What You Believe – Positive or Negative - Is True
Positive or negative – what you believe is true
Even if you don’t buy into the Law of Attraction – like gravity, thermodynamics, and other elements of nature – it still exists and does its work whether you are conscious of it or not.
This is why what you believe is true. At least, from your unique, one-of-a-kind perspective.
Every single person on earth has their own perception of reality. Ergo, we all have unique perspectives on life, the universe, and everything.
Toxic attitudes can be both positive and negative.
Toxic positivity and negativity exist directly up against their related extreme. That’s not where most people exist in any given reality.
What you believe is true is as you choose
Let me be clear. This isn’t literal. Because belief is seldom completely literal.
Thoughts, feelings, and intentions exist in each of us individually. You are the only one in your head, heart, and soul - just as much as I’m the only one in my head, heart, and soul. Thus, you alone think, feel, and intend for you.
Our subconscious beliefs are why belief is seldom completely literal.
How do we take control of our beliefs and our truths?
The short answer is mindfulness.
When you are mindful, you become consciously aware of what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, intentions you have, and actions you take related to it all.
With that, you gain the ability to take control of your beliefs and choose your truth for yourself.
Hence, if you believe in the negative – lack, scarcity, and insufficiency – that’s your truth. Conversely, if you believe in the positive – possibility, potential, and abundance – that’s your truth.
Yes, bad things will still happen. That’s life. But you still choose if positive or negative is the dominant direction you face. That, ultimately, is your truth.
Thus, what you believe – positive or negative – is true to and for you.
This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool:
This tool is specific to an event.
When something happens this week – specifically something unexpected, frustrating, distressing, and generally negative – after your perfectly valid, initial reaction – consider what happened.
What you believe – positive or negative – is true. After something bad happens, it’s easy to go negative. But you have a choice. So, here’s the exercise:
1. Write it down
2. Explain why it generated the emotion it generated
3. Now that you’ve had some time removed from it, how are you feeling?
4. If negative, can you refocus to find and/or create a positive?
This is meant to show you how self-awareness and mindfulness empower you to change any belief you hold.
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