Self-Esteem - Part 2

The Power of Positive Thoughts

and Self-Affirmations  

As I was contemplating writing this post, I did a part of a devotional today that dealt with the power of the emotions.  I want to quote some of it here:

“The emotions are a vital part of the human personality.  They can be powerful motivators, both for good and for evil.  And, depending on the emotions, they make us happy, sad, fearful, or joyous.  Positive emotions can bring a feeling of satisfaction and well-being; negative ones tend to cause pain and anguish.  Though the first ones can promote mental health, a prolonged exposure to negative emotions may bring about behavioral and relational problems.  Thus emotions can play an important part in our overall well-being."   We sometimes succeed in gaining control over the emotions and other times give up control, allowing negative emotions to lead us into wrong actions.

How we think effects our emotions

and a specific action is the result.

i.e.: if we think someone is blaming us for something we didn’t do, we become defensive, or our feelings are hurt and we become angry and yell at them because of the accusation we think someone made against us.

Our actions are an end result of our

thoughts & feelings.

If we have positive thoughts, we will have positive feelings as well.  Our actions will also be positive and productive.  If we have negative thoughts, we will have negative feelings as well.  Our actions, more than likely, will be negative and produce negative results.

i.e.:  have you ever met someone who "felt" as though everyone was always out to get him or was against him?  This person is frequently defensive of things you say and negative in his outlook on life and often has drama in his life.

We must remember that how we think, effects how we feel and what we do.  These things do not only effect us, they effect everyone that we come in contact with... our friends, our families, our church family, our co-workers, etc... 

We are NOT an island unto ourselves... no, NOT EVEN a peninsula unto ourselves.  So, make the choice today to think positively, thus producing a positive output in your life and postively influencing others.

!Decide-Act-Change!

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