How can I develop more positive thinking and feel happier each day?
CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY NOW– MODIFY YOUR DAILY STREAM OF THOUGHTS Have you made a conscious choice that you want to spend as much of your time feeling happy as possible? How many minutes of the day did you feel happy yesterday? Today? How can you spend as many minutes of your life feeling happy as possible? One way you can feel happier is to develop a more positive world view. Making happiness your ultimate concern and developing a positive world view can help you feel better on a moment-to-moment basis. TURNING THE TIDE OF THOUSANDS OF THOUGHTS There are 3,600 seconds in an hour and 57,600 seconds in a normal 16-hour waking day. If we have one thought per second (much less than the brain’s capacity), then we have about 60,000 thoughts in one day. What percentage of your 60,000 thoughts lead to positive emotions and what percentage to negative ones? One day I decided to try an experiment–to let my inner observer watch my thousands of thoughts for a day. I wanted to see if I could let my H
