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What do you do to stay positive? Do you believe that attitude is the key to success? Have you used any of the techniques mentioned in this article? Have they worked for you? Simon Templar replied. Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it. The all encompassing power of the mind should be embraced!! Natalie replied. I too believe this attitude stuff...just make up your mind you won' t allow anything to disturb your inner peace...thats it. It works! Neelam replied. Hi I loved this article! I suffer from manic depression... how do I stay optimistic when I get such bad mood swings without my medication. Help please! Rupa replied. The comments in this page show the general attitude of readers. And they can' t even see that they need an attitude change! I read the other article on this site first, the one on why optimism is so important. I think people should read that first and then this. And then I feel that you need to have the DESIRE and the WILL to change. Without that, no technique is of any use. we can merely argue to death. Bharat replied. Arrey yaaar, I positively don' t see what the fuss is about.... article was good just little too long. Anupama replied. This is a nice article and is quite useful . I want to say about one such technique , which I had been using , especially when I' m not well or feel sad. I visualize how happy I will be , once I got over this situation .
How things will be fine again .This makes me feel better at such times . Harshad replied. Interesting debate. Makes me realize that you can' t comment to comments.

\" Your........The article is about integrating postivism into your daily life until it becomes second nature to you. \"

I found these two sentences to be paradoxical for some reason though thats not why im commenting

So how does one be positive then as thats the first step? After one attains that we can stay positive. Totally agree that attitudes are hard to change. Takes lot of trying and patience to get people to change. Bulunder Shah replied. I take drugs...the ones that are supposed to make me happy acco to my doctor. is there anyone out there who also has to do the same?
I feel it is a more authntic solution to most of our problems which are actually quite trivial anyways trupti replied. I don' t feel only attitude can bring success. We need to approach each unique aspect of experience differently - not just with positive attitude. A critical attitude is what is wanting these days. avid_gunshot replied. being positive and remaining in positive frame of mind is like living the life of the mind behind bars. The article allows no room for introspection or sadness which are vital affairs of the human heart. someone once wrote, \" Without sadness, we would not be able to love\" . I think she was right in that.
Arti replied. Its the degree of positivity and optimism that counts. Be over optimistic and you live in this utopia where you self delude ur self. Be overly pessimistic and your down in the dumps all the time. Nice article, food for thought Demosthenes replied. The article is well-written.

\" And if you think you are perfect, you should not be reading the article at all. \"
Ankita, I don' t think you should be taking this article so personally. Cool Nirvana has brought a valid point.

One cannot \" integrate positivism.\" By being positive for the heck of it, one is simply giving some sort of auto-suggestion. It might work, but one will not discover one' s true nature.

If one is steeped in negativity, he should look within himself, instead of trying to change his state of mind, and trying to \" stay positive\" . Sydney Carton replied. An interesting article. A bit idealistic at times. Positivity is definitely the need of the day and is definitely a healthy solution. However found some of the solutions like the knot thing to be... unlikely to be implemented. There is a saying that, for good to exist in the world there has to be bad, so is the case with pessimism and positivity. cool_nirvana replied. There is an implied contradiction in an article that aims to tells you how to be positive.

Consider this: any receptivity to it going to arise from the notion that one is not presently in an ideal state and so must become something else.

Positivity cannot be ' approached' by any form of excercise of will. Either one IS positve or isn' t.
Infact, even such a declaration as \" I am POSITIVE\" - by labelling such state as such - seeks to distinguish it from other states that one is not, and thereby accepts them. Thus, even such a statement is inherently contradictory. One is truly ' positive' when ONE JUST IS! Lekha replied. That was a beautifully written article. Most of the times all these ' how-to' articles are such bores. They do not give any doable techniques either. But your article was fantastic. I' m already trying out the first six. And yes, just reading it made me feel positive!