I've heard so many people say I'm not negative I am just a realist", "I don't have my head in the clouds and have my feet firmly planted on planet earth." Which makes it seem like those that think positive thoughts are somehow in dreamland. Theories such as the Law of attraction suggest that your mindset has the ability to change your reality but how true is this?! Is it irrational to believe that something POSITIVE is just around the corner when that is far from the present reality? Is it far better to think negative then if something positive does happen then you can be surprised? Are people who think positive the majority of the time even in negative situations just deluded?! Famous books such as 'The Power', 'Ask and it is given' and 'The law of attraction' suggest that life doesn't just happen to you. That you have the ability to orchestrate your life and that you have the power to implement changes in your life depending...
Have you ever lost something and felt that emptiness? Like something had been taken from you, removed from you or your life. There was some type of what I call 'subtraction'. You don't have to have been a Maths genius to understand what that means. But what if I told you, you have to subtract sometimes to add. Well in Maths that simply does make sense 2-1 does not give you 3 or 81 it gives you 1. So how does that make sense in life. It simply depends on how you look at something or the amount of reflection you give to a given situation. I am NOT discrediting in anyway your pain in a given situation. A bereavement, a missed opportunity, the ending of a marriage or relationship. I am not implying that this pain was somehow good or worthwhile. Life can be unfair, but within in some special things can happen. This concept is not absolute. Let me give you an example and this will be a vivid reminder to you. I sat with a friend and discussed the ending of a long term relationsh...