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The mega-blockbuster movie What the Bleep Do We Know? examined positive thoughts and the energy of thought from a variety disciplines. In this film, the universe was considered as constructed from thought, or ideas, instead of substance. A blend of expert viewpoints from the fields of psychology, science, religion, medicine, mysticism, and spirituality emphasized the power of positive thinking and the imagination to change reality and create what we need in our lives. It was based upon some standards of quantum physics and our bodys physical reaction to our personal self-created emotional state.
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Creating reality by how one chooses to assume about life, health, relationships, and finances was the subject of the hit movie The Secret. Current self-help gurus discussed the Law of Attraction and other standards congruent with positive thinking. Building a positive mindset that attracted more priceless circumstances in ones life involved: (1) alignment to a transparent vision of what is desired, (2) an attitude of thankfulness, (three) having positive feelings associated with the wish, and (4) releasing that wish to a greater power.
Positive thinking is a discipline that trains the human mind to change a perceived reality by repeatedly making positive mental statements. A user practices positive thinking when they derive a positive sense of well being, optimism, belonging, meaning and/or purpose from being part of and contributing back to something larger and more permanent than themselves. Positive thinking is a process of deciding on positive feelings from stimuli in the environment and applying them to perceptions and beliefs. The objective is to create an outlook that translates into a new or more priceless chosen reality.
Positive psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on improving the mental functioning of human beings above that of normal mental health. Researchers in the field of positive psychology have examined how people optimally technologies, forecast, and savor the positive feelings and feelings which are part of healthy living. Despite a lack of empirical evidence behind their work, several humanistic psychologists, such as Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, and Carl Rogers, developed successful theories and practices that involved human happiness. Like Dispenza and other Bleep experts, they all argue that certain feelings brought on by stress do have a negative effect on the body that lead to ailment. Positive feelings help people relax back to their physiological baseline. When an individual feels positive feelings, they show heightened levels of creativity. In the long run, they can develop more resilience and ultimately flourish.
Practical applications of positive psychology include helping individuals and organizations correctly identify their strengths and use them to increase and sustain their respective levels of well-being.
Emmet Fox and The Mental Equivalent
Being addicted to ones feelings means a user lacks self-awareness and unconsciously searches for situations that will support old ideas. Like an adrenaline addiction, if one is addicted to the chemicals their body receives from certain emotional reactions, such as guilt, pain, suffering, or control, then they are going to unconsciously search for situations in life that supply that particular chemical boost. Thus, reality never adjustments until a user takes charge of their thoughts. Without conscious awareness of feelings and reactions to the environment, one can't reach their higher potential.
Experiencing Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
The Secret to Positive Thinking
A positive mental attitude is the belief that one can increase achievement via optimistic thought processes. A positive attitude comes from observational learning in the environment and is partially achieved when a vision of shrewdpermanent natured change in the mind is applied toward people, circumstances, events, or behaviors (Wikipedia). Since it is difficult to quantify (measure) the effects of a positive mental attitude, it is perhaps considered a philosophy and a way to approach life.
Fox also stressed the significance of positive thinking as a companion to developing clarity and passion when organizing an outlook on ones life. He believed the key to creating successful and prosperous circumstances with religious enrichment and material wealth was directly proportional to the mental concepts held in the mind. The Bible, he said, taught the power of positive thinking from beginning to end by giving metaphysics a religious and metaphorical language. To Fox, witnessing any demonstration or change in a personal condition began with furnishing a positive mental attitude, or mental equivalent, for what was desired. He believed negative external conditions in the world, such as poverty, ill health, or war were the embodiment of mental equivalents held by people everywhere.
In What the Bleep Joe Dispenza argued that thoughts pieced together create attitudes that later turn into beliefs. Beliefs secured together make perceptions, which are the way we interact with the world and develop relationships. As skills and duties are developed, people have the ability to act automatically taking into account the fact that the brain develops more neurological networks to assist with everyday functioning.
Ernest Holmes, the founder of the Religious Science movement, also known as Science of Mind, was a New Thought teacher. Religious Science, like many New Thought faiths, presented positive thinking as a way to create a foundation to understand the Universal Mind. Righteous thought included what a user thinks, believes, feels, visualizes, imagines, reads, and talks about which flows into the subconscious mind. It is an individuals path to putting the Universal Mind to work.
Recognize that change is required.
