I'm Positive!: Program your thoughts and feelings to create a positive life
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When you program your mind towards positive expectations, life opens up opportunities that a negative mindset could never have imagined. You create new, long-lasting neural pathways that support your success in all aspects of life. You see that there are multiple options to most challenges. You become a friend to yourself and not a saboteur who expects you to fail before you begin. A positive mindset helps you eliminate old critical self-talk and move forward in the direction you choose.
This book contains strategies and activities that the author has complied over fifteen years of working with clients in her counselling and hypnotherapy practice. Each activity is straightforward and can be completed in the privacy of your own quiet space.
With the help of this book, you can learn to program your mind so that positivity is your natural default and choice. This positivity then flows out into the world, like a ripple that never ends, as you touch the lives of all who cross your path.
Michelle Robinson
Michelle Robinson has written numerous picture book texts published in the UK and/or the US. She hoards cardboard, foil, and plastic bottle caps so her children can build their own robots and other creations. Her book There's a Lion in My Cornflakes won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Best Picture Book in 2014. She lives in England with her family.
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I'm Positive! - Michelle Robinson
Red Flags for Healthy Thinking
Each of the following statements is a ‘red flag’ to alert you to sabotaging or unhelpful thoughts. Reflect on whether any of these, or similar thoughts and feelings, influence your life.
Relationship with Myself
I expect to fail at something before I begin.
I dislike looking in the mirror.
I have a critical voice in my head that keeps sabotaging me.
I feel depressed, anxious, unable to get motivated.
I have little self-confidence and self-worth.
I feel guilty and blame myself for things that have happened.
I feel lost and don’t know how to feel happy.
Relationships with Others
I am still very angry at one or more people from my past.
I am self-conscious and embarrassed in social and work settings.
I doubt whether my family/friends/partner really like or love me. Maybe they are just being polite/feel sorry for me.
I give more to others than I receive. I often feel hurt and let down.
I can’t forgive myself for relationships that have failed.
I find it hard to trust people and make new friends.
Repeated Patterns
I can’t believe how I keep making the same mistakes.
I sabotage myself. I quit even when I want to do something.
I befriend people who seem to need my help and I always end up hurt.
I keep losing money/assets/relationships because of poor decisions or behaviour.
I sometimes put myself in harm’s way and regret it later.
I sabotage my relationships but can’t seem to change.
I sacrifice my well-being for others and then I feel resentful.
I have an addiction or a habit I struggle to control.
I stuff my feelings down. I can’t express what matters to me.
You will notice that none of the statements above expand your confidence or personal growth. The opposite is true.
Our decisions are generally based on what we are thinking and feeling, and what we think and feel forms our beliefs.
Here is an example.
If I think that I am capable of performing a higher role at work and feel confident in my abilities, then I believe success is possible. I also believe I am worthy of a promotion. I will take the steps required to apply for the role I desire.
If I tell myself that I am slow to learn new skills and feel like everyone else is smarter than I am, then I believe failure is likely. I am unwilling to apply for roles that might make me happier and believe I am destined to stay stuck in the same job.
Our thoughts, feelings and beliefs interact below the level of our awareness to drive our decisions and habits. Just as unhelpful neural pathways are formed through repetitive thoughts, feelings and behaviours, our positive responses have been formed in the same way. Hence, choosing positivity is the gift we could wisely offer our self.
This requires training and time, yet the results are worth it.
The ART of Positive Thinking
No matter what goal we want to achieve, it is important that our unconscious mind and conscious mind work together to support success.
The automatic programs that store our habits, behaviours and beliefs sit in the unconscious mind, like software on a computer. Sometimes they are more like a virus or a version uploaded during childhood than currently helpful or relevant. Yet they continue to steer our life.
The activities and strategies in this book provide conscious steps you can take to enhance and strengthen your positive thinking.
In summary, the ART of Positive Thinking involves:
Awareness so that automatic, unhelpful thoughts and responses are acknowledged and changed before they impact you;
Resolving and/or Releasing unhelpful emotions, beliefs, habits and memories from the past; and
Training to consistently choose positive responses rather than self-limiting habits and beliefs.
Reframing (changing) negative self-talk is important at every stage of the process. You will become a friend to yourself and not the saboteur.
Over time, your positive relationship with yourself becomes automated. You do not have to consciously ‘do the right thing’ for the rest of your life. Healthy decisions will just occur naturally. You will no longer expect negative outcomes. You will become options-focussed and open to possibilities when facing challenges. Life will feel like a learning experience and less like hard work or punishment. These are some of the internal shifts that occur with an orientation towards positive thinking.
You become the creator of your experiences, since how you respond feels more under your control. Rather than believing things always happen to you, you recognise points of influence where you can