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Harness Your Negative Thoughts and Skepticism into Positive Change!

I’ve recently come to realize that I’m a skeptic! As someone with an advanced degree trained in a scientific field of study I was taught to think like a Linguist and question theories and their concomitant data (I learned that word in linguistics lol). The ‘proof,’ so to speak, in science comes not in proving something to be true, but in the fact that a theory cannot be disproved. There is a subtle, skeptical difference in the logical landscape.

Ever had those days when your thoughts are negative and self-doubting? Ever try controlling your thoughts yet those few slivers of disbelief in your goals keep breaking away, echoing around in your brain? Do these trends, over time, bring your emotional state down? Well, that’s human nature! Having conflicting thoughts does not necessarily make you skeptical, it does not necessarily make you a bad person either; in fact, it can be a GOOD thing!

If you learn to identify and harness patterns of negative thoughts and skepticism, you can turn that into positive change via NOW-Power!

First of all, there is a difference between having negative thoughts and being a skeptic.

NEGATIVE THOUGHTS
These are perfectly natural and quite unavoidable, despite what any ‘expert’ on the subject tells you. By inverse logic, I’m not an expert, therefore I am right. LOL that was a joke! If negative thoughts predominate your general attitude, that makes you a negative thinker in my book. If you’re a dark cloud of rain, no one likes you and you complain all the time, you probably are a negative thinker. Yuck! Time to change that if you are! NOW!

Again, it is perfectly natural to have negative thoughts, they are kind of like an alert system for our emotions, a safety-check valve to make sure things are going right and we are not living with blinders on. They, to me, are an evolutionary compensatory mechanism which allows us to QUESTION OUR ENVIRONMENT from making incorrect or fatal decisions. The key is how WE CONTROL OUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS.

We must take inventory and control our negative, self-doubting thoughts every day! We have to switch them over to positive thoughts, stay grounded and focused on our goals and never let them control us! This, my friends, takes practice!!! It takes determination and focus. It takes a healthy dose of ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ mentality. However, when mastered, your positive thoughts can unlock a whole new world of abundance, creativity, happiness, peace, wealth, whatever the Law of Attraction can manifest for us!

I have spent years challenging my own thoughts! I’ve had to stop them, redirect them, shoo them away, laugh at them, anything to change my thinking to be positive. The more we keep at this our brains will actually change! It’s the science of neuroplasticity!

Seriously, you can conquer this! “It’s hard to see the forest from the trees” is a great quote. In order to inventory your negative thoughts, you have to see them first. In order to see them, you need to contrast them. You contrast your negative thoughts by surrounding them with positive ones! So, you have to start THINKING POSITIVE – surround yourself with positive people, read positive affirmations, create a positive vision, create positive goals, tell yourself positive things all the time. Very quickly you will start to see all of the negative ugliness that you have been feeding yourself. This took me years to unravel and reorganize! I took all of those negative things I had been laying at my doorstep since I was a kid and BANISHED them! I replaced them with positive affirmations. At one point, I made an audio compilation of snippets of positive affirmations and lectures put online by various law of attraction speakers and played that in my car while I drove to work and back! That was pretty cool!

Those affirmations, by the way, are not affectations; they are affirmations based on REAL SUCCESSES I have had using the Law of Attraction!!! Success after success I used to build myself back up, and guess what? Success creates more success. I replaced all the negative crap with all the positive successes I’ve had! You can too, believe it!

It’s the reason I started NOW-Power! I want to share what I have learned with you.

SKEPTICS
We have to parse out negative thinkers and skeptics. To me negative thinkers are inherently more dangerous. Skeptics love to question and poke holes in ideas because they are (1) naturally inquisitive; and (2) need to know how things work. That is not a bad thing, it’s quite a positive attribute actually LOL.

Skeptics that delve into the Law of Attraction can become its best adherents. Having a practice that says “Law of” in front of it is a big red target with flashing lights on it to a skeptic! It’s like a moth being drawn to a flame. However, once the burden of proof is satisfied, the skeptical mind can become a forceful driver of the Law of Attraction. Indeed, even titles like The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles) can become deeply absorbed by someone with a skeptical/scientific mind.

I started off as an intense skeptic, as you may have guessed already. I am highly skeptical and cynical in nature, which seems strange if you read all the positive things I have written on here! That’s because in order for my emotions to be satisfied, my thoughts have to be satisfied, and in order for my thoughts to be satisfied, my skepticism has to be satisfied first.

To me, if you are skeptical about the Law of Attraction you simply require a higher degree of proof than the next person. My challenge to the skeptics out there is to harness that inquisitive nature and put the Law of Attraction to the test! While negative thinkers might always find a reason ‘why not,’ skeptics will enjoy the empirical challenge.

Beyond the endless dross of positive affirmations that seem to pervade the LOA, I believe there is a SCIENCE underlying the LAW portion of the LAW of Attraction. For me, it’s not the *Theory of Attraction, it is the Law of Attraction.

In summary, negative thinkers, it’s time to change your attitude now! Skeptics, it’s time to strip down the Law of Attraction, see how it works, and test it.