Chapter 4 101 Affirmations for Positivity, Happiness and Vitality Repeat the affirmations listed below for a period of 21 days and you will not only start thinking more positively but you will see and feel the difference in your life and also the positivity and opportunities that you attract in your life. Reiterating the affirmations for a period of 21 days will help you form a habit of positive thinking and help you eliminate the habit of negative thinking. Even if you do have negative thoughts you will know how to counteract it and replace it with positive thoughts. I love and accept Myself I feel enthusiastic and confident in what life has to offer. I am more friendly and helpful and this attracts positive people in my life. …show more content…
I am confident and my self-esteem is unlimited. I have positive and loving thoughts. I am filled with positive energy and vitality. My happiness is growing. I am in control of my life. I am making a positive difference to my life and everyone else around me. I now eliminate all negativity. I am in total control of my life. I can control my thoughts and make them more positive. I see positivity in all the circumstances of my life. My life is significant. I choose to feel better everyday I love and accept myself the way I am. I have great skills and talent that I put to use every day. I exude happiness and joy. I possess a lot of energy and vitality. I have a healthy and nourished body. I have a perfect life. I am calm and peaceful. I am ready to live the life of my dreams. I am making every effort to achieve my goals. I am strong and willing to make my dreams into a reality. I am passionate about everything I do. I am treated with respect by everyone around me. Happiness and bliss are my natural state of being Life has unlimited amounts of gifts to offer. I believe in being forgiving and letting go. I am generous and …show more content…
I give myself permission to enjoy the good things in life. Abundance is everywhere around me. I am now on the road to success and prosperity. I expect the best and I acquire the best. I was destined to succeed and I do so effortlessly and easily. I release any doubt and fear about my potential to achieve success. I appreciate myself often. I accept my unlimited wealth and abundance. All my goals help me achieve greater abundance and happiness. I am successful and I exude abundance. I seize opportunities every single day that leads to my immense success. I am worthy of the wealth and luxury I desire. I am grateful for my success and abundance. My positive beliefs create my reality and I believe in my limitless success. My positive beliefs allow me to have more than I ever imagined possible. I add value to this world and my life is important. I believe that I have an ability to create wealth and abundance. I possess expertise and abilities that I use to achieve my success. I now have the life I dreamed of. Everything I do adds more value to my wealth and abundance. I expect only the finest and I receive
Taking the following questionnaire: Satisfaction with Life Scale, Approaches to Happiness Scale, and Authentic Happiness Inventory, helped me evaluate my life. Many times due to circumstance we forget in what positon our life is standing at the moment. We forget how much we have accomplished in the past and how much we have invested to make our future a good one. For the Satisfaction with life scale, I score a 33(love their life and feel that everything is going very well). People may might say well she is living a perfect life, but to be honest is not that is being perfect, is that one day years ago I made a decision of not letting anything take away what I have worked hard for. According to Earl & Carol Diener, because positive moods energize approach tendencies, it desirable that people on average be in a positive mood (1996). If I make a mistake, which is possible because am human, what I do is learn from it. It’s like what the Apostol from the church I go to says” you control life, not life controlling you.”
If someone thinks negatively towards something the outcome will not be good, and vice versa. Thinking you can achieve the American dream is a major key in doing so, and some Americans are already on the right track. In the U.S., a survey showed that 36 percent of Americans say they have achieved the dream, and another 46 percent believe they are on the path of achieving it. It is not so easy, though, to always look on the bright side. Sometimes it seems as if nothing is going right; that is when negativity occurs. People can argue that mindset has little impact on the outcome, or that it does not matter how positive a person is because some things are just not meant to be. An article, however, proves this wrong. The paper argues how negative emotions prevent humans from flourishing; it also states, “if your ratio of positive to negative emotions is greater than 2.9013 to one, you will flourish both physically and psychologically.” If a person believes in themselves, they are more likely to accomplish their
Throughout Friedrich Nietzsche’s novel, On the Genealogy of Morals and the movie Fight Club, there are many parallels seen regarding an individual’s life-affirmation and their morals. To get a better understanding of many of Nietzsche’s philosophies described in his novel, one can take a look at the character’s interactions and personalities during the movie Fight Club. In this paper, the ideas of life-affirmation, übermensch, slave morality, master morality, and how the characters of Fight Club hold these concepts in their personalities will be discussed.
