Think Positively

Think Positively to Become Hot
Is your glass half full or is it half empty? Do you let the little things in life get to you or do you let them pass by, like water off a duck's back? Do you look on the bright side of life, or just see doom and gloom upon the horizon? Do you feel like a cat upon a hot tin roof or are you so laid back you are almost horizontal?

There are so many descriptive phrases which have been used over the years which describe different personality traits, be they negative or positive. What is amazing is that we actually have the same framework from which all these different patterns spring. We have the same basic structure of cells and neurons and whatever else there is inside our brains, and yet we clearly all have a unique pattern of wiring within this framework. We are born with certain temperamental characteristics and these are adapted as a result of experience.

Upon birth we are not quite a "blank canvass". It is as if the canvass has been pre-chosen; its size and texture has already been provided for; but then choices are presented to us. A would-be painter who only has access to water colors or crayons invariably becomes an expert in this type of painting. Another child may only be presented with oils. Each child could have learned the other's expertise, had they been given the opportunity.

Thus the "choices" presented to us may not seem like choices at all. But if you take the view point that you have come into this life to learn and to experience something new and different then you may feel that you did in fact make that choice; perhaps you chose this environment as the best place in which you could learn and grow. Whatever your wider beliefs are about your present life, you like the painter can swap from oils to water color, or vice versa, as the opportunity arises and as you choose to grow and develop. No matter what you have learned, you can learn something new and different, so long as you are willing to do so.

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