10 Ways To Attract Positive Energy August 28, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Gratitude, Health & Wellness, Life Balance, Mindfulness.Tags: Forgiveness, Gratitude, Health & Wellness, Meditation, Mindfulness
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We are magnets. When we emit positive energy (thoughts, feelings, and vibrations), we attract more positives to us.
Bueno! Life, she is good!
Mangia! Mangia!
When we dwell on the negatives, we attract negatives ~ sapping our energy and strength in the process.
If you’re tired of living under a perpetual rain cloud, keep reading!
Yes, Eeyore, you too!
If we want to attract heath, wellness, and vitality to ourselves, we must stop circulating (and re-circulating) toxic, negative thoughts and feelings.
Here are 10 Ways to Attract Positive Energy into your life, while boosting your immune system, curing dis-ease, and counter-balancing daily stress:
1. Love and accept yourself as you are right now. Start a list to remind yourself of all your wonderful qualities. Add to it every day.
E.g., I am the most positive person I know.
2. Free yourself from past resentments and disappointments about who you were yesterday. Stop engaging in self-blame and guilt for past acts and omissions. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Revel in it.
As Scrooge announced on Christmas morn, “I am not the man I was!”
3. Let go of any and all resentment you’re hanging onto about everyone and everything else. Stop looking for reasons to criticize and blame others for their acts and omissions. Let go of your desire to control others.
The past is gone. It is what it is, and cannot be changed. Let it go.
4. Stop giving your power away. Use your time, energy, and vitality wisely. Every time you choose to focus on a negative, you are depleting your reserves rather than re-charging your batteries.
Focus on circulating and re-circulating positive, life-affirming ideas.
5. Use creative visualization and your imagination to your advantage, not your detriment. Instead of picturing worst case scenarios, see things as you want them to be. Visualize yourself doing things in a state of perfect health.
Visualize ideal outcomes and happy endings, not dire consequences.
6. Do not speak of your illness, or dis-ease with others. The more attention you place on what you don’t want in your life, the more energy it absorbs. Remove your attention from your dis-ease. Put your focus and attention on the things in your life that make you feel good.
Starve your illness and dis-ease by refusing to dwell on them.
7. Love is the antidote to fear. If you appreciate the many blessings in your life, and express gratitude for anything and everything, you begin to flow in a healing bath (rather than languishing in toxins). Develop an attitude of gratitude by making a list of all the things you are grateful for, including increased health and vitality.
Be grateful for the health and well-being coming your way.
8. Recognize that you have the power to heal yourself. That healing power flows from the thoughts you think. Allow positive thoughts to circulate, eliminating stress and boosting your immune system.
There is no such thing as incurable. Miracles abound.
9. Be happy. Appreciate this moment. Resist nothing. Love yourself and others. Be grateful for small blessings. Make happiness your number one priority. When you remain positive, you summon well-being, and vanquish illness and dis-ease.
When we exist in a state of happiness, we boost our immune systems and allow our bodies to use energy reserves for healing.
10. Laugh! Laugh again! Watch funny movies and recall memories that make you laugh. Once you access the joy within, let it expand to fill your entire being, crowding out illness and dis-ease.
Laugh your way back to health.
These strategies work, but you must remember to apply them in your life. Not once, not twice . . . EVERY DAY!
They won’t work if you give up, collapse into a heap, revert back to your previous negativity, while whining, It’s too hard.
Of course it’s hard. But it’s worth it . . . after all, your health, vitality, and freedom are at stake.
Master your thoughts, master your life.
Related posts: Can You Change Reality? * Grateful (Kate Shrewsday) * Tigger or Eeyore . . . It’s Your Call * Only If . . . Je Voudrais Voler * Self-Fulfilling Prophesies * Creative Visualization * Silence the Inner Critic * To Dream The Impossible Dream
Great advice and very true
I wonder how much illness and dis-ease would we eliminate if we learned to tame our worry by transforming it into wonder.
Great post Nancy – very Victor Frankl. As for #6 – don’t even ever call it “yours”. Thanks for a good list to think about.
Good point, Tammy . . . {{GET OUT!!!}}
I’ve heard of Victor Frankl, but can’t place the name. I’ll give him a quick google.
Norman Cousins laughed himself well after being diagnosed with a fatal illness with a short life expectancy. Since then, several authors I’ve read (including Peter McWilliams and Deepak Chopra) have addressed:
(1) the body’s ability to heal itself, and
(2) the inability of disease to co-exist with positive thoughts and energy.
When we laugh and smile, we crowd out our illness. (And, even if we don’t, we feel better.)
