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When I’m in my mind I have positive thoughts, and when I get out of my head I have negative thoughts. What does that mean, and how can I deal with it?

Who is the “I” that is in your mind? When you are in your mind do you simply find positive thoughts arising or do you keep busy engaging with positive thinking? When you get out of your head who is it, that is getting out and where are you going? The negative thoughts that arise at that point are simply arising thoughts or engaged thinking?

There is a difference between arising thoughts and thinking. The former is a being state of disengaged witnessing and the later is engaged doing of mental activity. The following article would provide guidance on how to maintain a positive attitude as a default state of being.

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What are some ways to train your brain to be more positive?

The greatest positive attitude is the attitude of gratitude. The core nature of our mind is that of gratitude. As little babies, all of us were always in our place of joy and gratitude within. Our home within is our happy place and the energy of gratitude is available in limitless quantities there. We have simply got lost and forgotten our way back home to the grounded place within us. How did we get lost and where did we get lost? We got lost in our thinking mind by getting engaged with the non-stop mental activity in it. The following article explains this. Simply pause for a minute and practice with the following experiment and see how you feel. What is gratitude and how to return back to our natural state of gratitude is explained in the following article. After reading this, I suggest a sitting practice of gratitude meditation with the guided meditation audio link shared below. Selvans Guided Meditation – Opening the flow of Gratitude:

For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.https://awarenessjourney.org/