Positive Mind Attitude (PMA) Is Powerful

I remember on the 17th of August 2011, how I waged war against my room in search of the money my Mum had given me to secure for her. I was scared that I had lost the money and spent hours upon hours, scattering and turning my room upside down. All of a sudden, I remembered Napoleon Hill's book on positive thinking and immediately changed my action.

Obviously, what I had been doing was not working because my mind was already accepting my fear that the money was lost. I therefore decided to sit down, be calm and go into the positive mood. As soon as I became optimistic, removed every doubt and fear from my mind, things became clearer. Within minutes I remembered exactly where I had put the money; I looked and found it right there in my jacket in the wardrobe.

PMA (Positive Mind Attitude) is the positive and correct mental response to any incoming stimulus from your senses". The mind is very powerful, you just may not know to what extent and the amount of power your mind wields. According to N. Hill, "we are mind in a body". Our emotions, actions and perspective on life is as a result of how our minds react to the circumstances and events in our lives, be it positive or negative; it enables you teach and develop your mind to react positively to circumstances and events.

A positive mindset helps you understand that every problem contains the seed to its own solution, thus helping you see things from a positive point of view and also building your optimism. There are a lots of benefits from being positive; some of the benefits are;

• You build hope and overcome despair or discouragement. 

• Your state of mind stays consistently healthy and productive. 

• Situations and circumstances of life will no longer easily overwhelm you. 

• You develop an honest, well-balanced way of thinking. 

• It helps you develop a successful consciousness. 

• You develop the ability to handle situations with the correct actions and reactions.

In order to have a positive mind attitude, you need to work on consistently yourself; it is not a once-in-a-blue-moon attitude. Constant practice of certain actions, like using self-motivators, will make PMA a habit.

For example, if you dwell on self-doubt, you can use affirmations like "I can, I will" or "What I can conceive and believe, I can achieve" as your self - motivator.

Write down your self-motivator(s) and paste them at strategic places, where you can see them at all times, and also recite them aloud as much as you can before going to bed at night. By doing these, you are taking control of your mind and emotions and channeling them positively towards achieving your goals with optimism and pure mind.

A positive mind attitude attracts good people and good things; so develop and practice it, and you'd be awed at the tremendous benefits that come with it.

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5 Ways to Cope With a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

How to make over your mood

We’ve all had days that are a cascade of problems: Your car breaks down; you wait two hours at the doctor’s office; a client or boss is unreasonable; a heel comes off a shoe. Here are ways to deal with negative emotions from these mini-disasters:

1. Recognize that luck changes. These things even out. You’ll soon hit a stretch of things going right rather than wrong.

2. Be gentle with yourself. Set an intention that you’ll be kind to yourself while you wait for the universe to dish out kindness again.

3. Treat yourself. Sometimes you need a dose of positive emotion to increase your resilience. Come up with a short mental or written list of five simple things that reliably boost your mood; indulge when warranted by circumstances. For instance: Buy food you like but seldom buy, get a massage, or pick up a new book.

4. Accomplish something small on your agenda. A positive mood comes from a combination of pleasure and a sense of mastery—feeling you’re competent and can get things done. On frustrating, demoralizing and out-of-control days, you’ll feel better by laying claim to something productive. Identify quick mastery tasks you can handle amid the day’s fires. These might include putting a hook on your wall so you don’t keep losing your keys, backing up treasured photos that are on your phone, testing/changing your smoke detectors’ batteries—anything that instills a sense of basic competence and helps you regain a feeling of some control.

5. Recognize the impact of events. When I worked as a therapist, clients frequently overlooked or underestimated the impact of stressful events and frustrations on their moods. It’s easier to cope with a single frustrating incident than with a series of blows in quick succession. You’ll feel better if you embrace the knowledge that many stressors are temporary one-off events or random incidents of bad luck.

http://www.success.com/article/5-ways-to-cope-with-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day

5 Ways to Make Yourself Happier in the Next 5 Minutes

... and you'll be surprised how long the good feeling lasts

Happiness is a lifelong pursuit of meaning, purpose, and fulfilment. But while it could take years of persistence to deeply transform your life, there are scientifically-tested strategies that have been shown to provide an immediate happiness boost. Such activities provide a modest but lingering increase in happiness, but when practised consistently over time, they become happiness habits, energizing you to live your dreams and passions.

Here are 5 such strategies that you can practice right now, to get a shot of healthy psychological nutrients:

1. Do some jumping jacks.

Aerobic exercise boosts one’s positive mood. In 2005, Researchers at Chicago State University and the University of Minnesota analyzed 158 different studies conducted between 1979 and 2005 [1]. They found that the effect of aerobic exercise was consistently positive, and was especially noticeable when one started an exercise session while feeling a little more "down" than usual. In other words, physical exercise can lift you up when you need it the most. In a more recent study, researchers at Halmstad University in Sweden analyzed 15 different studies and found that physical exercise can be an effective treatment of mild and moderate depression [2]. Body and mind are inseparable. A couple of minutes of jumping jacks may go a very long way.

2. Call a friend or family member.

Positive social connections are a cornerstone of happiness and health [3]. A conversation with a friend can have a lasting positive effect, increasing your energy and cultivating motivation. In fact, simply belonging to a social group or having a minimal personal connection with another person creates lasting and significant drive [4]. If there are people around you right now whom you like and appreciate, walk up to one and talk with them—or pick up the phone and say hi.

3. Write down 3 things you are grateful for.

Many people maintain a journal in which they write down the things for which they are grateful. The simple exercise of acknowledging your good fortune by identifying “three good things,” has been shown to provide both an immediate and lasting effect on happiness [5]. In a study published in 2012, positive psychologists Stephen Schueller and Acacia Parks tested this strategy in an online setting [6] and found that the benefits lasted as long as six months. A small uptick for six months in return for just five minutes of writing is a pretty good deal.

4. Imagine the best-case outcome for your near future.

Research consistently shows that imagining your “best possible self” makes you significantly more optimistic [7], delivering a range of positive emotions. When I met with coach Caroline Miller during Ride of Your Life and asked her about the path to inner peace, she suggested to “pretend” being an optimist when thinking about the future: “The world is a random set of events to pessimists. Optimists, on the other hand, believe they control the things around them. So, in some ways, you have to pretend you’re an optimist.”

In line with common belief, thinking positively (yet realistically) about the future is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Take a few minutes to imagine and write down the best-case scenario for the coming months or years. You may be surprised to discover how bright this possible future may be.

5. Set an intention for the day.

One of the most established and validated models of psychological wellness was published by Carol Ryff of the University of Wisconsin nearly 20 years ago [8]. It includes six elements that constitute happiness, of which one’s autonomy is the most prominent. Setting a daily intention to guide your day puts you in the driver’s seat, where you can make conscious decisions, rather than react to incoming demands. You may not be able to get your way all the time, but simply being aware of what you intend to accomplish will provide you with a sense of purpose, and an opportunity to be consistent in the way you interact with the world.

If you’ve made it here to the end of this post, give it a shot right now — what is your daily intention?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/confessions-techie/201407/5-ways-make-yourself-happier-in-the-next-5-minutes