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the difference between positive and negative thinking

imagine that you have a glass that is containing an amount of water that takes half of its capacity , do you perceive the glass of water as half full or as half empty ?

probably if you are a negative thinker then you will see the glass as half empty while if you were a positive thinker you will see it as half full. positive thinking in general is viewing the positive side of things rather than the negative side , positive thinkers see a chance in every challenge and negative thinkers see a challenge in every chance .

what can positive thinking do to your life

positive thinking can turn your life the other way around because many of our pain and suffering in life that we experience is because of expecting bad things to happen, excess worry and anxiety. under laying many of the personal disorders people have is incorrect perception of reality or viewing reality from a much worse perspective than its really is .thinking in a positive way will make your life much happier and healthier because you will be either living a positve moment or expecting a positive moment.

how to be a positive thinker?

but how to think positively while being surrounded by all of these uncertainties in our modern world ?

the key for positive thinking is changing your "self talk" to a positive self talk instead of a negative one, self talk are the phrases and words you use when you think or talk to yourself, for example a negative thinker could use phrases in his mind like "oh i will never make it in time" or maybe "i don't expect to do well today, just like every time" . this negative self talk can easily be changed into positive self talk using training , whenever you find yourself thinking negatively say to your self "i must be more rational, things may not be that negative", after some time of practice positive thinking will become a habit and you may not need to force it manually .

Another good thing you can do in order to become a positive thinker is to understand how does thoughts flow inside your mind, by understanding what triggers certain thoughts you will be able to control your thoughts to a certain extent and so help yourself in becoming a positive thinker. (read this guide to gain more understanding of the thinking process)

religion and positive thinking

another source of changing your way of thinking from negative to positive one is getting more involved into religion. all religions contain imbedded ideas that encourage expecting the best from god and his deeds.

freinds and negative thinking

friends can be a source of either positive or negative ideas, make sure you pick positive thinking friends , optimists are natural positive thinkers , stay longer with them and tell them more about your future plans, you can notice if someone is an optimist or pessimist by just taking a look at him using face reading.

overgeneralization,when negative thinking covers everything

one very complicated form of negative thinking overgeneralization,
overgeneralization is thinking that everything is negative while expecting nothing to be positive at all, over generalization may be your normal way of thinking that you have developed from your past experience or it may be a temporary mental state that you experience when having a bad day, usually when lots of bad things happen at the beginning of a day people expect the whole day to be bad, this is one form of overgeneralization.

but what if there was real negative things

its worth to mention that being a positive thinker does not mean ignoring all negative aspects of something but instead both negative and positive aspects are to be considered but the emphasis you put on the negative aspects should be much lower than those of the positive aspects.

did that help ?

yeah but i want to know more about negative self talk ?

Cognitive behavior therapy , huh ?? !!

FACE READING!!!! Oh my God!!! TEACH me face reading NOW!!!

i always over generalize, tell me more about overgeneralizations ?

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