Viktor Frankl ~ amazing person, wrote Man’s Search for Meaning, that has been a guide to me ever since I first laid hands on the book. His story and his ilfe’s work is inspirational, to say the least. Hope you get a copy to read. Well worth it. For me, it was life-changing.
I have read up on his inspirational story. Amazing man!
Thanks, Cecelia.
Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning…one of the most important and special books I’ve ever read…remarkable book and a remarkable man. I know someone who bought a case of that book and has been giving them away to people for years.
I did something like that with “Simplify Your Life” . . . I bought a big stack and gave a copy to everyone on my Holiday list that year.
Number 4 is the best on the list!
Thanks
I tend to agree. Especially in conjunction with #9 and #10.
Chasing negatives with positives. Aah …
Another great post!
I like to think I’m lucky
I haven’t won the lottery yet, but then I have never bought a ticket
Thanks, Tokeloshe.
When we focus on the positives (instead of dwelling on the negatives), life always seems a bit brighter.
Outstanding post. Take away our worry and yes I agree Illnesses can be cured.
Thanks, Jackie. Much of our suffering is self-created by the negative thoughts we think.
Excellent! Nearly a week spent with my Mother (sapper)and she has sapped my energy. Why? because I let her. I am going to print this off and pin one copy on my noticeboard and send a copy to her!
Cheers
PiP
Good for you! I’m glad that you realized the benefits of recharging with scones and devon cream.
Now I need to convert those postive thoughts to motivate myself to lose all the extra weight I put on!
Walk a little more. Eat a little less.
And, above all, take time to de-stress.
Being stressed produces adrenaline with causes us to secrete “cortisol” which adds to abdominal fat.
http://www.howtobefit.com/cortisol-stress-body-fat.htm
Great list. good to be reminded from time to time.
None of us know whether our journey is nearing the end. It pays to make the most of THIS moment.
If we are OK right now . . . we are OK.
These 10 steps are so true and so simple many are deceived by thinking they are too simple and don’t even try them. But fortunate are those of us who give them a try – not easy at first, but when they become habits the payoff is continuous. Great post, Nancy.
It’s hard work . . . but it gets easier.
At times, we backslide . . . but we get up faster each time.
And it is SO worth it!
deflecting others’ negativity is another “must do”…
I think I’m going to get a button to wear ~ NO Negative Energy Drains Allowed.
As Scrooge announced on Christmas morn, “I am not the man I was!” I love this one because as I got older I want to be a scrooge but it makes no sense. When I had my daughter in the house, I had so many great memories..and when she is not around it is harder to decorate and celebrate. Thanks.
Like the Grinch, Scrooge’s heart grew 2-sizes that day!
Great post and good advice! I would simply like to add that doing good things no matter how small has as much of a positive impact on your state of mind as thinking good things does.
Doing good makes us feel good.
Dr. Bernie Siegel’s book “Love, Medicine, and Miracles” has been a book that I have lived by in many ways for many years. In it is a statement that has influenced me greatly: “There is no such thing as false hope. There is only false hopelessness.” Says it all, doesn’t it?
I see what he means, but . . . I’ve seen many people drown in unrealistic expectations (i.e., false hope) because they are completely out of touch with reality.
They hope to get good grades . . . without studying. They hope to lose weight without proper diet and exercise. They hope that others will change so they won’t have to. Etc.
We need to live life with EYES wide open.
Yes you are right, however, I separate “Hope” (TRUE hope) from “wishes,” or pie-in-the sky dreaming. Hope comes from faith (in whatever you choose to have faith, and involves follow-through with commitment to that for which you have hoped. I don’t believe that it ever disappoints. Wonderful scripture definition of Faith (of which hope is a part) –
“Now faith is the promise of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Real hope changes your perspective and the way you view whatever happens in your life (good or not-so-good).
I “hope” you’re right.
Well then – I know I’m right, and your hope will mean that you do/will too!
Positive thinking should most definitely be a way of life. I am a firm believer that we attract what we send out. If you emit love & positive thoughts, then all of that will travel around & eventually return & enrich your own life. Being happy & sending love spreading love around is much better than the alternative. I love you all & may I say Thank You Universe for all the goodness that has been sent my way. I am very grateful for all the blessings I have received & am thankful for each & every moment I am blessed with. Once again,Thank You Universe & much love to everyone on this beautiful planet. Also,thank you for putting this list together-it was very inspiring.
Thanks, Jennifer. Your comment is exactly what I needed to read right now! Sending positive energy your way.
Excellent points, all!
Thanks, Z&G!
Came across your article and made me feel that ive been attracting too much negative energy by my thinking, i will try to practice what i have lernt. Thank you.
Good luck . . . changing habitual thinking gets easier with practice. We learn best by applying what we’ve learned until it becomes our new habit.
