Notice negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts

Slowly, with the aid of a rubber band around my wrist, which I lightly snap whenever a negative thought creeps into my mind.

So far it has helped immensely and my thought-pattern has indeed modified since I’ve been doing this.

I just wonder how/if it will continue to work long-term :\ snaps band at negative thought

Haha!

i hate negative comments + thought |-)

about positive thinking, that doesn`t have all the more religious stuff in it. Any suggestions? I started reading “You can heal your life” today. I`m sure it`s a very good book, when when the author for instance states for a fact that we all chose when and where to be born, because we need whatever specific parents, country and time we chose to develop our personality, I get a bit distracted. I`m not saying that is wrong, it`s just not something I believe in, and for some reason that distracts me from enjoying what might very well be an excellent book in many ways. And although I do believe in the powers of positive thinking, which can have a huge impact on peoples lives, I do have a problem with the books that seem to state that if you just think in the right way, the universe will just hand over absolutely everything you want. Hm. Must keep searching for another book, because I do need to work on my positive thinking.

At least some of time when I think of myself “you idiot!” I now catch myself and remind me “there is no such as an idiot”. Why is there no such thing? Because there are several billion people on this planet and whilst some suffer from various mental and physical impairments none of them are actually idiots.

However I may do something silly or through inaction cause a poor result. That does not make an idiot – I am worthwhile even if I make someone else’s existence a tad more bearable.

That reminds of the Asimov’s three laws of robotics:-

First Law: A robot must not harm or thorough inaction allow harm to come to a human being.

Second Law: A robot must follow the instructions of a human being except where this would conflict with the first law.

Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence except where this would conflict with the first or second laws.

Why have I brought this up? Well we humans could do we own versions of these laws. They would be a lot simpler.

PS This site was established by the robot co-op after all!

With These 11 Automatic Mental Patterns…

Self-explanatory

1) The Self-Image of a Success

2) Knowing Your Purpose “The Big Why”

3) Imagining/Visualizing Each Successful Step

4) Constant Mental Connection To Benefits Of Reaching Goal

5) Belief In Your Ability

6) Taking Appropriate Action

7) Enjoying Goal Achieving Actions

8) Finding Lessons In Goal Achieving Actions, Failures & Successes

9) Seeing Problems, Mistakes, Setbacks and Delays As Small

10) Knowing/Appreciating What You Receive From Success

11) High Standards: Pride In Your Efforts & Accomplishments

Copyright issues prevent me from reproducing this here so see link below for text of this prose poem. Hope it’s still active each time I click it!

Desiderata

I believe this to be inspirational and comforting – I hope that others find this to be true for themselves also.

Motivational? I think so…

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two imposters just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

When melancholy is upon me I find this poem fosters a spark of strength within me when I sub-vocalize it.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
  Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

Need to practice doing.

I don’t think I’m having as many negative thoughts about myself as I used to. I have really improved with this. I am more accepting of myself. I’m okay :)