Are you using your mind power?

Question

to change negativity in your life?

If we fight every negative thought with a positive one, do you think we have a chance to happiness?

Answer 1

yes and you are kind of off the deep end buster!

Answer 2

most certainly yes

Answer 3

only if you reinforce those positive thoughts with proactiveness  to put them in motion.   You can never counter all negativity because its in our nature to be aware of the risks associated with life. However you can sensibly prepare for them and proactively enact changes in your own life to bring about happiness

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Answer 4

Looking on the positive side all the time would be too hard to do.  That is like saying i just go fired, but atleast someone else is making my money.  It can't happen, sorry.

Answer 5

yes. that is how i am almost all of the time. and i can honestly say i am truely happy with my life and everyone im surrounded by.

Answer 6

of course why not?

Answer 7

Absolutly!!!

Answer 8

sometimes....and somtimes i dont

Answer 9

h**l, no! I mean, yes, it's worth a try.

Answer 10

i am using my mind power to see if i can get women to randomly take off their clothes.

Answer 11

People don't realize how powerful their mind is. If everybody would stay focus on the positive things that happen to them there wouldn't be so much sadness and self pity and depressed people. How can you feel sorry for yourself when you lost a 20 $ bill when you have a home, a car, a job, children, health...we are so used to take all this for granted...

Thank you  for a great question.

Answer 12

One opinion:  "Fighting" and "striving" are perhaps two distinct emotions.

Simply moving against is fighting; striving is perhaps also moving beyond, even per unifying opposite polarities such as yang and yin.

Would suggest higher mindfulness is "this Mind which was also in Christ Jesus," and the Way up and out, to overcoming, and suchlike.

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"Kundalini West," Ann Ree Colton,

"Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov,

"To Live Within," Lizelle Reymond,

"Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda,

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer,

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com

http://www.integralscience.org

http://www.megagenius.com

http://www.dreamhealer.com

http://www.dreamviews.com

http://www.heartmath.org

http://www.noetic.org

http://www.carolbowman.com are some examples.

Answer 13

A thought is vacuous without an association to a particular emotion. That is, unless you can attack that thought to a desire, only then can you achieve some vague sense of happiness.

For example: lets say I grow up and am influenced by TV to the point where I believe that if I own a Ferrari one day, then I will be happy. The reality is that I am (for some odd reason) associating the desire of a Ferrari with the positive thought of happiness/fulfillment. This means that, in the long run, my chances of being happy (of owning a Ferrari) are not very good (If I am the average person).

Now lets say (for some reason), I am able to associate the thought of coffee in the morning with happiness. In this case, I have associated the thought of happiness with the stimulus of coffee. In that case, I have a higher probability of realizing this "happiness."

The question is, why do people associate certain thoughts which certain events/objects/stimuli when they know nothing of the latter?

How does the person above know that a Ferrari will bring him happiness if he never had one? Why are so many rich/famous people not happy.

Further, do we have the ability to, at will, associate desire to any given thought? That is, can we convince ourselves, at will, that things produce happiness? What is the link between the Ferrari/coffee/iphone/etc and the feeling/thought of happiness? Is it in our hands?

I don't want to get too in depth with the contingencies of this line of thought, but, in short, if we could control the association of a thought with the realization of an emotion, then we could all be happy; I could convince myself that napkins produce happiness!

This is very arbitrary and muddled in relativity.

Answer 14

I'd really rather use my mind power to move inanimate objects, but since telekinesis is not so much with the happening...

o.O;  I don't know.  I'm generally a content person.  And my memory just plain sucks, so negative thoughts tend to fall out pretty easily anyway.  ^^