Simple yet Powerful Positive Thinking Exercises (pt. 1)

One of the most important positive thinking exercises that you can use is daily affirmations. However, these affirmations aren’t the only thing you should use to help improve your way of thinking. By nature, most people tend to think in the negative, since that is what life seems to throw at us most of the time. Obstacles and problems abound, and people will often dwell on those, rather than thinking about them in a positive way. This is going to be the first in a two-part series on positive thinking exercises that will help improve your outlook on your life in general.

Three Easy to Implement Positive Thinking Exercises

Allowing for positive time is a good way to get started with your positive thinking exercises. This means that you should set some time aside to enjoy the positive things that have happened in your day. You may want to share this time with your family, so that you can all discuss what good things you noticed about your day. Each member of your family should share at least one good experience each day, whether it was a major event or something as small as someone complimenting you. Using this in your arsenal of positive thinking exercises can help establish a pattern that will become a part of your family’s day forever.

Another of the great positive thinking exercises is to allow yourself some joy. Set aside a small amount of time each day to do something that you really enjoy doing. It doesn’t matter what that is, whether it’s reading, watching TV, or jogging to the lake and back. The important thing is that it is something that you enjoy doing. Doing something you have fun doing can be a great way to reward yourself. This is something that you deserve, because you are such a positive person. It is important to instill this with the rest of your positive thinking exercises in order to give yourself that small space of time during the day that you really look forward to doing something.

The last of today’s positive thinking exercises is to look on the bright side of things. It is easy to dwell on the fact that someone cut you off on the expressway today. That person could have caused a lot of grief if he had hit your car with his, causing a huge accident. Or he may have lost control of his car and caused you to be late for work. These are all things that will bring your positive level down. Rather than that, think about the fact that when he cut in front of you, at least he didn’t hit your car. You can also take pride in the fact that your own skillful driving helped prevent a potential accident. Simple positive thinking exercises such as this will help brighten your day immensely, rather than turn it sour.

The Power of Positive Thinking Exercises

These are three important positive thinking exercises that you can start working on immediately. In the next article, you will read about more that can be used just as easily, yet are just as powerful. These can be used in conjunction with daily affirmations to start achieving your goals in life, instead of just getting by. Using simple methods such as positive time, allowing yourself some joy, and looking on the bright side will shift your mindset from the negative into the positive and beyond. Positive thinking exercises such as these are the key to changing your life to a powerful positive force in the universe.