Have a Positive Mental Attitude!

"Have a Positive Mental Attitude!"

"...Your feelings and emotions play a large role in what you manifest or fail to manifest. If you think of your thoughts as seeds, think of our emotional environment as soil. Therefore, your positive seeds must be sown in positive soil to grow and flourish. Together, your positive thought and feelings create a positive mental attitude...Your attitude has everything to do with what you are capable of achieving." Dr. Tae Yun Kim, 'Seven Steps to Inner Power'

When ever I have a tough day, I remind myself to keep a positive mental attitude about what ever is going on. I may not be able to control what happens, but I do 100% have control over how I react to it.

Maybe its one of those days where everything seemed to go wrong. You know, one of those where you wake up late, spill juice on your white shirt, get stuck in traffic, and then your computer crashes just it is saving changes to an important file your boss wants half an hour ago..

I can't control the traffic, or stop the computer from crashing, but I can control how I react to it. If I let myself get all stressed out and let my blood pressure rise until I'm all set to snap at the first person who asks me something - that's MY choice. It might not be a particularly good choice, but it is a choice, and a choice I could make. If I instead stop and tell myself to breath, calm down, and detach from the stress, that's MY choice too.

The more I keep a positive mental attitude as I go through the day, the more I find that things that could otherwise build up and cause me stress, don't stress me out. If I can keep a slightly detached view of all that happens to me, and not get emotionally wrapped up in it, I find it is much easier to get through any stressful situation. Instead of being like a leaf blown about in the wind, as each new stressful thing comes up, if I keep a positive mental attitude, I can be like a leaf blower instead - and be in control of blowing the leaves (i.e. stress) away.