Negativity provides an unusually
powerful and narrow focus. Being negative is simple; all you
have to do is say no. You don’t have to work hard to say no.
You don’t even have to think about it. Just say no, and that’s
the end of it.
Negation is a powerful tool for
destroying a life. Negation is absolute; it’s a period in the
sentence of life. Nothing happens after negation. Discussion
is over. Thinking is over. Affirmative action is over.
Nothing else can be said or done.
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You end up sitting in Nowhere Land
in the small contracting universe of negativity. The universe
of possibility is unimaginably large and is continually
expanding. Those marching to the beat of possibility march to
the sound of their dreams. Those listening to the beat of
negation remain where they are as their life collapses into the
black hole of negativity.
I spent my medical career fighting
blindness. I operated on thousands of eyes and restored vision
to thousands of people. It’s highly gratifying to restore sight
to a blind person. When you restore sight to a child, you give
a gift that lasts a lifetime. When you restore vision to an
elderly person, you put a smile on their face and give them back
their life.
Many people suffer from a type of
blindness that affects their inner vision in which negativity
blinds their mind. Inner blindness is more limiting than outer
blindness. Surgical instruments cure outer blindness. Only a
mind transplant cures inner blindness; renewing of the mind is
the only known cure.
Inner blindness makes it
impossible to see how you can turn your life around and live
your dreams. Inner blindness hands you a life of limitations
and makes it impossible to live your dreams. You never move in
the direction of your dreams, because you can’t move in the
direction of a goal you can’t see.
Inner blindness is an enormous
handicap. Without a vision for the future, you can’t see
opportunities when they are in front of your face. You are left
with the appalling emptiness that accompanies negativity.
In my medical practice, I have
seen blindness close in on many individuals. Their field of
vision constricts and their central vision fades into a weak
glimmer. Year by year, blindness steals one dream after
another. Ocular disease constricts the field of their dreams
until nothing is left. I have seen it many times in the faces
of my patients. They feel like there is no hope and their life
is over. They shift gears into dependence as the focus of
their life narrows. This isn’t a pessimistic assessment of
life; it’s blindness as it happens in the third world.
The same
things happen when you have inner blindness. The scope of your
activity becomes limited as the field of your dreams
constricts. Each time you speak the word no, your life gets
smaller, and your opportunities recede further into the
distance. If you continue to say no to opportunity, you
eventually apply for permanent residence in Nowhere Land.
NEGATIVITY IS THE BLACK
HOLE OF THE MIND
One of the remarkable discoveries
of the twentieth century was the existence of black holes. The
density of matter in a black hole is massive beyond
description. Black holes possess such an immense gravitational
field not even light can escape its grasp. It literally pulls
all matter and light into its center. If you went near a black
hole, you would disappear into oblivion without a trace.
Negativity is the black hole of
the mind. If you spend your time thinking negative thoughts,
your life slowly disappears into a black hole. Negative
thinking is unimaginably powerful. The only safe way to escape
the black hole of negativity is to have zero tolerance to
negative thinking.
You are the
only one who can create a black hole that destroys your life.
If your life is swallowed up in the black hole of negativity,
you will have done it to yourself, and you only have yourself to
blame.
POSITIVE THINKING CREATES
A UNIVERSE OF EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES
Positive thinking is the opposite
of a black hole. It’s the big bang that creates an infinitely
expanding universe of possibilities. Limitation and negation
aren’t found in this universe. The universe of possibilities
expands forever because what you think about expands. In this
universe, positive, empowering, resourceful, and unlimited
thoughts expand into your life, and there is no limit to how
excellent life can become.
NEGATIVITY IS THE MOST POWERFUL THOUGHT MAGNET IN THE UNIVERSE
Negativity is the most powerful thought magnet in the universe. Think
one negative thought, and automatically a multitude of negative thoughts
flash into your mind to reinforce the negation that initiated the whole
process. One negative thought amplifies itself hundreds of times.
In the practice of medicine, one of the most formidable challenges is
detecting and treating infectious disease before it gets out of
control. When bacteria invade tissue, at first you don’t know they are
there; they silently proliferate in the tissues. In this growth phase,
the bacteria prepare for a massive invasion; the bacteria silently
multiply in a pseudo quiescent state. Each bacterial division results
in two bacteria. When those two divide, you have four. A few organisms
proliferate into millions in twenty-four hours. If you treat an
infection when you have hundreds or thousands of bacteria, instead of
millions, you have a better chance of preventing or curing serious
infection.