Holmes thought deciding on positive thoughts brought one closer to God and that a life filled with success was first created via the discipline of a positive mental attitude. In scientific prayer or affirmations the I AM, or the God principle, provided the basis of positive statements. Only to the degree that an individual could embrace the presence of God within, could they technologies wholeness or happiness. He believed all discord and negativity in life was attributed to a sense of separation from God. According to Holmes, the ultimate goal was to heal this mistaken belief by practicing unity with God, and consistent application of the Laws of Cause and Effect, The Laws of Attraction, and positive thought.
Dispenza believed that people can turn into trapped by these networks. Old, automatic mental programs that do not serve an individual well is perhaps replaced with more priceless, more productive thoughts. He discussed the concept of emotional addiction, where thoughts produce a biochemical reaction in the body. Emotions produce chemicals in the brain. He indicated that an individuals past mental programs are used to react to a gift situation. Since they are associated with chemicals in the brain, the body has a physiological reaction to environmental stimuli.
Adopting positive thinking with the intention of experiencing change is perhaps accomplished in a number of ways:
Since external conditions in the physical plane are the consequence of the mental equivalent held by a number of people, to change ones situation requires consistent positive. Thoughts have two qualities: (1) clarity, or definiteness, and (2) interest, or passion for the idea. Knowledge and feeling, he said, were the two key ingredients to produce a successful mental attitude that results in measurable change in a persons external environment. Fox emphasized building health, inspiration, your true place, or companionship required using fresh and persistent positive thoughts and understanding of God that all individual, including the user that is attempting the demonstration, knows that they are one with God. He believed thinking clearly and with feeling led to positive change taking into account the fact that you have then built a mental equivalent to invite whatever is desired into your life.
Let go of self-criticism and move forward when a challenge arises.
Release past negative experiences and move forward.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_mental_attitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Bleep_Do_We_Know!%3F
http://en.wikipedia.org/Science_of_mind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmation
What The Bleep Do We Know?
Live proactively.
Ernest Holmes and the Power of the Mind
The procedure of writing and repeating affirmations has been said to institute a positive mental attitude resulting in measurable change. An affirmation is a positive, present day statement that assumes what one declares is real and present. The more an affirmation is practiced, the mind has a greater the stage of acceptance of that thought. Positive thinking experts, such as Louise Hay, Michael Beckwith, James Arthur Ray, Catherine Ponder, Norman Vincent Peale, Napoleon Hill, and John Randolph Price advocated the use of affirmations to both reprogram the brain by repetition and declaring present moment centeredness. The desired result is to manifest new and positive circumstances.
The practice of positive thinking, repeated positive statements, and witnessing success via a positive mental attitude, is an idea many mystics and religious teachers have presented throughout history. Retiring certain feelings and breaking the addiction of old emotional states is a choice and requires persistent effort. A successful mental attitude that includes thoughts of gratitude, unconditional love, and freedom can translate into new perceptions of a persons perceived reality.
Experts posited that lifes conditions will be altered with a high degree of awareness over a persons everyday thought processes. This will be accomplished by making change from both the conscious stage of the mind as well as the subconscious. The conscious mind represents intention and willpower. The subconscious mind contributes to the vibration or energy of what human beings assume and is also said to control identification and behaviors. Automatic programs are created and reside in the subconscious mind, like shaving, typing, driving, washing dishes or performing duties automatically. These automatic mental programs are helpful to everyday human functioning. But when old, automatic programs involve hasty emotional reactions to present day events, then a user is said to be reacting to life and not fully living it.
Although What the Bleep Do We Know was widely criticized for illogical scientific conclusions, due to the its financial success and popularity, the general public seemed to embrace the next principals: (1) Thoughts do matter, (2) Nearly everyone has created automatic programs that influence the perception of their personal destiny, (three) Our physiological reactions to current day realities is perhaps changed by positive thinking and practicing a high stage of self-awareness, (4) Validation the effectiveness of positive thinking can only be determined by every one individual and the adjustments witnessed in their personal environment, and (5) Gaining dominion over your body and mind is the start of a personal mastery that leads to an empowered outlook on life.
Emmet Fox, a contemporary philosopher and New Thought minister, taught that the basis for all true productive expression was positive thinking. The procedure involved having conscious awareness of our everyday thought process and connectivity to God in order to realize any change or manifestation in the external environment. This concept was also taught by many mystics, including Rumi, Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, and others from across all wisdom traditions. Fox believed that the doctrine of the mental equivalent was an essential metaphysical teaching; the doctrine that you'll receive that for which you supply the mental equivalent. This is akin to the Law of Attraction where like energy attracts like energies and conditions. According to Fox, a lack of positive life conditions results from errors in thinking taking into account the fact that we always demonstrate our consciousness. Negative thinking, such as unforgiveness, fear, worry, self-doubt, and a lack of understanding of the unlimited nature of the individual soul and of God, is a habit that is perhaps unseated with discipline and self-awareness.
