Pessimism or Negative Thinking

If you think that Pessimism or Negative Thinking are not at all useful and important or if you are just trying to run away from your negative thoughts then this article is for you because here I am going to explore the potential benefits or rather importance of these negative terms.

As we all know that every coin has two sides, THINKING is not at all an exception. I already talked about Positive Thinking in my previous blog and now it’s the time for Negative Thinking. In previous article I wrote that positive thinking is more important and helpful than just being optimistic. But in this case Pessimism is more important than Negative Thinking i.e. just the reverse.

                                                               

   In Pessimism we expect the worst possible outcome of an event, while in Negative Thinking we mould our negative thoughts & finally act to fructify that expectation. However, both the attitudes are not good for a healthy mind; but the question is can we discard all the pessimistic thoughts that generate in our mind? In this World where you will find so many pessimistic minds around you, is it really possible to be an ideal Positive Thinker? For me it was really an arduous task, and till date it is. But I found the way to use these thoughts in the positive manner. Whenever any such thought came in my mind, I learnt that this is also a possible outcome and tried to analyze the actions which can lead me to this result. But instead of working on those actions I eschewed them so that the remaining actions can lead me to the right path and the right outcome. Through my experiences I can tell you that it is easy to avoid the wrong actions than to always do the correct things. Say I give you ten things that you must not do, and simultaneously ten things which are to be done. Once you start to master them, you will find that it is easy to avoid the wrong actions because once you start doing it you know that this is not to be done and you stop doing it while in right things you may deviate from doing it and since you don’t know the negative effects or the undesired outcome of your actions you will continue doing it and will not achieve the desired and positive result.

Our mind gets attracted to negative thoughts much faster and if you don’t know the negative affects of your actions you will surely move into the wrong path. But by the above written method Pessimism will give you the knowledge of the thoughts and actions that are not desired and your job is to discard it from the positive counterpart.

So, don’t run from your pessimistic thoughts instead just analyze and replace them from the optimistic ones so that they don’t bear fruits to make you a Negative Thinker.

“Know about the Negative Thoughts and Actions and try to avoid them and you will automatically be a POSITIVE THINKER.”

BE HAPPY AND KEEP GROWING MENTALLY!!

Optimism & Positive Thinking

OPTIMISM!! A term that is familiar to everyone.  So, let me ask, what is Optimism? What I think is most of the people would say Optimism is thinking positive and there is no harm in saying or thinking that but unfortunately there is a lot of difference between Optimism and Positive Thinking. If I state the dictionary meaning of Optimism it would be “an inclination to put the most favourable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome”. I hope it is clear what Optimism is? The definition lucidly states the words inclination & anticipation. This means Optimism is just an inclination towards a particular event or a prediction of an event. But this is just the beginning or a zero-level thought. What after this? What an Optimist is doing to fructify his inclination or prediction? So, the answers to all the questions are POSTIVE THINKING. In short, Optimism is just taking the things positive and Positive Thinking is thinking positive. 

Now, let me focus on the first part of the dictionary meaning “An inclination to put the most favourable construction upon actions and events”. If I say that you are a very positive & calm guy. You never argue or fight with anyone & you are just inclined to put the most favourable construction upon your actions. Now say someone criticized you and you showed no reaction to it as you are an optimist. It’s good that you were successful to avoid the skirmish. But till what time will you be able to continue doing that. Actually you are just controlling your anger and one day you will surely regurgitate all your anger upon him. But instead if you are a Positive Thinker, several questions will come into your mind as soon as you are criticized. You will think that why has this happened? Why the person did criticize me in this way? What is there in me to change? And you will change yourself so that you don’t get criticized again.

Now, let’s talk about the second part of the definition “to anticipate the best possible outcome”. Suppose two teams are to play a cricket match where one is weaker than the other and is sure to lose. An Optimist captain of the weaker team will anticipate/predict the best possible outcome that they can win the match. But the question is HOW?? While on the other hand, if the team captain is a Positive Thinker again several questions will come into his mind. He will think that how they can win the match? What are the strategies that can make his team a winner? And he will make his team as stronger as the other team and will emerge as a much better contender than before.

So, the difference is clear, “Positive Thinking can make you an Optimist. But Optimism can never make you a Positive Thinker."

First be a Positive Thinker and then an Optimist because Optimist may impede you from becoming a Positive Thinker. There are always some questions or difficulties attached with your optimistic thoughts just identify them by deep thinking and work out the strategies to resolve them by positive thinking.

BE HAPPY AND KEEP GROWING METALLY!!