When bacteria gain access to the interior of the eye, there is a grace
period of hours to several days before an infection is clinically
apparent and the patient becomes symptomatic. If the infection is
treated early, the eye is often saved. If the infection is neglected,
the eye is lost. Early treatment is the only way to prevent the night
of blindness from extinguishing vision in the eye.
The mind is equally susceptible to infection from negative thinking.
When a negative thought enters your mind, there is an apparent dormant
phase in which the negative thought silently multiplies in preparation
for a massive assault. If you kill that thought before it proliferates,
you maintain a positive mind and continue to move in the direction of
your dreams. If you permit that thought to take up residence and
multiply, the exponential growth of negative thoughts begins. Each
negative thought multiplies until a cascade of negativity rushes through
your mind. In a matter of minutes to hours, negative thoughts overwhelm
your mind.
That’s why you must have zero tolerance to negative thinking. The
battle against negative thoughts is easily won if you deal with them
when there are only one or two of them. If you tolerate their presence
for even a few minutes, suddenly an army of negative thoughts is on the
march. A minor skirmish is now a major battle, and your life is on hold
while you struggle to win this unnecessary battle. You are fighting a
battle that should never have been fought.
You must extinguish negativity when it appears. Sniff it out when it’s
small, snuff it out when it’s weak and vulnerable. There is no simpler
or more effective way to deal with negative thoughts. Don’t tolerate
them, and they will never cause problems.
Negative thoughts have a life of their own. Unrestricted negative
thinking proliferates and overwhelms your mind. This negative infection
destroys inner vision. It results in inner blindness and makes it
impossible to see opportunity even when it’s right in front of your
eyes.
Negativity is like inserting a destructive computer virus into your
mind. The negative virus overwhelms and destroys the positive
programming and positive inputs you worked so hard to install. If you
insert one negative thought into your mind at a strategic moment of the
morning, you can spoil your entire day.
A negative thought is a gift that keeps on giving in spite of your
desire for it to go away. Treat negative thoughts as you would treat
radioactive or toxic waste. Stay away from them because they
relentlessly sabotage your life.
Become proactive and monitor your thoughts. Extinguish negativity as
soon as you discover it. The fire of negative thought is easily
extinguished when the fire is small, but if it gets out of control, it
will consume your dreams.
NEGATIVITY
CAN OVERTAKE YOU ANYWHERE ON THE PATH TO YOUR DREAMS
You are never safe from
negation. Unchecked negativity can rapidly flush the achievements of a
lifetime down the drain. Negativity is an ever present and unwanted
companion that continually invites you to abandon your dreams.
Everyone moving in the direction of their dreams will suffer defeats and
sometimes feel their dreams are impossible. Negativity will attempt to
derail them on the path of achievement, and the temptation to quit will
be strong. Everyone wants life to be easy. They want either no
opposition at all or opposition to politely step out of the way as they
move toward their goals. This is unrealistic. People who achieve their
dreams aren’t strolling through life; they are climbing the mountain of
difficulty, and hard work and perseverance are the only way to reach the
top.
If you ever reach your dreams, it will be because you stopped listening
to the voice of fear and negation. You stopped looking at your
limitations and stopped constructing barriers that exist only in your
mind.
When you decide to sail around the world on a sailboat, you encounter an
ocean of opposition. A crowd of naysayers and critics freely offer
unsolicited opinions and advice concerning your proposed
circumnavigation of the globe. Friends are sure you are having a
midlife crisis. When you write the check to pay for your yacht, they
inform you that you have made a down payment on an expensive funeral at
sea. They tell you all of that money could have been spent on a nice
house, 100 channels of cable television, and the help of a good
therapist to get you over this foolish desire to sail around the world.
The easiest thing to find on planet earth is someone to tell you why
your dreams are too expensive, too dangerous, and a waste of time. With
cheerleaders like that, it’s amazing anyone pursues their dreams.
It’s not just family and friends who question your judgment. During
moments of adversity, you wonder whether you are heading down a one way
street in the wrong direction. The voice of fear starts a powerful
negative chorus that repeats itself thousands of time, and if you start
listening to its message, your dreams will evaporate.
