What is the benefit of positive thinking and damage of negative thinking?

[James123]

Why should we think positive instead of negative? Which makes you close the god? Please share your perspective. 

Thanks.

Peace!!!

Edited July 1 by Inliytened1

[Fluran]

Self-fulfilling prophecy would answer that,

Negative thinking would bring criticism but can be useful to filter out.

[Ishanga]

Its Better to Have Clarity in Life than Positive/Negative Thinking or Feelings, with the later Your too susceptible to emotional ups and downs, its like walking around in a circle thinking Your getting somewhere.. Clarity gives You Ease, Ease is not about having an "Easy" Life, its about avoiding hurdles that have already been dealt with over time, many ppl are stressing out about situations that have been around for a very long time and have been dealt with in empowering ways, but ppl still stress out which puts one in a negative emotional pattern and they become less Empowered over all..

The common thinking is that overcoming Challenges and Problems builds up some sort of wisdom and toughness, but as we can see in our society, there is too much of this going on, at every corner ppl are facing too many challenges, where I live in Toronto, ppl have tough days at work then they have to get home thru the chaos of a transportation system that is not very good, and hiway/road system that is so busy there is always delays and traffic jams, so at every corner ppl are getting stressed out this is no good overall.

With Clarity, one can avoid stress and challenges, come to a point in Life where the basics of Life are taken care of with Ease, then they can pursue higher purposes in Life and live up to our natural Potential...

[James123]

4 hours ago, Ishanga said:

Its Better to Have Clarity in Life than Positive/Negative Thinking or Feelings, with the later Your too susceptible to emotional ups and downs, its like walking around in a circle thinking Your getting somewhere.. Clarity gives You Ease, Ease is not about having an "Easy" Life, its about avoiding hurdles that have already been dealt with over time, many ppl are stressing out about situations that have been around for a very long time and have been dealt with in empowering ways, but ppl still stress out which puts one in a negative emotional pattern and they become less Empowered over all..

The common thinking is that overcoming Challenges and Problems builds up some sort of wisdom and toughness, but as we can see in our society, there is too much of this going on, at every corner ppl are facing too many challenges, where I live in Toronto, ppl have tough days at work then they have to get home thru the chaos of a transportation system that is not very good, and hiway/road system that is so busy there is always delays and traffic jams, so at every corner ppl are getting stressed out this is no good overall.

With Clarity, one can avoid stress and challenges, come to a point in Life where the basics of Life are taken care of with Ease, then they can pursue higher purposes in Life and live up to our natural Potential...

How can one make or create the clarity? Surrendering, or empty mind? 

[Ishanga]

30 minutes ago, James123 said:

How can one make or create the clarity? Surrendering, or empty mind? 

Those are two ways for sure, dis identifying is also a way, dropping all Your conscious/unconscious beliefs, living in the NOW, Accepting all that is as it Is, learning how to Breath right, Sit right, Think right, Eat right, many ways to do it, getting Yourself to a place of natural Peace or Bliss, this gives You great Clarity, when Your looking outside of Yourself for Fulfilment, that makes You Blind I think...

[Breakingthewall]

Life is positive, death is negative. Negative does not mean bad, but tending towards death. where do you want to go? If your tendency is towards death, it is better to finish quickly, not spend 25 years depressed and with addictions. If your tendency is towards life, then total positivity, opennes

[Yimpa]

 

[Yimpa]

 

[theleelajoker]

15 hours ago, Ishanga said:

Its Better to Have Clarity in Life than Positive/Negative Thinking or Feelings, with the later Your too susceptible to emotional ups and downs, its like walking around in a circle thinking Your getting somewhere.. Clarity gives You Ease, Ease is not about having an "Easy" Life, its about avoiding hurdles that have already been dealt with over time, many ppl are stressing out about situations that have been around for a very long time and have been dealt with in empowering ways, but ppl still stress out which puts one in a negative emotional pattern and they become less Empowered over all..

The common thinking is that overcoming Challenges and Problems builds up some sort of wisdom and toughness, but as we can see in our society, there is too much of this going on, at every corner ppl are facing too many challenges, where I live in Toronto, ppl have tough days at work then they have to get home thru the chaos of a transportation system that is not very good, and hiway/road system that is so busy there is always delays and traffic jams, so at every corner ppl are getting stressed out this is no good overall.

With Clarity, one can avoid stress and challenges, come to a point in Life where the basics of Life are taken care of with Ease, then they can pursue higher purposes in Life and live up to our natural Potential...

Very well said.

Clarity allows you to go beyond the positive / negative game. It's all experience, the rest is a story we create with arbitrary meanings and judgments.

But as Ishanga said, many people are too often too deep into their own system and stressed out. This stress  severely damages their ability to just sit down and to listen. I was the same for a long time...

