning process does not


It's definitive, it's just about letting oneself
precise time to achieve a greater state
serenity, where the person regains their
equilibrium, greater mental clarity and a
more positive attitude.

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SELF-REFERENCE PROGRAM

What does it mean to have positive thinking?

. A positive attitude favors the solution of problems, by


bring clarity of ideas, emotional serenity, and drive to
take the necessary steps.

. On the contrary, a negative attitude makes it difficult and even


it makes a favorable solution to a problem impossible, by causing
confusion of ideas, emotional turmoil, despair and
demotivation to do anything.

. A positive attitude allows you to face problems without losing sight


the opportunity they represent, activating the capabilities and the
personal resources, while the opposite attitude fills us
of worry and concern, sometimes even to the limits of the
desperation, anguish, and blockage.

. The positive person has a greater chance of employing


fund, and successfully, their own personal resources, since the
get to know them better and believe in them, even when circumstances are
show more unfavorable.

Being positive means, therefore:

. Expect the best from life, without hiding its eventual harshness. No
it's about seeing beauty in what is ugly, nor decorating the reality of
beautiful form. It is about being open to the positive, knowing that
life can favor, strengthen, and teach sometimes through
bitter experiences.

. Facing problems and difficulties as


challenges and opportunities and not as obstacles
and brakes. Promote a 'sportsmanlike' attitude
in the face of life; to think that obstacles
they are here to save them, not to resign themselves and
to brake the path that one had traced.

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. Look for the positive, usable aspects at every moment.


without denying the undesirable reality: To think in the end,
What can what I am experiencing be useful for? The worst of
past experiences are forgiven by life if the person extracts from it
she a learning, a knowledge, a positive consequence
which is useful to him in the present.

. Empowering one's own abilities, without ignoring them


the own difficulties or limitations: who doesn't have flaws?
Who can do it ALL?
Instead of thinking about what one cannot do, does not know, or is...
it's much more useful to think about what can
to do, in that which it does know, in the characteristics
personal things that satisfy oneself.

Strategies for fostering positive thinking

Working on positive thinking means carrying out a


effort for:

1. Focus on finding the positive side of the


things
2. Do not give in to negative thoughts
The following are some ideas that may help to
work on both aspects:

to OBSERVE one's own thoughts to detect the


typical negative thoughts and/or perceptions, and
check that they are very few and very repetitive, like a
broken record.

do NOT identify with thoughts and/or perceptions


negative or disturbing. To withdraw from their influence the
a person has to decide that, despite being negative, they can choose
not to pay attention to them.

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To invert thoughts: "To get caught" in a thought


negative, stop and voluntarily turn it around,
turning it into a reasonably positive thought
the hopeful.

refuse to nurture negative thoughts and


negative perceptions, resorting to strategies to
focus attention on other things.

occupying the mind positively

. VISUALIZING positive images created in a way


voluntary.

. Making positive affirmations about oneself


same.

To avoid pointless COMPLAINT, which only feeds the discomfort,


subtracting energy and internal resources.

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