What would happen if you fall off the boat at night at sea? What
happens if a whale rams your boat? What happens if you hit a floating
log, or if a ship runs you down at night? What happens if a hurricane
strikes? What happens if you meet pirates or drug runners? What if
your boat is struck by lightening? What if your boat runs up on a reef
and is destroyed on a remote deserted island? What if you get sick when
you are at sea? What if you have appendicitis when you are one thousand
miles from land? What if you hit your head or break a leg? What if
your boat turns upside down? What if there is a fire or explosion on
board? What if you collide at night with a floating container that has
fallen off a ship? What if you become seasick? Who will stay awake at
night and stand watch while you sail offshore? What if your boat sinks
and you lose all of the money you invested in the yacht? What if you
loose your medical skills while you sail around the world? How will you
ever be able to return to the practice of medicine?
I experienced all of these negative thoughts many times before I
purchased my yacht. Those thoughts could have stopped my voyage before
it got started. My dreams would have been stillborn if I listened to
the voice of fear.
If I listed all of the reasons why I shouldn’t sail around the world in
a small sailboat, I could write a hundred page document full of
disaster, difficulty, and despair. I know dozens of reasons why my
dreams are too expensive and involve too much risk. If I listen to the
voice of fear and negativity, I will sit at the dock and watch everyone
else sail on the ocean of their dreams.
Once I hoisted my sails in Fort Lauderdale and started my voyage, I had
dozens of opportunities for negativity to sink the ship of my dreams.
On my first night at sea, I experienced the most powerful thunderstorm I
encountered on the entire trip around the world. Surely, that must have
been a sign sailing around the world is a bad idea. It was a message to
stop the voyage in the Bahamas, anchor the boat in Chicken Town, and
check in to Hotel California where I could never leave, but at least I
would be safe.
When I reached the Panama Canal, the voice of fear again tried to cancel
my dream of sailing around the world. There is no need to transit the
Panama Canal and sail in the Pacific. Just stay in the Caribbean and
have a wonderful cruise. The Pacific Ocean is a vast body of water with
reefs, cyclones, and killer whales that could destroy my yacht. The
voice of fear told me to stay in the Caribbean forever.
After I arrived in the Pacific, the voice of fear started a new verse
with the same fearful chorus. It’s three thousand miles from the
Galapagos Islands to French Polynesia. You are at sea day and night for
three weeks. You don’t see any other humans for twenty-one days, and
there’s no one to rescue you if you get into trouble. Don’t go. Stay
in Nowhere Land where you’ll be safe.
After I arrived in French Polynesia, the voice of fear said to skip
sailing to the Tuamotu Archipelago. You will hit a reef as you sail
through the atolls. The passes through the reefs into the lagoons are
too small, and once inside you will be trapped. A storm could easily
destroy your yacht when it’s inside a potentially treacherous lagoon.
Sailing in the Tuamotus involves high risk. Skip them and sail directly
to Tahiti.
After I sailed across the Pacific Ocean, it was necessary to sail twelve
hundred miles south from Fiji to New Zealand. It’s a big trip into
higher latitudes and the voice of fear again rippled through the
cruising fleet. The talk was of storms with special emphasis on the
recent Queen’s Birthday storm in which lives and yachts were lost.
Sailing in the higher southern latitudes presented new and unfamiliar
risks. The voice of fear filled everyone with a sense of foreboding.
Sailing to and from New Zealand is scary. Some mariners left their
yachts in storage in Fiji to avoid the sail south. Other sailors loaded
their yachts on freighters and shipped them home.
Several weeks after I arrived in New Zealand, I rolled the car I was
driving. I broke both legs, fractured five ribs, punctured one lung and
had internal bleeding. I was transfused seven units of blood, had three
surgeries, and spent two months in the hospital. Surely, this disaster
proved sailing around the world was a bad idea. The sensible thing
would be to sell the yacht, buy a plane ticket to Nowhere Land, and
start watching cable television where I would be safe and secure for the
rest of my life.
Negativity can overtake you anywhere on the path to your dreams. I
could have stopped my trip around the world a dozen times before I
reached New Zealand. Surrendering dreams is easy. You can do it
anywhere or anytime. Most people will tell you that you are doing the
right thing when you sell your dream machine and join the ranks of the
Life Long Disoriented.
Negativity is a stalker that never goes away; it’s your unfailing and
unwanted companion eternally inviting you to abandon your dreams.
Negativity is a dream
stealer. Don't listen to the voice of negativity. It will ruin your
life.
You must have zero tolerance
to negative thinking if you want your dreams to come true.
NEGATIVITY
CREATES INERTIA IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE
Negative thoughts
create personal inertia; you become stuck where you are, unable to move
in a positive direction.
