Celebrating Love & Positive Thinking

Part 15 in a series by Karen A. Stevenson, President, Studio K Salon

Valentines Day is this month.  Time to gesture a fragment of kindness for someone you love. Maybe a gift certificate for a massage, a pedicure, or possibly a dozen roses?  There are endless niceties you can do for the people you adore in life.  Attempting to keep things kind, considerate, and positive are just a few of the things that are important, not only during the month of February, but throughout the rest of the year.

Here’s a suggestion.  Matter of fact, it will cost you nothing!  How about giving those around you the relief, the grace, the freedom, to observe what it is like to live with a positive YOU?

How does one keep on the positive side of life?  There are so many things that cause negativity.  Stress for instance, or pressure.  Ugly or unkind thought processes in the mind.  Entertaining evil or non-constructive situations over and over in your brain will cause you to program yourself.  Have you ever heard the saying that thoughts are creative? What about “you are as you think”?  There are books upon books on the market suggesting that the power of positive thinking sells more cars, gets you more money, and obtains your goals. This may or may not be true.  What is true is the more you program your mind with positive thoughts, positive things in life, the more positive things will come to you.  Choosing to run quickly from negativity of any kind will eventually allow you to be ahead of the race and have a cleaner thought life. Over time, you will gain a positive outlook.

I am not talking about denying realities in a bad situation.  Nor am I suggesting you hide your head under the blanket.  Merely suggesting that you analyze your thoughts, and think if you concentrate on positive or negative things.  Do you dare yourself to enter into realms that bring you darkness, cause your stomach to be upset, or feel uneasy? Is it possible that you have no business in that situation in the first place?  Certainly growing forward into life, and leaving trash and garbage behind will create a more positive environment for you and the people around you. 

Some people tend to ignore warning signals that their body gives them about a situation, a place, or a conversation.  They try to squelch their internal alarm system, be it ever so faint, or ever so loud, that it is trying to red flag a reality check and consider if it is a healthy situation or not.  Bottom line, if the situation brings negative feelings, or aura, it may be a ‘heads up’ that it is not a good situation.  

People that dwell on the bad side of life, have a very hard time ‘spreading the joy’ to others.  The main reason, they could have a lack of joy in their internal lives, and simply cannot offer quality relationships or happiness to the people in their everyday lives.  “Cleaning out your closet”, can mean many things.  Vacuuming out the settled dirt of thought process, dusting off the shelves of grudges, anger, and jealousy, organizing patterns of thinking or entertainment your thinking patterns in a non-positive manner.   Discipline yourself to keep the closet neat, tidy, and without a new garbage collection.