tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764718963487723431.post-18691255736502187492008-07-23T22:10:00.000-07:002008-07-23T22:18:50.284-07:00<strong></strong><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jizSXMd6Xk4/SIgL2-1_KFI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/lObkhWQ-xHU/s1600-h/Meme-+Hibiscus.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226440406773737554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jizSXMd6Xk4/SIgL2-1_KFI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/lObkhWQ-xHU/s320/Meme-+Hibiscus.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."<br /></span></strong><br /><br />by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a></div><br /><br /><div align="left">Do you have a tendency to see a glass half empty or half full? How you see that glass determines how you percieve your world. If we look at everything from a negative perspective, most things in our lives are going to turn out negative, and we will continue to attract negative experiences into our lives. If we choose to look at our experiences as positive, we will start to attract good into our lives. Everything is essentially neutral, it's how we <strong>view</strong> things that causes an experience to be either good or bad. We can decide to put either a positive or negative spin on everything we encounter in life, and when we do, even something that is quite obviously negative can be viewed as a positive. We learn from even those things that challenge us. </div><br /><div align="left">It all begins with our thoughts, and remember- a thought can be changed.<br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong></strong><br /><br /></div><div align="left"><strong>SOLUTIONS FOR NEGATIVE THINKING:</strong></div><br /><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Try to find the lesson in every challenging situation; you will find there is always something wonderful to learn from it. </div><div align="left"><br />Look for something good in every experience. There will always be something positive.</div><br /><br /><div align="left">If you have a negative thought, immediately replace that thought with a positive one. It's easier than you think.</div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Compare yourself to someone worse off than you. That always puts things into perspective.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left">Give all the negativity up to God to handle, because there is nothing too hard for God to handle.</div>Incognitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09692949516037191969noreply@blogger.com