The paralysis of negative thinking makes constructive action extremely
difficult. Negative thinking creates the fear of making a mistake. The
possible negative consequences of failure keep you where you are. After
all, things could get worse.
On the other hand, if you do nothing, failure is virtually guaranteed.
Although it may seem less painful to be stationary rather than possibly
moving in the wrong direction, inertia creates a feeling of
self-loathing, and this leads to more negativity and additional
inertia. The way out of inertia is action; start moving in a positive
direction until the fog lifts and the way becomes clear.
Inertia puts your life on hold as you wait for a call that never comes.
It puts you in a holding pattern, and the instructions of when and where
to land never arrive. Negativity and inertia lead to three common
mistakes:
Waiting
Waiting too long.
Waiting for perfect conditions.
INERTIA - WAITING
Paralysis of analysis prevents people from acting. They perpetually
reexamine their lives trying to decide what they should do and where
they should go. The inertia of indecision holds them in place more
securely than feet planted in concrete.
When you are captured by inertia, you wait. Although you may not know
what you are waiting for, delay and waiting are still the order of the
day. Waiting for things to get better or for good things to
spontaneously happen causes you to wait for a lifetime. You can wait
for thousands of things to happen: the reading of the will, the boss to
retire, a positive mental attitude, the depression to lift, to be
appreciated, to be loved, for your ship to come in, or for your ship to
leave.
Waiting is a waste of your most precious asset, time. Every day is a
great day to work on your dreams. Even if the only thing you do is take
baby steps, you can still do something to work on your dreams. Although
the amount of progress you make may be infinitesimally small, any
movement in the right direction is better than no movement at all. You
need to stop waiting and start doing.
INERTIA - WAITING TOO LONG
Waiting too long is another common error that leads to lifelong
inertia. Some people wait to have a fantastic retirement. Their life
may not be much right now, but when they retire, they will have a
terrific life. They push the good life into the future until the day
they retire. Although it seems to make sense, it turns out to be a
self-deception, and most people don’t figure this out until retirement
comes.
When they retire, they discover they don’t enjoy doing many of the
things they put off until they retired. Windsurfing is an activity
that’s best done when you are full of the enthusiasm of youth. When you
are sixty-five years old, windsurfing seems like too much work. You’re
afraid you might hurt yourself, and the aches and pains of a sixty-five
year old body steal the wind out of your windsurfing sails. You can
still be a great windsurfer when you’re retired, but you probably won’t
want to work that hard at having fun.
Many activities are more fun when you’re young and healthy. Arthritis
and aspirin aren’t part of your daily routine. The younger you are when
you perform physically demanding activities, the higher the probability
you will enjoy them and actually make them happen.
INERTIA - WAITING FOR PERFECT CONDITIONS
Waiting for conditions to be perfect is another plausible self-deception
that keeps your life on hold. It makes sense to wait until conditions
are right so the probability of success is more in your favor. If you
lived for a thousand years, then perhaps you could afford to wait a
hundred years for conditions to become perfect before you proceed in the
direction of your dreams. Unfortunately, life is like a flicker that is
quickly gone.
Opportunity doesn’t linger. You must be poised and constantly ready for
action. The window of opportunity is small and you must be ready to
take advantage of it when it passes by. If you wait for the perfect
opportunity and perfect conditions, your dreams will never happen.
Today is the only
day, and now is the only time you can work on your dreams. You must
seize the day and work on your dreams today. You must seize the time,
and use whatever time is available. Start moving in the direction of
your dreams and live as if you can make your dreams come true. When you
do that every day, the negative power of inertia no longer holds you
captive.
NEGATIVITY
CREATES A MENTALITY OF LIMITATIONS
Life is hard enough
without creating artificial barriers that exist only in your mind. You
should regard life as a search and destroy mission in which your main
target is the limitations you find in your mind.
Everyone experiences physical limitations, and the longer you live, the
larger your physical challenges become. But, you learn how to work your
way around your restrictions using the power of your mind.
Quadriplegics can’t bounce a basketball. Nevertheless, quadriplegic
individuals can still achieve excellence and even greatness in their
lives. Although they can’t achieve excellence in basketball, they still
can achieve excellence in one or more other areas. And that’s really
what life is all about; you continually chip away at the limitations
found in your mind so that you can have an excellent life.
There is always room at the top for people with vision, desire, and
perseverance. The envelope of possibility rarely hinders people at the
top. Individuals at the top spend their lives defining what’s possible
rather than listening to the limitations that pop into their mind.
