What is attitude? - Why it is of the utmost importance...
If you think everything is right in your life do you really think it? What
people mean is that it is as right as can be. Right is relative. It depends on
what you can get. You can say all is right in your life even if you are in a
wheelchair for that is something that makes your life difficult but not wrong.
It is all right under the circumstances. The thought then that all is right in
your life then is relative but it is also putting you in a niche or hiding
place. You find a way to get a sufficient sense of being reasonably okay so it
is like you are using the bad things around you to find that sort of safe space.
The worry is that the circumstances will always be bigger than you and you will
be destroyed when your scheme falls apart.
Attitude however is the best way to prepare.
Having the right attitude is the only way to empower ourselves.
We all have the seeds of the right attitude in us. They just need watering. Not
all of us get the chance to enjoy the water.
Attitude is what you believe and perhaps feel as well. It is a belief. Positive
attitudes are wonderful. Negative attitudes can be very damaging. A thought is
just a thought - it is not an attitude. It may be turned into an attitude
though. A negative attitude appears when one has too many negative thoughts.
Many negative thoughts are unnecessary. For example, what good does it do to
recall something someone said to you years ago? The negative thoughts program
you to develop a negative attitude.
A negative thought or feeling though unpleasant is good for you provided what it
seems to be saying makes sense. We must be careful that we know how to think.
That way our negative thoughts and feelings are indicators that something is not
quite right and spurs us to do something about it.
A negative thought may do harm to you but a negative attitude being more
prolonged and deep-seated will do a horrendous lot more harm. Self-defeating
beliefs about yourself are the most deadly negative attitudes of all. You can
have self-defeating beliefs about the world too. For example, I don't want to
get a job for people will be horrible to me. That is actually an indirect way of
having a self-defeating belief about yourself. What you are really saying is, "I
am too useless to get along with people and cope with problems."
Attitude affects how you feel about yourself and your life and the world. Some
people preach that how the world and others feel about you is more important.
But unless you have a nice attitude and let it shine, the world will not value
you very much.
Realise that your imagination is far more powerful than your will. That is why
placebo medicines seem to be so powerful. In fact, it is your imagining that
they help you that heals you - not the medicines! Remember that you can harm
yourself by thinking nothing is helping you.
If you have a wonderful doctor and the doctor says they will not help you or
cannot that will cause a reverse placebo effect. Imagine how powerful belief in
God is when you think or are sure he will not help or cannot help for it does
not fit his overall plan for the world!