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I have been doing some soul searching recently. I realized that I have been thinking negatively about many aspects of my life, both personally and globally. Part of it is due to the bombardment of injustices going on every day in America; part of it is just my own habit of seeing the glass half empty. I’ve written before that I tend to think more pessimistically than I do optimistically. Some of that is my own doing, and some is the way I grew up and the people I was around. I have control over my thoughts if I really want to change them. I’ve written before about how being mindful and changing negative thoughts into positive ones can improve our state of mind. In this post, I’m diving deeper into positive thinking, what it is, and how to master the art of thinking more positively. 

It took a minute to find some inspiration for this post. It seems that the overwhelm I feel with the current political climate has made my brain into a mush sandwich. It reminds me of when the Covid-19 Pandemic caused world-wide confusion and changes for our daily routines. I found myself stuck in a rut without any motivation due to the virus, and I have no motivation now due to…another virus, this one in the form of a man, consequently the same man who nonchalantly brushed off the Pandemic and the thousands of Americans dying each day like water on a duck’s back.

Typically during the last weeks of the old year, people set goals or intentions for themselves to carry through into the next. The most common ones include weight loss, exercising more, saving more money, watching less television or social media, or drinking less caffeine. Some less common ones might be being more mindful, starting a meditation practice, or getting more sleep. 

Sometimes we say we want to work on ourselves, but it’s normally in a vague sense of, perhaps thinking more positively or communicating more effectively with the people in our lives. We even may set our sights on altering a personality trait that has been our vice for a long time. Granted, we can’t change everything about ourselves, nor would we want to completely. However, we can work on cultivating more positive attributes from what we already have, or amplifying those areas where we may lack.