People at the bottom continually run into barriers they create in their
own mind, which is why they remain at the bottom. People at the bottom
look around, and all they see are barriers. People at the top look
around, and all they see are possibilities.
In an hour of concentrated effort, a fully developed negative mind can
come up with enough limitations to last a lifetime. You must stop
listening to the negative internal monologue that sells a suitcase full
of limitations. Your only true limit happens when you quit trying.
When you throw in the towel and surrender, you are saying this is as far
as you can go, and it’s pointless to persist.
I have seen two physically challenged people who can write the script of
limitations for my life. Both of these people are mountain climbers;
one is paraplegic, and the other has no feet.
One individual was paraplegic as a result of a climbing accident. After
the accident, he decided paraplegia wouldn’t prevent him from climbing
El Capitan at Yosemite National Park in California. He would overcome
the accident and conquer the mountain using only his arms since his legs
were useless for climbing. He trained with one of his friends for the
climb. The friend laid out a route up the side of the mountain, and his
job was to pull himself up using only his arms.
Over several days of climbing, he did thousands of pull-ups as he
ascended the vertical face of El Capitan. Each night, he slept in a
harness attached to the side of the mountain. Calling this climb
arduous, is an understatement. Nevertheless, by force of will and with
the help of his friend, he pulled himself thousands of feet up the sheer
vertical face of the mountain.
The second individual lost both of his feet in a climbing accident. He
didn’t want to give up climbing, and the only way to continue was to
create new prosthetic feet to substitute for the missing ones. He
created light, durable carbon fiber prostheses that allowed him to climb
like Spiderman. He even made the artificial feet telescopic so he could
make the reach of his legs greater by extending the length of the
prosthesis before he started to climb. When you watched him walk, you
would never guess he was walking on artificial feet, and when you
watched him climb, you were amazed as he ascended vertical walls of rock
and mastered overhanging rock faces.
The envelope of possibility is unimaginably large, and it will continue
to expand for as long as the human spirit is committed to making dreams
come true.
Choose worthwhile goals, and never quit. You will probably never
encounter any absolute limitations anywhere except in your own mind.
And remember, limitations never preclude excellence; no matter what type
of problem or handicap you have, you can still achieve excellence in at
least one area of your life. Excellence is your birthright as long as
you don’t give in to the voice of negativity and fear.
NEGATIVITY HAS THE WRONG FOCUS
Negativity focuses on
what’s wrong rather than what’s right. It focuses on limitations rather
than possibilities. Your focus determines your destination. When your
mental focus is positive, you move in a positive direction, and when
it’s negative, you move in a negative direction.
The focus of your mind is critical. Focus selects the programs running
in your mind. When you are negative and focused on everything wrong,
your mind runs programs that confirm and reinforce those beliefs. When
your focus is positive, your mind runs programs that confirm and
reinforce your positive thoughts.
Some people believe it’s impossible run their own mind and control their
thoughts. If that’s true, then answer this question. If you don’t run
your mind, who does? If you don’t control your thoughts, who will?
The Life Long Disoriented have abdicated the control of their thoughts
and the running of their mind to other people. Their boss, parents,
children, and culture control their thoughts and run their mind. What a
sad state of affairs! You don’t have nine lives, and if you don’t get
it right this time, you miss out forever. If you let someone else run
your mind, you have literally missed the opportunity of a lifetime. God
gave you a mind and He expects you to run your mind by yourself, rather
than have other people do it for you. That’s why He gave you a free
will, and that’s his plan for every human being. Run your mind, give it
your best shot, and see what you can do with this magnificent
opportunity for an adventure that starts now and lasts forever.
Running your mind and filling it with positive things is one of the
biggest challenges you face. So how do you run your mind? Is it hard to
do? Can anyone do it, or do you have to be a genius to make it happen?
The truth is, you already know how to run your mind, and running it is
as simple and as hard as controlling your mental focus. The focus of
your mind determines which programs run there. A persistently positive
focus creates a consistently positive mind, because it turns on a
positive operating system and runs positive programs. A persistently
negative focus causes mental havoc because it turns on a negative
operating system and runs negative programs.
Your mental focus selects the program that will run in your mind for the
next few minutes. Your mind can hopscotch around quickly from program
to program. At times, it takes considerable effort to maintain the
focus necessary to run good programs in your mind.
