Plus or Minus

hen life gets you down how do you try to climb your way back to the top? Ive done a lot of reading and research on various theories concerning the way we think and how that affects the way we live. If you are negative you bring negative things to you, if you are positive you bring positive things to you...it all sounds good in theory, but is it true?

Sometimes I get angry to think I bring bad luck or negativity to myself...I would rather believe its just random--not due to my thinking...but just a random thing...like water falling from the sky during a rain storm...no one can predict how much rain will fall or exactly where it will land...we know its coming but how intense is it going to be?

I used to not allow myself to get happy, thinking that soon a non happy time would follow and those thoughts didn't help me to feel better when the hard times came, only made it worse...so now I try to live in the moment...try to enjoy that moment, and push whatever may be giving me reason to become unhappy back far away from my NOW moment. This way I'm not experiencing the negative...preferring to stay in the positive as much as possible and if and when I'm drawn out of that happy state, I wish to get back to a state of balance as quickly as possible!

My Mom has suffered with depression much of her adult life...for one reason or another. She often picks the sad parts of life and dwells on that. I try to fix up sad things and make them better, so whatever is making me sad will be more in alignment with my happiness than the other way....bringing me into alignment with the sadness. If you chose to draw it in, then you have to own it, but you can change the way you see it.

The recent event of the dog not getting proper feeding....my Mom chooses to feel really bad for the dog and experience sadness, I chose to make a call to animal control and try to change what is making me sad into an opportunity to make a difference to another being. Whether my action will have a positive result remains to be seen, but I don't feel sad, I feel good about my action.

Positive thinking can be undermined by forces working against us. Negative people will try to sway you to their camp...but don't let that happen--If you have to make new friends...ones that make you feel good and support who you are. Accentuate the positive!