Nice to read something encouraging and positive like this. I agree with Cindy re the importance of #4
This post is a favorite for lots of visitors to SLTW. It usually gets the most views every day.
Multo gracias. It’s always good to be reminded. Therefore, when clouds get in the way, I’ll just log in to this article.
The sun is always shining . . . somewhere.
Nancy when I saw this title in my inbox I could hardly wait to click over here! I have set this post to my favorites so I can read it every dang day. I am going to write it down or print it off and put it some place in the house where I can read it when I need it!
Nancy! I truly was suppose to find this post this morning..
I got all befuddled. I thought I had clicked on this from email but as I read your first post here that was in my inbox I looked on your sidebar as I usually do for your next recent posts BUT I looked at Top Posts by mistake instead of Recent Words of Wisdom! I was suppose to see this TODAY! Serendipity.. 
I learned about that here too!!
Yay! I love it when the Universe points us in the right direction at the right time so we find something that resonates with us in just the right way.
This posts garners lots of traffic every day. We can all use a bit more positive energy, eh?
Absoulutely!
I just had an all-day-sucker’s worth of proof of this –
Awesome! Nothing like being inspired with positive energy . . . it’s like HELIUM lifting us off the ground so we can float.
This is a fine list, Nancy, and so very true!
Thanks, Tom. I never expected this post to be such a favorite . . . but I think it resonates with lots of readers.
It’s always good to have a reminder to focus on what we can change, rather than what is outside our control. And then we sometimes find that more was in our control than we ever suspected.
Well, today is goosebump day.
You added everything that is of value when it comes to self healing. I like how you emphazise that yes, it’s hard to stick to changes, but it’s worth as it’s our health.
I have seen blogs now and then that are exclusively for the purpose of talking about the writer’s illness and I say to myself, that’s keeping it in place.
I know, right? I want to scream and say, “Stop owning your dis-ease. Focus on what you like about your life and maybe the disease will drift away out of boredom.”
Not sure the first few lines obey the laws of physics
But I love the ten commandments that follow 
Metaphor, my friend! Metaphor!
~ Physics’ got nuttin’ ta do wit’ it!
Not physics -> quantum physics!
The best way to test scientific hypotheses is to set up a controlled experiment, in a sterile lab, with petri dishes and white lab coats. And goggles to protect your eyes.
No lab, no problem. Go to the grocery store. Frown. Frown as big as you can. Think dark thoughts.
Attracting any positive people with that energy shield? Nope.
Now . . . S~M~I~L~E!
Wander around the same store and see what happens once you start sending out positive vibes in all directions.
Oh, look, here come some nice scientists wearing white lab coats. What’s that they’re carrying? A straight-jacket? I wonder who that’s for . . .
“No. No. I’m not crazy . . . I’m just conducting an experiment.”
You might also be interested in this post:
http://nrhatch.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/good-vibrations/
Whoo! So True… thank you for some Glow, this morning, Nancy!
Tee!Hee!Hee! and Giggle, some, too!
Thanks, Karen! Sometimes when we S~M~I~L~E . . . people wonder what we’ve been up to.
We truly are energy….. Please watch this link….. We had the most amazing paranormal encounter on the Queen Mary…. We were able to capture mind boggling video of interaction with light energies. I have never seen such compelling proof!!!!! http://youtu.be/63FW7f-ywrw.
Lovely post. Just what I needed to hear and when I needed to hear it. Just to be sure, does this work for mental health as well. I searched The Secret from cover to cover looking for specific examples of mental illnesses improving using the principles. Was disapointed and doubtful when I didn’t find any.
I don’t know whether The Secret can cure mental illness, but applying these techniques will make you happier . . . even if NOTHING else changes.
I really enjoyed this post. So many great but easy strategies for enriching one’s life.
Thanks, Nancy. This is THE most popular post on SLTW ~ it’s been viewed more than any other post . . . including the 3 posts that were Freshly Pressed.
And that pleases me . . . because applying one or more of these strategies is apt to make life a bit brighter.
I wanted to add that I use visualization and it has always worked for me along with gratitude for even the simplest things, e.g. running water.
Congratulations on the popularity of your post. I can certainly see why.
It’s easy to overlook all the good stuff, like running water, but when we really NOTICE it . . . we feel BETTER!
Things like the After Camping Shower. So much better!
Love surrounding myself with positive people, makes the day go so much better
!
Yes . . . much more better.
Yes, flyinggma!
And I find that *expecting* everyone I meet to BE one of those positive people, makes it so much more likely to be true.
Bright Blessings ~
Good point, Karen. We often find our thoughts to be self-fulfilling prophecies.
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL AND WILL CHANGE MY LIFE!
Cool! Glad you enjoyed.