There are dozens of powerful techniques you can use to focus your mind
on the positive rather than the negative. Read books on positive
thinking. Write books on positive thinking. Listen to cassettes on
motivation. Recite positive self-talk. Enroll in seminars. Talk to a
positive friend. Watch positive videos. Pray. Read scripture. No
matter what technique you select, if the focus is positive, it will
create the desired effect.
Your brain examines the focus of your thoughts and then runs a program
consistent with that focus. All the programs on positive thinking and
motivation accomplish one task. They push your mental focus in a
positive direction. They focus your mind on positive thoughts so it
runs positive and empowering programs.
When you understand
that focus selects the inputs and programs running on your brain, it is
clear why negativity is so destructive. A negative focus means your
mind is running negative and destructive programs.
NEGATIVITY IS EASIER THAN BEING
POSITIVE
Being negative is easy. All you need to do is say no, and that’s the
end of it. You don’t have to take any further action. No more study is
necessary, no plans need to be made, and no alliances need to be formed.
When you say no, you don’t even have to move off your chair. You only
move your lips and utter a one-syllable word. No. It is a dead end
street with no place to turn around. It is the ultimate copout. If you
become good at saying no, you can avoid committing yourself to anything
in life.
When you are positive, the situation is radically different. The moment
you say yes is just the beginning. You cross the starting line, and now
all the challenges lie ahead. When you say yes, it’s time to knuckle
down, study, plan, and execute the plan. It’s time to make alliances
and mastermind groups. It’s time to start networking. Most important
of all, it’s time to act. Take sustained persistent action that doesn’t
recognize failure and never gives up. This type of action perceives
setbacks as stepping-stones. Being positive and saying yes means
running your mind in a positive manner. It means taking charge of your
thoughts and shaping your own destiny, and it’s hard work. Only a few
internally motivated individuals have enough persistence, courage, and
desire to keep themselves positive.
When you are negative, you cross the finish line without getting out of
your chair, and the prize you win for crossing this line is a one way
ticket to Nowhere Land.
Being positive is hard. After crossing the starting line, the finish
line is nowhere in sight. Only hard work and determination bring you to
the finish line. However, the rewards of crossing the starting line are
great. You choose your own prize and destination, and the challenges
are big. Just because you initially said yes to life doesn’t mean that
you will cross the finish line and win your reward. You will repeatedly
encounter the temptation to quit.
Being positive is
harder than being negative. In the game of life, there are hundreds of
critics for each person who says yes to life and yes to excellence.
Negative thinkers abound, and they happily point out the futility of
your endeavors. You will not meet many cheerleaders to help you stay
positive; you must keep yourself positive and be your own cheerleader.
ZERO TOLERANCE TO NEGATIVE THINKING
DAVID J. ABBOTT M.D.
Part I - Everything You Need to Know About Depression
1. The
Land of Depression
Welcome to the Land of Depression where backward thinking
rules.
4. How
to Create a Positive Brain
You are responsible for the chemistry of your brain. When
you choose your thoughts, you choose your brain
chemistry. When you change your thoughts, you change your
brain chemistry. You are not the victim of your
chemistry; you are its creator.
5. Positive
Operating System
Positive thinking is the right type of thinking. It's the
natural software for your mind and is the most efficient way
to run your brain.
6. Real
Power Over Depression
The most powerful force in the universe is God's love. When
your heart is full of God's love, it's full of his
presence and power. God's love points you in the right
direction and gives you the power to make the trip.
11.
Renew Your Mind
To win the battle against depression, you need a mind
transplant; you need a completely new way of thinking to
receive an entirely new way of feeling..
12.
Reprogram You Mind with a Positive Operating System
The First Law of Focus states that what you think about
expands. You must learn to use the power of positive
focus to install a positive operating system in your mind.
22.
Negative Thoughts Are a Stop Sign
Negative thoughts alert you to the fact there is a problem.
They make you stop what you are doing and force
you to deal with it.
25.
Turn Bad Things into Better Things
No amount of positive thinking will take something bad
and turn it into something good, but positive thinking
will turn it into something better..
28.
Strong Arm Your Mind
Beating depression is a dogfight, but it's a fight you
can win. Here are twenty things you can do to give your
mind a massive push in a positive direction.
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THE RED SEA
CHRONICLES - A FIRST CLASS SAILING ADVENTURE
When Dr. Dave isn't working as a flying Doctor for the Indian Health
Service, he is sailing around the world on his sailboat. Find out what
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Captain Dave and his
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hours of video with professional cameras to show people what it's like
to sail on a small boat around the world.
The Red Sea Chronicles is a one hour and twenty-two minute feature
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