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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:17 am
I found this picture on Facebook and wanted to share it with you guys. Does anyone here have any other tips for staying positive? :3 
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:22 am
See other post regarding thinking on what made one smile.
Think not of what you want not.
Visualize what you want to realize.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:34 am
Ummmm
sweatdrop
Well, I was reading a
pretty sad book a few years ago
about a girl with a severe eating disorder.
She got to the point
of needing a feeding tube
and her parents sent her away for treatment.
When she got there,
her therapist told her
to stand in front of the mirror once
a day everyday, look herself in the eye
and say, I love you.
I know it doesn't sound like much
but its actually a lot harder then it seems.
After awhile, she realized how powerful
it is to love your own image.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:13 pm
To go along with what Cinder said, I believe if you take a photo of yourself everyday and tell yourself that you are indeed beautiful, you begin to believe it. The first step for accepting yourself is telling yourself the things you want to hear. It starts with loving yourself.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:18 pm
Aw, you guys are great.
Yeah, I used to hate on myself pretty bad when I was a teen. I thought I needed bigger boobs, a smaller nose, and other nit picky things. Then each problem kinda seemed less of a problem over time. My mom said something like, "At least your nose isn't as big as mine!" And that kinda helped with that. Then my aunt with DD boobs told me she wished she could have small ones like mine. I realized, especially with women, we want what we don't have. And what a waste of time. Worrying in itself is not good, but when there are so many other things to worry about that are actually important, why bother caring about looks. I'm completely happy in my skin now. And I really do love myself. I learned to be greedy when it matters.
I really like what Diff said. You sound like a great leader. That's so right about not focusing on what you don't want. I sometimes wonder if it's deeper than just portraying yourself as happy and then good things happening for you. I wonder about the science of it. Like quantum physics. How they have proven molecules react differently when you aren't looking at them. Well, if you see the world with "rose colored glasses"... is it possible you actually really do change the world around you, like on a molecular level? I really don't see how it's not possible.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:37 pm
I actually want to suggest a movie that I watched on Netflix to you guys called 'The Institute'. It actually taught a fair amount of people to open up to the world around them and appreciate it more. Let me get a synopsis. Via Wikipedia: Quote: The Institute is a 2013 documentary film directed by Spencer McCall reconstructing the story of the "Jejune Institute", an alternate reality game set in San Francisco, through interviews with the participants and the creators. The game was produced in 2008 by Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull. Over the course of 3 years, it enrolled more than 10,000 players who, responding to eccentric flyers plastered all over the city, started the game by receiving their "induction" at the fake headquarters of the Institute, located in an office building in San Francisco's Financial District. That doesn't say much there but the participants they interviewed said they viewed the world so much more after participating. I really liked the film. The 'Jejune Institute' no longer exists, which is why they stopped the alternate-reality game.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:01 pm
I think it's so true what you said about everyone wanting what they don't have. I used to always wish that I was thinner, but now I realize that if I was stick skinny I would probably wish I was curvy! it's so hard to really love yourself when you're constantly told something else is better. the grass is always greener on the other side, right? now even though there are things about myself and my body and everything that aren't perfect, they are perfect to me. and when you love yourself it is a lot easier for others to love you too. (: it's just important to create your own positivity I guess.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:20 pm
Yes, it really is. :3 When you are negative, I think negative things happen to you. I realized something just today about myself. When I used to have a problem of any kind where I had to call a customer service line, I would usually be angry. As soon as they got on the phone I would say something like, "MY $%#& PHONE ISN'T WORKING AGAIN!" Even back then I knew it wasn't the persons fault on the other end of the phone. But I still did it. Well this morning I got woken up to texts from my friend, 7 in a row! It was one drawn out thing, with barely more than 3 sentences in each text. So I called tech support and found out my phone was programmed wrong. After the call I started to remember how I used to be, and it made me feel bad. These people on the other end of the phone are just that, people. They don't deserve to be yelled at. I told Pete, my boyfriend, how I used to be a terrible person for directing my anger at other people. He told me it wasn't my fault, it was my mom. And I thought about it. My mom is the most negative person I've ever met. Countless times I've listened to her scream at people who didn't deserve it. She really made me that negative person. I can't blame her, because many people can rise above their upbringing. But I know the cause. My mom is so negative, and her life honestly sucks. But now I think, she's not negative because her life sucks. Her life sucks because she is negative. She complains about being sick and focusing on it, which I've even told her in the past makes it worse. She complains she can't work, but I know she can volunteer and do something with her life. She complains she has no friends, but the truth is everyone is afraid of her. She put herself in her own situation by being negative. Well, I have tried and tried to help her, and I have given up because I think part of her enjoys the "poor me" thing too much. But I don't have to be that way. I can focus on being positive and nice.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:44 pm
I was that way to customer service on the phone too, until I worked retail and got a taste of my own medicine on a regular basis. And I agree! Being positive even in tough times has always been the only thing that works for me.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:03 pm
c v i t l i n I was that way to customer service on the phone too, until I worked retail and got a taste of my own medicine on a regular basis. And I agree! Being positive even in tough times has always been the only thing that works for me. Customer service blows so much. I'm kinda scared about what job I get around here. I didn't want to work retail but that's about all there is. I just have to stay positive and remember what I could be like on a bad day if I get an angry customer.
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:30 pm
Meditation, Walking, & Pilates! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:52 pm
Elektric_Sugar_Pop Meditation, Walking, & Pilates! 3nodding I do.. none. sad So I need to add more things to my resolution, haha. That's okay! I've been doing a little better with everything. So why not one more thing. Walking I actually planned on doing once the weather is nice again.
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