Give yourself permission to be accountable for your personal life.
Be thankful for what you have.
Practice verbal harmlessness. Identify and eliminate negative speech habits e.g., I cant, Ill try, or Ive never been able to.
Stay in present moment thinking and affirm powerful and positive thoughts regularly.
Since an affirmation declares ones state of mind and expectation, it acknowledges to the mind and body a gift-day reality. An example of an affirmation is the next: I am filled with wonder and I now manifest prosperity and abundance in every aspect of my life. I use the creative genius of the universe in all I do. I am successful, healthy, and live life well. This day I have the power to change myself.
The experts in The Secret emphasized an individuals responsibility to create and institute positive mental programming and present moment awareness to release emotional drivers that cloud a persons ability to have a productive life. Regret, disgrace, and blame and a negative outlook on life focused on past circumstances can also be fundamental cause of physical disease in adults. Similarly, physical healing is perhaps obtained creating a self-made vision. Demonstrating a healthy life with positive outcomes involves setting an intention, consciously creating a mental attitude of positive expectation, and conditioning the mind to accept navigate via grief, loss, anger with ease or deciding on to eliminate those mental attitudes altogether.
Affirmations are a religious idea, and non-quantitative. They are based upon as within, so without, as above so beneath which is an idea, or universal presented in many religious works, including the Bible. If thought attracts, or resonates, with like energies, than any individual practicing positive thinking can sooner or later see results externally in the form of a more robust job, more loving relationships, or maybe satisfying experiences.
Humans can turn into addicted to their emotional state when the body becomes dependent upon the chemicals it is accustomed to receiving regularly from certain emotional reactions to stimuli. For example stress, rage, or guilt may give the human body a surge of adrenaline to heighten awareness. A human start out can commit to live continually in a state of vigilance. When an individual creates feelings associated with people, places, events, circumstances, or maybe new relationships from the past, and the body can get addicted to the chemical reaction associated with those emotional exchanges. Often, the long run effects of living on negative feelings are unhealthy and cause the body to breakdown over time, e.g., lack of reasoning power and digestive disturbances.
Candace Pert and Bodily Reactions to Emotions
Believe change is viable. The brain is perhaps re-programmed to supply support in your life.
Affirmative Thinking and Affirmations
To see the advantages of positive thinking, a human replace negative feelings, such as anger, fear or worry, or low vainness with something new, such as forgiveness or creativity. Because of loose-will, an individual can create a new neurological network in the brain. Consequently, they are going to have a more favourable interpretation of their reality. Dispenza claimed that old programs are rooted in the subconscious and the subconscious mind always supports whoever we commit to be. If you recognize you can change, the brain will follow suit taking into account the fact that it is perhaps retrained to fire neurologically. However, relying upon some automatic programs is shrewdpermanent when the world is considered with more joy and compassion. Should a user commit to reprocess their reaction to their environment in order to break an existing pattern of negative thinking, over time the interruption will weaken the neurological networks in the brain and a new pattern is perhaps developed.
Practice awareness of your emotional state. Your internal state is what creates your external world.
Positive thinking is associated with empowerment taking into account the fact that an empowered thinker is one who masters their feelings and outlook on life. By being aware of our internal state, and how that translates into our reactions and behaviors, it is viable to develop the mind to support who we need to be, instead of being an effect of our world.
Know that you are composed of unlimited Divine Spirit and are an example of uniqueness and wonder.
Joe Dispenza and Breaking the Pattern of Negative Thinking
Influencing reality was viable via a persons mental process as well as the recognition of a universal energy source called God, Spirit, or Universal Intelligence that manifests as the physical universe. Holmes approach to a successful life was to do something about the power of the mind to create reality, in the form of religious mind cures. A treatment was a type of prayer, or procedure, that changed thought and cleared negativity, fear, and doubt while identifying with the presence of God. He taught that there was a natural law available for everyones use and that it was viable to create a new and wonderful technologies of reality with persistent and positive thinking.
This viewpoint was supported by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., author of Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, who researched receptor sites and peptides manufactured in the brain and how they cause bodily reactions to feelings. She believed thoughts not only have an affect on our physical bodies but on our goals. Emotions are the important thing element in self-care taking into account the fact that they allow us to enter into a body-mind conversation. Her implication was that adopting a new and positive perspective to ones life goes beyond observing who we are and what is real. It actually forms our realities and is dictated by physiological reactions to what we commit to assume and feel.
Positive Psychology
Have a positive vision for your life and for others around you.