[Ishanga]

7 hours ago, theleelajoker said:

Very well said.

Clarity allows you to go beyond the positive / negative game. It's all experience, the rest is a story we create with arbitrary meanings and judgments.

But as Ishanga said, many people are too often too deep into their own system and stressed out. This stress  severely damages their ability to just sit down and to listen. I was the same for a long time...

Thanks!  A useful Sadhana or Spiritual Practice is that throughout the Day, no matter what You are doing, working or relaxing, observe Your Mind and Ego, how it is always Judging and Making Conclusions, I do this all the time, I watch it label this or that person walking by, cursing the person cutting me off in traffic, little things like this that happen a thousand times a day, after awhile a space is created btwn You and this Ego/Mind complex and that is Empowering, its like turning down the volume on music or sound you don't want to hear anymore, it gives You a sense of Freedom from the Monkey Mind...

[Carl-Richard]

If you come across a problem in your life where you currently see no optimal outcome, you will probably think a lot of negative thoughts, but you'll also become very creative in trying to find that optimal outcome. However, there eventually comes a point where the negative thinking becomes too much of a burden and hinders your ability to find an optimal outcome, and then you need to come to terms with what is, and that requires accepting the situation and moving forward.

Accepting the situation might involve reframing what is an optimal outcome and seeing the positive sides in a situation, i.e. positive thinking. It might also require a radical leap in how you fundamentally approach your own values, or even a leap in the very way you think, hopefully towards a place of more complexity and nuance (an evolution) and not a place of more simplicity and black-and-white thinking (a de-evolution).

[An young being]

Think positive when everything around you seems negative, think negative when everything seems positive !

[Keryo Koffa]

Turn positive and negative into an axis and then make a sword out of that

[Davino]

I used to have extremely positive thinking, just by default. I was wired like that.

I don't anymore

My thinking is aligned with Truth and Reality. Positive or Negative are like sweet and sour, both can be in the dish of thinking.

Mature Mind is equanimous and spacious, stable and unbroken under high pressure, diamond like. A mature Mind isn't afraid of becoming insane, losing control or having all kind of weird thoughts. It's an anchor ⚓ into Itself.

So right now, I use my Mind to penetrate and understand a figment of Reality and then I apply the proper tool, positive or negative thinking, for aligning myself to how things actually are and not how I think they are or how I want them to be.

There's many more things that could be said, feel free to interrogate me. 

[Basman]

Humans are naturally inclined to think negatively because it beneficial to survival. It helps assess potential problems.

Negative assumptions specifically can be problematic because it contracts the mind and makes you less likely to see opportunities and the good things you have going for you. Depression is basically just thinking of yourself in the worst light all the time. Negative thinking also just tends to make you feel worse.

I find that people who value acing life tend to be positive thinkers. It is necessary if you want to feel good about your life. So, why not?

[tuku747]

Damage ia ina

On 7/1/2024 at 3:06 PM, Davino said:

I used to have extremely positive thinking, just by default. I was wired like that.

I don't anymore

My thinking is aligned with Truth and Reality. Positive or Negative are like sweet and sour, both can be in the dish of thinking.

Mature Mind is equanimous and spacious, stable and unbroken under high pressure, diamond like. A mature Mind isn't afraid of becoming insane, losing control or having all kind of weird thoughts. It's an anchor ⚓ into Itself.

So right now, I use my Mind to penetrate and understand a figment of Reality and then I apply the proper tool, positive or negative thinking, for aligning myself to how things actually are and not how I think they are or how I want them to be.

There's many more things that could be said, feel free to interrogate me. 

"Things as they actually are" to me references The Good, as Plato called The One, from which all things have emenated, and to which all will return in a symmetrical and harmonious fashion.

[James123]

Nothing is under control.

[theleelajoker]

On 7/1/2024 at 4:49 PM, An young being said:

Think positive when everything around you seems negative, think negative when everything seems positive !

How does this work in practice?

1) Hot woman tells me "Let's have sex" and I think "no she probably has STDs"

2) Everybody fleeing the volcano eruption saying "it will kill us" and me saying "nahhh, I'll be fine"

[Yimpa]

 

Edited July 3 by Yimpa

[An young being]

14 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

How does this work in practice?

1) Hot woman tells me "Let's have sex" and I think "no she probably has STDs"

2) Everybody fleeing the volcano eruption saying "it will kill us" and me saying "nahhh, I'll be fine"

Lol, I don't think it works that way.

A better interpretation would be:

When everything seems to be happening positive in your life, no matter whether you think you work hard or being lazy, whether you think you are being a selfish and egoistic guy or a selfless one, it's time to be extremely careful as something big is going to happen next.

When all hope is lost, and nothing seems to work, it's time to be positive and hold on for some more time, as nothing is permanent.