What is Positive thinking?

What is Positive thinking?

Thinking process is called Positive when it has certain values associated with it. In short they are enthusiasm, courage, tolerance, right vision, confidence, will power and faith. There are many more aspects which are applicable but these can be called the core values of positive thinking.

Enthusiasm: that all situations will help me grow by teaching me how to deal with them. I am willing to learn and enjoy the process of learning no matter what the result. There is no negative or positive result. Result is the lessons I will be learning and not the resultant situations.

Courage: I know that I do not understand the situation and I am taking the risk of loosing some thing material or my good or not so good image in others view. Though I am afraid and not so sure of the consequences, I have the courage to move forward in all the difficulties.

Tolerance: I willingly and happily accept all the consequences and pains in the process of dealing with the situations and decisions. I do not despair or blam any one for the losses and setbacks. I am prepared to and shall enjoy tolerating all such difficulties as they are for my good.

Right Vision: All the relationships, money and material possessions I have and that which I shall have will come and go but the lessons, values and good principles I learn in this process will enrich my life and make it worth living for my self and contribute to the development of the society. So I am not attached to the people, money or property but to the values and principles for the benefit of the world.

Confidence: I believe in the right values and growth. I know that no matter what the consequences and situations I shall encounter, I shall always gain an new experience and learn new lessons. So I can never fail in life. I may loose some things or many things but shall always enrich my life with the experiences and lessons life has thought me. I shall never loose hope because there is no loosing as I remain unattached to material gains and losses.

Will power: I am responsible for all my decisions and actions. I choose to win and shall win by choosing to never give up. Only one who gives up looses. Every failure shall be my stepping stone to success.

Faith: I am bound to succeed in the end. All the world and all the situations I am facing and that I shall face are put together to give me the shortest path to success. No one can stop me from success as I have chosen success as my birth right.

Learning to Learn to be Happy

Last month i met a small boy of about 10 years while on a trip to Southern parts of India, who told me that he got tensed and felt stress when he lost in games and i was supposed to help him come out of the stress.
I asked him, "how do you come out of stress? you are not stressed all the time. you seem to be happy most of the time".
He said, "I don't know, I just forget stress after some time."

One solution he told for coming out of stress is to forget stress and you will be happy. it was so simple but profound lesson. As adults, it becomes difficult for us to forget like children do because of deeper attachments. One can to overcome these attachments by practicing regular and systematic meditation.

I asked him, "do you like learning to play the game better or new game?"
He said "Yes. I feel happy when i learn something new"
I said, "when ever you loose try to learn what you need to learn to win. when you learn you will never become stressed for loosing. You will be happy because you have learned some thing new."

when we feel we are loosing in life it is because we are not focusing on learning. we can never loose anything when we learn something. We fail some times because we attempted to do something which we have not yet learned. when we learn we go closer to success. Then it is said "Every failure is the stepping stone to success". we can always remain happy by learning to learn from every failure. Once we practice this then there is no reason or place for misery, stress or loosing in life. This is the simple way to be happy. Learn a new lesson and be happy. Boy was satisfied.

Did you learn meditation? Meditation is the way to learn the process of learning to be Happy.