CMK Foundation

Having a positive mental attitude not only promotes inner health but it magically extends to the outer health. This is the power that positive thinking can bring to anyone who decides to make it their habit.

The amazing power of positive thinking can bring happiness, inner peace, better mental and physical health, improved relationships, success and satisfaction. However, to experience its lasting power and regular effect, you need to decide in making it your primary mental attitude.

Though repeating positive words and declaring that everything is going to be alright will be absolutely helpful in inviting positive vibes, but along with your decision to make it your permanent mental attitude, you must develop it, adopt it and make it a part of your daily life in order to experience real results.

Success in developing a positive mental attitude towards everything may not happen at your soonest preferred time, making it your daily intent is a good step for the mind to get accustomed to positive thinking. Seeing the positive side of things is another mental action that will not only help you in developing positive thinking, but it can help in improving relations both personally and professionally.

With a positive thinking fully developed, you begin to share the love as it is contagious. It is an infectious power that incredibly spreads to the people in your environment.

Positive thinking is an inner power that can be achieved by anyone without a cost. Deciding to make it your permanent mental attitude only takes your determination in making it your daily intent. Only a positive mind has the power to control the negative forces in his surroundings. Positive attitude is extremely important, as it encourages individuals to approach each day, and each problem, with a bright outlook. Anyone can become powerful when there is willingness to make positive thinking a daily habit.

~By Keith Gray

Researchers continue to explore the effects of positive thinking and optimism on health. Health benefits that positive thinking may provide include:

• Increased life span
• Lower rates of depression
• Lower levels of distress
• Greater resistance to the common cold
• Better psychological and physical well-being
• Reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease
• Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress

It’s unclear why people who engage in positive thinking experience these health benefits. One theory is that having a positive outlook enables you to cope better with stressful situations, which reduces the harmful health effects of stress on your body. It’s also thought that positive and optimistic people live healthier lifestyles — they get more physical activity, follow a healthier diet, and have reduced rates of smoking and alcohol consumption.

By Mayo Clinic staff

Self-talk is the endless stream of thoughts that run through your head every day. These automatic thoughts can be positive or negative. Some of your self-talk comes from logic and reason. Other self-talk may arise from misconceptions that you create because of lack of information.

If the thoughts that run through your head are mostly negative, your outlook on life is more likely pessimistic. If your thoughts are mostly positive, you’re likely an optimist — someone who practices positive thinking.

By Mayo Clinic staff

Positive thinking helps with stress management and can even improve your health. Overcome negative self-talk by recognizing it and practicing with some examples provided.

Is your glass half-empty or half-full? How you answer this age-old question about positive thinking may reflect your outlook on life, your attitude toward yourself, and whether you’re optimistic or pessimistic.

In fact, some studies show that these personality traits — optimism and pessimism — can affect many areas of your health and well-being. Positive thinking also is a key part of effective stress management. Positive thinking doesn’t mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore life’s less pleasant situations. It just means that you approach the unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way.

With all this in mind, take a refresher course in positive thinking. Learn how to put positive thinking into action in your own life, and reap the benefits.

~Mayo Clinic Staff

There’s a lot of buzz these days around the whole concept of the Law of Attraction, which states if you feel the positive outcome you wish to achieve and believe it will come to pass, you will eventually attract that reality into your life. This is a fancy form of optimism. When you are optimistic, you believe that there will be a positive outcome. When you believe that there will be a positive outcome, you are more likely to act in the positive manner that will bring about the outcome you hope for. The future is said to be determined by whether a person strives or yields. With optimism, you always push ahead and therefore achieve what you’re looking for.

There was an interesting study done by Robert Shuman in 1979 that speaks about the loss of optimism. When Shuman was practicing psychology at a children’s hospital, he suffered from great mental torment and was hospitalized for back pain. He was later diagnosed with debilitating multiple sclerosis. He fell into a state of great helplessness, anguish, and torment, and decided to document these feelings that he knew so many others in similar chronic situations were plagued with. His notes culminated in his book The Psychology of Chronic Illness. Shuman’s book was significant because it brought to our understanding how chronic illness with no cure ruins optimism in individuals—perhaps for the rest of their lives. Once power over our own lives is lost, our optimism is lost as well.

The power of optimism is the power to successfully navigate and overcome life’s greatest challenges. Optimism can be learned. You need not be a born optimist to experience the benefits of optimism. In reality, optimism is a choice that we can all make. We all have the power to observe our negative thoughts and compulsive actions. We have the power to be aware of ourselves and our past that influences our current actions. When we are finally able to clearly see what we are doing and understand what we are thinking, we then have the power to choose optimism.

~ali magazine