- The more confidence and determination you have in life, the happier you will end up
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The concept of logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism or simply positivism, is a vital one in the realm of the social sciences, having a profusion of influence. Virtually beginning in the 1920s, logical positivism reached a peak around the time of the 1950s and 1960s. The notion revolves around the idea that scientific knowledge is the only form of valid and factual knowledge and focuses on the importance of one’s own phenomena experiences (Stiles, 2017). Although influential, there have been many analyses and critiques of the notion, with political scientist Thomas S. Kuhn acting as a prevalent critic. Kuhn, and a fair sum of other critics, are post-positivists which are those who believe that believe theory is revisable as not
There are times I have even caught myself in the act of “coaching” myself into a more positive mindset. Inner self statements such as, “I can do this” or “this is not the first time I’ve ever felt this way and I survived.” These inner pep talks have helped me overcome issues of my own simply by willing myself to believe I can. Much the same way as William James, I tell myself I will be able to do this as long as I take it one step at a time and stay positive. The moment I allow negativity into my thought process all I have gained would be in
Many famous thinkers, from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and many others, teach that what you believe and think will have a profound effect on your life. "You become what you think about" is a truth validated by decades of experience. Many scientists today believe that repeated thoughts produce electrochemical charges that create physical "circuitry" pathways in the brain. To keep thinking the same thoughts over and over wears a channel so that the same thoughts become habitual patterns. This is great if the thoughts are wholesome and life-giving, but can be harmful with destructive, negative thinking.
As I made it through the 24 hours of attempting, it became very clear to me that I needed to change some of my thoughts and habits in order to create a more positive mind to myself. I thought about how I could avoid from bringing negative thoughts in my mind.
As one ponders on how to live a good life, many ideas come to mind. Whether this may be wealth, family, or beauty, the early philosopher’s theories need to be taken into consideration. Those early philosophers include Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and The Epicureans. These four committed their lives towards bettering life, and are the basis of most philosophical theories. It is evident that these four need to be read, understood, and discussed to better understand one’s life. They always pondered on the thought of how to have a perfect life and society. When one makes their own theory, based upon these early philosophers, not only do they need to establish a strong belief system, it is required to practice this too. Plato had the most basic of theories, being that only virtue was needed in life to be happy and nothing else. For Aristotle, he used Plato’s foundation and added that external goods, such as wealth, respect, friends, and beauty were all necessary. Without one of these, Aristotle believes that one cannot live a happy life. For the Stoics, they settled on a balanced approached between virtue and external goods, saying that virtue is necessary, yet external goods are preferred too. The Epicureans largely argue the Stoics view, and present that pleasure (tranquility) is the goal of every life, but virtues and friends are required for this. Each theory has many critics, even with Aristotle being a critic of his own theory. None seems perfect, yet all fit today’s modern society. I found that I agree with the Stoics theory the most, and find that any external good is fine as long as virtue is the basis of that person’s life.
In the United States 20% of the adult population report that they are living a flourishing life (Keyes, 2002). However, a high percentage reports feeling as if they are ‘‘stuck’’ or ‘‘want more’’ and are yet not diagnosable with a mental disorder (Fredrickson, 2008). Because happiness has been found to be the source of many desirable life outcomes e.g. career success, marriage, and health, it is of importance to understand, how languishing individuals can reach this ideal state: How can well-being be enhanced and misery reduced (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005). Over the past decade, research in the field of positive psychology has emerged to provide evidence-based methods to increase an individual’s psychological well-being, through so called positive psychology interventions (PPI’s). PPI’s are treatment methods or intentional activities used to promote positive feelings or behaviour. PPI’s vary from writing gratitude letters, practicing optimistic thinking and replaying positive experiences. A meta-analysis of 51 independent PPI studies demonstrated significant results in the effectiveness of PPI’s increasing well-being (49 studies; r = .29) (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009).
Positive self talk and daily positive affirmations can change the brain's structure and ultimately influence the subconscious mind. Following steps can be taken to unleash your mind's power using the power of your thoughts:
When we are young children, we are introduced to the concept of "living happily ever after". This is a fairy-tale emotional state of absolute happiness, where nothing really happens, and nothing even seems to matter. It is a state of feeling good all the time. In fairy tales, this feeling is usually found in fulfilling marriages, royal castles, singing birds and laughing children. In real life, an even-keeled mood is more psychologically healthy than a mood in which you frequently achieve great heights of happiness. Furthermore, when you ask people what makes their lives worth living, they rarely mention their mood. They are more likely to talk about what they find meaningful, such as their work or relationships. Research suggests that if you focus too much on trying to feel good all the time, you’ll actually undermine your ability to ever feel good because no amount of feeling good will be satisfying to you. If feeling good all the time were the only requirement for happiness, then a person who uses cocaine every day would be extremely happy. In our endless struggle for more money, more love and more security, we have forgotten the most fundamental fact: happiness is not caused by possessions or social positions, and can in fact be experienced in any daily activity. We have made happiness a utopia: expensive, complicated, and unreachable.
In this world today, things are so much different than 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. Judgments have become so much harsher. Today you can read people 's ways. For example, if you walk by someone and they stare you down and scrunch up their face, they have something negative about you. However, if you walk past someone and they smile and wink or continue looking at you they are thinking something platitude about you. But, because the world has changed so much in the last few years, how do we deal with negative and positive comments?
Affirmations can help us start thinking differently if we repeat them over and over with emotion. Figure out which affirmations make you feel some thing as you say them out loud and stick to those.