Dear LPG,

I wrote a message last March in my attempt to encourage my fellow readers to think positive, having worked out that I had chosen the date as far away in the year as possible from today to get you started (if LPG have posted this message on the day I requested).  (►►►)

When writing that message, I was thinking about how negative we can be sometimes.  We older people often manage to mask what we are really thinking about, and often those thoughts recur and bother us for ages.  I guess that, at best, they do take up time in the retired person’s day but at what cost?  They only manage to make us feel pretty negative and downhearted.  Have you ever had something negative stuck in your head which, even when you take it with you to a telephone conversation, a party or a club where you are supposed to be having fun and chatting with friends, still succeeds to obstruct what should be happy thoughts, while you outwardly pretend that everything in your world is fine?  I think that it is also true that many negative thoughts we experience involve problems and situations that we can really do little to change.  Have you ever wondered why we spend so much time on those ones?

Perhaps the secret is not to waste too much time on them and get involved doing something positive that will give you a sense of constructive achievement. Even someone else’s good news can give you a lift, be they real or characters from fiction. 

The Christian part of me reminds me that we are all told to let God deal with the things that we can’t do anything about and, even if you don’t agree with that doctrine, have you ever considered how much time we waste doing all that worrying; not to mention the toll it takes on our brains, minds and emotional wellbeing?

So, I would like to have another go at urging readers who find themselves in the mind-bending doldrums to celebrate this day in the spirit that its national name suggests and get started on thinking about something positive. If you are not studying anything else, studying the science behind positive thinking might be the way to go.

Even if just a few of the people who read this message tried the links that I left below, I know that my efforts will have paid off and today is a little bit more positive… 

Rudy Morgan

Rudy has found us some information about National Positive Thinking Day…

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…and  again, offers some more internet perceptions of where to start learning how to think positive…

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