The years in our lives keep passing, and with every New Year, we move towards a new phase of life that is beginning to weather away spiritual and emotional disturbances of the past so as to emerge much stronger with a focused resolve to take charge of the life. We need to take charge and get released of doubt and fear in order to surge ahead in creating what matters to us in being very important to achieve in life. We need to throw away the old thoughts pertaining to inertia and get involved with positive goals. It is very important to understand that fear is the real culprit that shifts us into thinking at most only of mediocre objectives and mental states; although inside our hearts, we may be having the burning desire to make changes in our life to improve upon our situations. Hence it is high time that we put all those negative thoughts on the back burner and start to believe in something which is much stronger and which adds immense positive value in our life.
It is hence essential to cultivate such optimism in making a strong line of defence to counter the attacks of negative conditioning that prevails all around the world. True that optimism can successfully counter such uninvited traits in us by removing the negative programming of our minds that is a common feature in most of us. If one can summon the requisite faith in oneself by focusing on what is desired, it is possible to ward away the pessimistic patterns and doubts that keep threatening to take control over us. It is not difficult to cultivate optimism, and a typical example of how to do it is that of the gardener. The gardener knows what is required to be put in the soil so that beautiful vibrant, and healthy flowers are produced. Much needed attention and caution are required to be taken so that flowers get adequate water, minerals and sunlight. Thus it is the same with the human mind; we need to be sure that we are putting the right inputs into our subconscious mind, which ultimately form our value systems and bring about optimism in us. We need to monitor what goes into our minds in much the same way as the gardener ensures as to what goes into enabling the flowers to bloom. Hence there is nothing to stop us from having an optimistic attitude so that we positively and bravely look forward to all the good things in life.
To cultivate optimism in our life, we need to be consistent so that our mind responds in a constant way towards positive thoughts. We should not flood our minds with doubts, fears, lack confidence, anger and other negative thoughts; other wise the garden in our minds will produce only likewise. Over time, the mind simply reproduces what it has been fed with. The good news is that we can easily change the programming in our minds as and when we feel like it by making a conscious decision to remove the negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. The idea is to control the mind in a way so that as and when there is doubt, a positive thought must be created, and over time the mind will become attuned and accustomed to such a pattern in eliciting positive thoughts. The mind needs to be trained to be receptive in expecting positive results in all situations. Sure one will be amazed at being amply rewarded due to such efforts.