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Be happy
The document provides solutions for overcoming negative thoughts and promoting happiness. It discusses common negative thought patterns like thinking happiness depends on obtaining something, comparing oneself to others, feeling jealous of others' success, blaming external factors for problems, making excuses to delay goals, and feeling like a failure. The solutions encourage focusing on present blessings, accepting life's ups and downs, learning from mistakes, supporting others, and maintaining a positive outlook.
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- 1. How to OvercomeNegative Thoughts & Be Happy
- 2. “ Theway to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.” - Dalai Lama
- 3. Life could beso much better for many people, if they would just spot their negative thinking habits and replace them with positive ones.
- 4. Let’s take alook at common ways that negative thinking emerges — get good at spotting these patterns, and practice replacing them with positive thinking patterns.
- 5. Problem: I will be happy once I have _____ (or once I earn X).
- 6. Solution: Learnto be happy with what you have, where you are, and who you are, right at this moment. Happiness doesn’t have to be some state that we want to get to eventually — it can be found right now. Learn to count your blessings, and see the positive in your situation.
- 7. Problem: I wishI were as ____ as (a celebrity, friend, co-worker).
- 8. Solution: Stopcomparing yourself to others, and look instead at yourself — what are your strengths, your accomplishments, your successes, however small? What do you love about yourself? Learn to love who you are, right now, not who you want to become.
- 9. Problem: Seeing othersbecoming successful makes me jealous and resentful.
- 10. Solution: Learnto admire the success of others, and learn from it, and be happy for them, by relating with them and understanding what it must be like to be them. And then turn away from them, and look at yourself — you can be successful too, in whatever you choose to do.
- 11. Problem: Dammit !Why do these bad things always happen to me?
- 12. Solution: Seebad things as a part of the ebb and flow of life. Suffering is a part of the human condition — but it passes. All pain goes away, eventually. Solution: See bad things as a part of the ebb and flow of life. Suffering is a part of the human condition — but it passes. All pain goes away, eventually. Meanwhile, don’t let it hold you back.
- 13. I am amiserable failure — I can’t seem to do anything right.
- 14. Solution: Seeyour successes and ignore your failures. Look back on your life, in the last month, or year, or 5 years. And try to remember your successes.
- 15. Problem: You can’tdo anything right! Why can’t you be like ____ ?
- 16. Solution: Takethe mistakes or bad behavior of others as an opportunity to teach. Show them how to do something. Second, praise them for their positive behavior, and encourage their success. Last, and most important, love them for who they are, and celebrate their differences.
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- 18. Solution: Don’tlet the insults or negative comments of others slide off you. Don’t let their problem become yours. In fact, try to understand their problem more — why would someone say something like that? What problems are they going through?
- 19. I don’t thinkI can do this —may be some other time.
- 20. Solution: Turnyour thinking around: you can do this! Find ways to make yourself a success at your goal. If you fail, learn from your mistakes, and try again. Instead of putting a goal off for later, start now .
- 21. Do you havethe feeling that everybody is against you? Be Happy
- 22. And walk allover you?
- 23. Are your colleaguesgrumpy again?
- 24. Do you sometimeshave the creepy feeling as if you don‘t fit in?
- 25. Do you feelsomehow watched?
- 26. Is your bossalways on your case?
- 27. Do you feellittle and insignificant?
- 28. Are there problemson the home front?
- 29. Are you tiredand listless?
- 30. Do you onlywant to sleep?
- 31. Or do youwant to eat all day?
- 32. Is the waterup to your neck?
- 33. Do you clingto the last straw?
- 34. Do you nostalgicallylook back to the good old times?
- 35. Do you feelpestered?
- 36. Or lonely andforsaken?
- 37. Sometimes it reallyfeels like howling!
- 38. O.k. Now! Cheer up!
- 39. Everybody needs ashoulder sometimes!
- 40. Sit back, takea deep breath – and relax!
- 41. A helping handquite often is very near!
- 42. Remember the affectionof those who love you!
- 43. If everything fails,eat a cookie – but only one, not the entire box, otherwise you‘ll feel even worse afterwards!
- 44. Stay cool evenif they laugh at you!
- 45. But most importantly: Laugh!
- 46. Do your bestat whatever you set out to do.
- 47. Do at leastone thing every day that scares you.
- 48. Get plenty ofrest.
- 49. Always be opento love.
- 50. Be kind toeveryone, regardless of how similar or different we may be.
- 51. Be patient, especiallywhen you don’t want to be.
- 52. Reach for yourdreams, no matter how far off they may seem.
- 53. Learn when totalk, and when to just listen.
- 54. Learn to acceptyour looks and your bodies.
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- 56. Take the timeto rediscover your child inside.
- 57. Accept that thereare going to be things you are not going to like, but you are just going to have to deal with them.
- 58. … . andnever, ever let anyone get you down!
- 59. Well, don‘t youfeel better already !
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- 61. Presentation ByAnu Chaudhary You can really move mountains if you start with positive thinking.
Editor's Notes
- #6 If you think you can’t be happy until you reach a certain point, or until you reach a certain income, or have a certain type of house or car or computer setup, you’ll never be happy.
- #8 We’ll never be as pretty, as talented, as rich, as sculpted, as cool, as everyone else. There will always be someone better, if you look hard enough. Therefore, if we compare ourselves to others like this, we will always pale, and will always fail, and will always feel bad about ourselves.