Why is it so much easier to have a negative attitude than a positive one? What's inside you that just naturally pulls you to the negative side of things?
You read the books, you attend the seminars, you buy the tapes.....and things seem to go well for awhile. You feel better, your outlook is better, and you're hopeful. That is.....until something happens that sends you reeling all over again.
It doesn't even have to be a major, catastrophic event to send you back to the land of negative thinking. It can be something as simple as someone cutting you off in traffic or pushing ahead of you in the grocery checkout line. What gives those seemingly simple occurrences of every day life so much power to literally throw you into a tizzy all over again?
Negative attitudes come from negative thoughts that come from reactions to negative behavior....and around the cycle goes. And you must know that none of this negative stuff is coming from God. There is nothing negative about the way He thinks or acts.
This never ending cycle continues because the source is never addressed. You "try hard" to be positive, attempting to over-ride how you truly feel. It's work pretending to be positive when inside you know all too well that it won't take long and one of those annoying life issues is going to creep up and dump all over your positive attitude.
So how do you put a stop to all this nonsense? How do you get to a place where your positive attitude is what's natural for you and not the other way around?
I wish I could give you a magic formula that, when applied correctly, would erase your negative attitude in 3 days. Yup, can't you just see the infomercial on a product like that? For just $19.95 you can have all your dreams come true. What a bargain! People would be lining up for this one.
But alas....the real world isn't quite so simple. But the good news is that there are some things you can do to help you transition from the land of negativity to a much more positive place.
It is possible to control your thoughts, regardless of what you've been led to believe. As soon as a negative thought comes into your mind, purposefully make it a point to replace it with a positive one. At first, this may take some work, because chances are, you will probably have alot more negative thoughts in your head than positive ones. But eventually, that ratio will reverse itself.
This process will change how you think and that's the real key to changing how you act. Remember.....your body will follow right behind your thoughts. There is no way to separate the two, so you might as well "program in" what you want instead of randomly leaving it to chance.
Just know that God's version of right attitudes don't contain anything negative. And if you want God's best for your life, it starts with right thoughts.....His thoughts to be exact.