Good things will come…

 …when you believe they will.  

I’ve, for a long time, been a believer of positive thinking.  How, focusing attention on what is good, on the good we want to experience, on the good we want to project towards others, we can cause good to happen.  There is a lot of truth in the phrase "mind over matter."  It’s not magic, it’s not "the power of the universe" or "the Force" in Star Wars, it’s simply the practice of drawing towards oneself the good that is already around us by choosing to keep a positive attitude and focusing only on what is right and good.  

How many of us have started a day when it just felt like everything was going to go wrong?  We got out of bed and immediately we thought, "Ugh, I feel like crap, it’s going to be a crappy day."  Chances are, the day really did turn out to be crappy.  Not because we attracted the negative "crappiness" towards us, but, because we made up our mind from the very beginning of the day that we were not going to enjoy it, that we were not going to have a good day, and because we convinced ourselves of this, we did not have a good day.  

Our attitude effects our mood and our moods effect the outcome of our days.  

On the other hand, if I had decided that it was going to be a good and happy day, and chose to act accordingly, my perceptions of that day, no matter what happened, would have resulted in a positive attitude that actually made it a good day for me.  

Over the past five years, I have forgotten this.  Or, rather, I fell out of the practice of thinking positively.

We can’t always prevent bad things from happening, but we can always control how we react to it.  A good example would be when I first started experiencing the effects of illness.  Not knowing I was anemic, I became confused over my failing health.  Not having health insurance at the time, I wasn’t able to get diagnosed.  Of course, I couldn’t positively "think" myself well again, but, I could have chosen not to think negatively about it.  When I finally did find out the cause of why I was feeling so physically ill, and had the means to correct it, I had already fallen into the poor habit of negative thinking.  

I remember very vividly telling my Mom that this operation (the hysterectomy) was just the beginning of a downward spiral of deteriorating health and old age.  Because I focused on the negative and convinced myself of this, I became more and more ill and less and less able to function.  I created worse health through my attitude and negative thinking.  I made what I believed would happen, actually happen.  What would have just been a matter of dealing with an illness that could eventually be treated, I, by choice, brought on more misery, depression and anxiety that magnified and increased my illness.

When we choose to be negative about things, we begin to perceive things in a negative way and tend to draw more negativity towards us.  Adversely, if we choose to think positively about things, we will perceive things in a more positive way which will draw more positive results.  

Today, my friends, is going to be a good day.  I will choose to focus only on what is good in my life and give no mind to what isn’t.  In spite of my health, as it is, I will choose to act as if it isn’t as bad as I previously perceived it to be and only focus on what is healthy and strong about my body, mind and soul.

I will focus on the source of all positivity.
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I will focus on God, the creator and sustainer of all things good.

Have a good and Blessed day today.  🙂