“VERILY THE MOST NECESSARY THING IS CONTENTMENT UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES; BY THIS, ONE IS PRESERVED FROM MORBID CONDITIONS AND FROM LASSITUDE. YIELD NOT TO GRIEF AND SORROW: THEY CAUSE THE GREATEST MISERY. JEALOUSY CONSUMETH THE BODY AND ANGER DOTH BURN THE LIVER:
AVOID THESE TWO AS YOU WOULD A LION.” — Baha’u’llah
“NOTHING HAS ANY POWER OVER ME OTHER THAN THAT WHICH I GIVE IT THROUGH MY CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS.”— Anthony Robbins
“ALL BAD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END.” — Raw Aphorism
In order for you to remain in the “flow” all the time, in order for you to achieve the health levels you desire daily, you must be able to convert negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
You can create an aura of positive energy around you by a positive mental attitude. A positive outlook means confidently expecting to learn and benefit from every situation. When you are in the right frame of mind, any obstacle may be transformed in a moment into greater effort that will bring you closer to the massive success of which you are capable.
Attitude is everything. A bad attitude does not come by chance — it is constructed by negative thoughts and emotions.
Negative emotions are always harmful. They serve no useful purpose. They poison and acidify the body. Negative emotions are the primary reason why people fail to achieve the highest levels of material and spiritual success. Feelings of doubt and fear always lead to failure.
If you experience negative emotions in your life, let them flow through you rather than bottle them within you. You can dispel negative emotions physically by: hitting, kicking, yelling and/or biting. Dispel anger by driving a golf ball, kicking a football, screaming aloud and/or chewing dark green-leafy vegetables or grasses. Let the anger pass through you into the physical object. Transmute anger into positive action.
You can dispel negative emotions through normal exercise (although not as quickly as through the methods mentioned above). Dancing, lifting weights, surfing or walking are all effective ways to manage negativity.
You can also dispel negative emotions mentally by reframing the experience, by changing what the experience means to you. When you look for the good in any situation, then the good looks for you and you dispel negativity.
All experiences may be transmuted into useful service. No experience need be a negative mental liability. Through the power of thought, one may transform sadness to happiness in a nano-second. Your ability to reframe any situation, to find the positive benefit, is unlimited.
It is not what happens to you, but your reaction to what happens to you that counts. No mental challenge is stressful in itself, only your response to a mental challenge can cause stress.
Nothing is entirely good or bad for you until you say so. If you believe that everything which happens to you in life contains some good within it, then everything will come forth to strengthen you and help you to rise to another level of consciousness.
Problems are challenges; challenges are good; challenges are inevitable. Every challenge in your life is heaven-sent to teach you a valuable physical and spiritual lesson. Every challenge contains its gift.
Use your willpower to keep any disappointment from dampening your spirit. Every disappointment builds character, knowledge, strength and stamina. Use each setback as a stepping-stone for advancement.
Accept defeat as an inspiration to greater effort and carry on with the belief that you will succeed. Convert defeat into a challenge to greater effort.
Most people sense intuitively that there is another side to life — a better way. But when they advance towards it, they are struck by a bombardment of contradictory information and negativity that stumbles them. This is the test you must pass to achieve success. Napoleon Hill discovered in researching his Laws Of Success that the greatest achievers he interviewed found their greatest successes just beyond their greatest failures. So, even following an enormous perceived failure, keep yourself in a state of total resourcefulness and you will eventually succeed. Success lies on the far side of failure.
There is one unbeatable rule for mastering frustrations and disappointments, and that is to accept the lesson learned and continue to work diligently and intently towards one’s goals. Use strong emotions, whether positive or negative, to inspire the creation of ideas through your imagination, then take action upon those ideas.
You are in control. You either make yourself miserable, or you make yourself strong. The amount of work is the same. In fact, it takes even more energy to be miserable than to be strong. It takes more energy to be a “paranoid” than to be an “inverse paranoid.” Consider this: it takes 13 muscles to smile and 112 muscles to frown.
An inverse paranoid is someone who believes the universe is conspiring to do them good. The personality of the inverse paranoid is characterized by a positive mental attitude. A positive mental attitude is one of the best indicators of how healthy a person really is. Due to a positive mental attitude, the inverse paranoid is always more likely to succeed.
The inverse paranoid expects to win and is always swift to make decisions based on intuitive feeling without fear or regret. My experience has been to always trust my gut feeling.
The inverse paranoid trusts her/his instincts — with “instinct” as a direct download of information from infinite intelligence.
The inverse paranoid continues to smile and expect the best results, in even the worst situations. The mind of the inverse paranoid is a transformer that takes all challenges and transmutes them into creative opportunities. Every discordant word and thought becomes transformed into greater things.
The inverse paranoid calls upon spiritual powers through which obstacles may be removed at will. That spiritual power changes the biochemistry of the mind and body to access greater resources to overcome any challenge.
In my journal I have written the following: “Nature is conspiring to do me good, to keep me young, and to place me at the top of the world.” That is the attitude of the inverse paranoid.
Indian philosophy explains that once we state something ten thousand times it becomes a mantra, a thought form that shapes the future. The word “mantra” in its Sanskrit derivation is a combination of two words “man” (thought) and “tra” (liberation). A mantra should be a thought of liberation. The slogan, mantra, or motto of the inverse paranoid is: “Today is the best day ever!” Try saying that aloud or to yourself ten thousand times! I have — and the results are revolutionary.
1 Understand the messages of failure and pain. Failure and pain speak one language — they directly communicate to us what kind of change must take place. They tell you where you have gone wrong and where you have gone right. They chart your course and tell you when and where you are off target.
2 The next time you are faced with a boring, stressful, intense, extreme, hilarious or silly situation, say to yourself: “Today is the best day ever.” Repeat this over and over in your mind as much as possible.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT, EMBRACE IT
From:
Frustration to
Fascination.
Bust to
Boom.
Misery to
Magic,
Thrilled,
And Ecstatic.
Disgust to
Delight.
Heavy to
Light.
Weakness to
Might.
Shadow to
Sun.
Fear to
Fun.
By power of mind
You’ll discover and find
You can go from:
Vanquished to
Victorious.
Drab to
Glorious.
Tense to
Joyous.
Don’t worry about it,
Embrace it.
Every adversity carries,
A seed of great benefit.
Substitute good thoughts
For bad.
Happy thoughts
For sad.
Rule your brain,
Join the few.
You can only think:
One thought, not two!
Go from:
Devastation to
Procreation.
Labor to
Recreation.
Irritation to
Innovation.
Desperation to
Inspiration.
Turn it around,
You’re in control.
Why not happily attain
Your every goal?
Worse is better.
From anger
To laughter,
And sorrow
To smiles.
Go from rags to riches
In the shortest of
Whiles.
Don’t hate,
Feel great.
Lift yourself up to
The highest state.
You are the master, of
Your fate.
Failure to
Success.
Insult to
Jest.
Worst to
Best!
Don’t grieve,
But perceive:
What happens,
Happened.
Its already the past.
Only in your mind,
Can an event last.
Stress won’t ever change it.
Don’t worry about it —
Embrace it.