Retaining your sense of hope in times of despair does much more than help your own sense of positive self image; it also creates the pathway to more productive solutions rather than merely creating a negative outlook on life! - WD Allan

There isn't one individual walking the earth today who hasn't at one point or another felt the shadow of despair move over them. It's in the human condition to feel it and yes, it's entirely natural. What seems to be increasingly forgotten nowadays however is the force and the power that is facilitated through a true sense of hope regarding yourself, your life, and those thankfully rare situations that create feelings of dread regarding life. What do we do to turn around a negative attitude about life? This is much easier than it might seem...

There is one school of thought that claims that mere rational thinking offsets irrational responses to living situations and that logical thinking alone indicates good life choices. Who can argue about this really? I mean think about the premise of this argument for a moment and anyone who is ready to admit it would have to agree that there is something to be said for trying to think rationally in what otherwise seems to be irrational times.

What of the emotional effects over time however?

Oh yes, these are also very real effects onto the spirit and even onto our physical selves if they are left unattended to long enough and if entirely declined as being real these effects can even begin to spiral the very quality of life right down into the gutter!

Admitting to the presence of a negative attitude can be the very cognitive fuel that may be necessary to begin to steer a person's ill fated self-determined course onto a brighter path and in many cases this begins with learning to integrate that very same rational outlook with a positively charged emotional response to any situation! Yes, you read that correctly!

Begin to learn to integrate the rational with the positive emotional and let the two begin to send waves of changing positivity into all aspects of your life!

Have you ever wondered why so many therapists, clergy, advertising professionals, helpers and even why politicians so adore using positively charged canned phrases and lines of talk that are geared to turn people's anger and despair into productive self-talk that interjects a sense of hope regarding some given situation? We have all seen them, read them, heard them, and yes, we have all been affected by them in many ways to many ends.

The key here is to begin to think and talk in the same crafted ways to ourselves on a daily basis and really begin to let these sink into the conscious thought process!

It is a matter of thinking this way again and again and again and again, over and over, minute after hour and day after day. At first such self-talk may very well seem like an abundance of thoughtful work that just isn't worth it given the fast paced atmosphere that humankind has now invented for itself!

Some might ask; "Who the heck has time to stand or sit here or there and try to think "RATIONALLY POSITIVE" about so many different life situations?

The answer is that we all can and it doesn't take all that long. It merely takes a flash moment of time in which to stop and remind yourself that there are always possibilities, that there are always alternatives, that you always have a source of good decision making and positive self thought within you that can and will alter any bad or ill situation and turn it into virtual golden results!

Famous businessmen know about this and practice it on a daily basis!

Famous politicians know about this and practice it on a daily basis!

Influential people in all professions and lifestyles hold their own internal clues and cues regarding this thinking and over time they learned that to change life into positive ends meant turning their own behavior and thinking around!

It works...

Try it out and see, and for heavens sake, kick the negativity to the curbside and leave it there!

It does you no good!

Think about it...

As Always,

WD Allan

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