Who follows the theory that if you think negatively, only negative things follow?

Question

if you think positively, positive things happen?

Answer 1

i agree with it but always forget to follow it

Answer 2

Yes it's true. I know this now if only I could live by it! I tend to be negative & sadly the things that I fear will happen do often happen. (I'm going to get sick, my boyfriend is going to leave me, etc etc). It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you say something, if you put it out there, think it, believe it, then the universe responds & gives you what you expect. Your attitude, your thoughts affect how you act, changing the way you see the world and conduct yourself in it. It also affects how people see/treat you. I am learning to be positive (it's a struggle for me but I'm determined!) & the times when I have thought positively, believed in myself, followed through on my goals, then positive things did happen (like buying my house, performing as a singer/songwriter, showing my paintings & selling a couple, meeting Mr. Right). Whether you think your life will be good or whether you think it will be bad, you are right. You make it so. So think good things! It can't hurt! Believe in yourself. Use positive affirmations. Write down your goals & take steps to achieve them. The universe will listen to whatever you tell it, so watch what you say! & most importantly watch what you say to yourself. Love yourself. Avoid negative self-talk because when you tear yourself down then you make yourself unhappy & make it difficult to achieve anything. Good luck!

Answer 3

Whether you 'follow' the theory or not, it is so.
Whatever you think, so is your reality. Therefore if you think negative thoughts, your life will show negative outcomes. The good news is that the opposite is also true.
Think positive thoughts and your life will show positive outcomes.
Hope this helped.

Answer 4

Well.... I agree. Simply because it is the equivalent of taking life's lemons and making lemonade. If we are confronted with a situation we can think of it as either a positive happening or a negative one. If one thinks negatively then they think negatively of everything around them (I assume). Therefore they look for the negative in things therefore everything appears to only be negative. In short since all they "look" for is negative all they "see" is negative. People who think negative avoid or ignore the positive. So to them everything "appears" to be negative. It's all in how the mind wants to percieve the situation. This works similarly for having a positive outlook on events. e.g Take 'lemons and make lemonade'! :)

Answer 5

Not exactly. I think that positive and negative things will still happen in roughly the same ratio. However you will notice the negative things more if you are thinking negatively and the positive things more if you are thinking positively.

Answer 6

Our thoughts have effect on the world around us, the negativity will become negative outcomes.

Not only your negative feeling but even the negativity of the people around you would also affect it.

If I extend it further- if you want something badly then the chances are that you would get lots of obstacles.
When you do not really want a think badly, you may just get it.

Try it in your life and see for yourself.

Answer 7

That is pretty much what happens. The reverse also seems to be true. optimistic cheerful people are fun to be around and they don't complain. In mind/body healing it is emphasized that thinking positively helps you get well and positive hopeful patients frequently survive illnesses that negative people do not, all things being equal. So I guess we should all count our blessings, right, friends?

Answer 8

it comes down to what defines positive and negative in this case. At their most extreme, "Positive" could be construed as absolute mindless, idealistic optimism and "Negative" could be total suicidal, nihilistic oblivion. Let's bear in mind that scepticism requires a fair balnce of both positive and negative in this case.
However, if you want to be miserable you will be miserable, and some people are just happier that way . . . the little perverts.

Answer 9

It is common experience that negative thoughts put you in a bad state of mind, and can eventually lead up to you doing something unpleasant; positive thoughts on the other hand have very benign affect psychological affect, they add to your mental strength, making you feel happy, in control and pleasant. Based upon this very common experience is our commonly held belief that if one thinks negatively one will always act negatively and vice versa. But this is not always the case; there are just probable possibilities not certainties.

When for example people fight for their causes, genuine interests and for benefit of their rights they strategise with aims to cause harm to the opposition and achieve their own objectives that can also be negative for an outsider. Things like this happen most often in life where negative mind is kept within a positive and highly purposeful mind. The flow of negativity in such cases is channelled into appropriate direction and do not cause harm to the person of the thinking body itself.

In more personal cases however the principle the negatively in thoughts will follow negativity in action applies more rigorously; as a matter of fact the more individualistic a person is the more likely it is for him or her to act under direct influence of spontaneously accruing thoughts in the mind. People when isolated under the influences of acute personal situations of emotional nature tend to act more impulsively and directly with less intervention from the rational mind – the mind that can check thoughts.

Our thoughts are constantly under check by various things that constitutes our mind that we know as ‘I’, our knowledge, experiences, beliefs and people in our lives all add to the space of our mind, the space that we use to process our thoughts and think before we do almost anything.

The most interesting aspect related to our mind is when our thoughts are imaginative, fanciful, creative or overly ambitious; we like to do all that we can imagine, and we like to have all that we can fancy. And with this ability in our mind we create our own wonderlands and dreamscapes; we write stories, full of all sorts of creature both good and bad, but howsoever bad an idea we conjure up, we always like to see notions of goodness prevail upon all things in the world.

Answer 10

That's a twist on the self-fulfilling prophecy syndrome. For example, if you read your horoscope and it says you are going to have a fabulous day you will subconsciously work to make it a fabulous day.

If you are a negative gloomy gus, then you will work towards making yoiur enviroment gloomy. You will look at the glass as half empty.

Answer 11

Scientific tests have proven that if our minds think a certain way for a long time, the physical structure of your brain changes to think more in that way. Its part of adapting to our environment and is what our bodies and minds do to adjust. I follow the theory.