The Value o a Positive Mind

 

20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart,daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

The effect of a positive mind cannot be minimized. To get your mind right is key to a happy life. In every life events or people will come along that detract from forging ahead, keep your eye on the goal. And you don’t even have to win if you perceive winning. Illness, strife and the gloomy clouds of depression sap your attention, and it takes as many brain cells to throw up your hands as it does to throw up a fist. And this makes people mad.

Do you think the sounds of appreciation around you are genuine? No. Very few really feel your joy when you score a goal. Most are disappointed that the hanging didn’t go ahead as planned. About the only ones who are pleased at your success have a vested interest in that success.

Don’t let naysayers rain on your parade. If they couldn’t slander your past, they will ruin your future when you rise above the crowd. They do this because it challenges their existence. With defeat dominating their lives a failure on your part proves, at least to them, They must justify their mundane existence with any hair-brained idea they found on the internet or sucked out of a vape because the reality of life is unthinkable to them. And an inch is as good as a mile while following the garble from some woke guru’s lips. So long as it supports their abominations, and they can use it to make you as miserable as they are.

But can positivity actually change physical conditions or shape events? Yes! Victory is perceived. When you focus on rewards the downside fades and is ignored. The brain works that way. If you are enjoying your chicken fried steak don’t concern yourself with the people at the next table eating prime rib. It all comes out in the end. (Sorry about that.)

If you are in the entertainment industry some will always ask, “How much money have you made?” They don’t ask a plumber that. Or a doctor.  But they will ask a musician or producer that every time. They want you to fail because it makes their shriveled up little world just a bit more tolerable. As bad as things are at least I’m ahead of that!

You combat this by maintaining positivity. By not glorying that fall of your fellows because as good as you think it makes you feel your sunny disposition and even minor successes far overshadows any obstacles that come your way.

Now ask yourself: What does more good, the carnival  atmosphere of Peter Popoff or Kenneth Copland or the steady measured positivity of Jesus? Fact: Life happens! People fail. People die. Planes crash. Wives run off with the gardener. There are wars and rumors of wars. Most attention getting events are downers. Sometimes a positive attitude is all you have.  You can’t change that. Take a sad song and make it better. Counterbalance the bad with the good. You can’t erase the bad. Manage it. But mainly stay positive. Be the solution.

 Nothing is as bad as it seems. The destruction of the universe can only kill you once. And believe! Did Jesus have to do a miracle to help the woman with the issue of blood? Or did her acceptance adjust it? Her mind was right.

A positive attitude can improve health. Just the little actions it generates make the road a little less bumpy. Pull off the freeway onto a country road. Don’t second guess life. That last breath will come. Enjoy the rides .