Positive Thinking

It is important to clarify some misconceptions regarding positive thinking,
since some people think that a positive thinker always goes round with a
good-natured smile on their face thinking that everything is hunky-dory.
Whatever happens, they will just tell you to keep smiling. Others believe
that positive thinking turns us into timid and weak people.

It is not like that though. The more we understand and experiment with our
own inner qualities and powers, the stronger we become and less we depend on
others. Knowing our own weaknesses can also help us to become stronger and
more stable people.

*Why do we want to be positive? *Because being positive means being in
harmony. Just as our bodies are 80 per cent water and this is the element
that we most need daily, so our inner selves also need positivity, because
that is what it is.

We spend our lives in search of peace, happiness, love, truth and knowledge,
our most genuine qualities. What we are looking for in our lives, what we
are longing for, we already possess in our inner selves. We simply have to
rediscover it through reflection and meditation.
Positive thinking is a mental attitude. It is a way of seeing life. It means
doing things with assertiveness. It is a way of behaving and taking a
position before events, situations and people.