Stinkin' Thinkin'
Thinking: The process of using one’s mind to consider or reason about something.
Stinkin’ Thinkin’: Though that is negative or has a negative effect upon you or those around you.
Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be open unto you.
Matthew 7:7
It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.
Matthew 15:11
And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
Matthew 21:22
The kingdom of Heaven is within.
Luke 17:21
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With the basis of the Bible verses above (there are even more in the Bible) you can see how the message is that what you think about matters! What you think about can guide or effect how you feel. How you feel can effect your energy. Your energy can effect what you draw into your experience.
If you get one point from this blog it should be that negative thinking does NOT serve you in any way.
It is true that we are discerning creatures. Meaning, we are constantly looking at a situation and choosing HOW we perceive it. Positive. Negative. Good. Bad. Helpful. Not helpful. It is in this observation of what is happening around you that the ASKING is born. If you see negative, you ASK for positive. This can and does happen at the inner or sole level. That is the feeling you get when you see negative. Your emotions. That is an ASK.
A hazard of our perceiving and constant judgement of a situation is that we can get stuck in a pattern of not only seeing what we see as negative, but drawing more of it to us.
This speaks to our CHOICE. We ultimately have Free Will and CHOOSE how we perceive what we see. We CHOOSE how we react to what we experience. We CHOOSE what we incorporate into who we are and what part of that we take forward into our lives.
Thinking positively does not mean you deny that negative exists. It is more about what you choose to incorporate into your existence.
This is how two people can look at the same situation and see two different things.
Getting and Staying Positive
Once while speaking with someone near and dear to me, I was trying to lift their spirits and help them see the situation in a more positive light. I will never forget the response. I was told: “I don’t want your Pollyanna view.” After recovering from the initial shock, I realized that we as people can get so caught up in or so drowned in negative feeling that we reject positive. It is just too far a leap to make.
Another example is when a positive person tries to point out the positive in a situation that is being talked about by someone who is framing it in the negative. Same as above, they don’t agree with your assessment or see the point in your view of the same situation.
So, getting in the positive frame of mind may take some practice for some. It does not have to happen all at once. In fact, it won’t. Start small. Start with one situation and look at it from many perspectives. See how the good or positive can be drawn from that one situation. Then expand it and put half a days worth of effort into it. Then a day and so on. String the feelings out from one situation into another. See how you mood changes. See how you more positive mood starts to effect your life and then those around you.
Think of it as a muscle that needs exercising.
What we think about and how we choose to perceive it is a choice.
This choice can and will have a profound effect upon us and those around us.