Be Positive!

All of us have heard this phrase “Be positive” from childhood. Some take the meaning “ to be optimistic” for it. But it has more meaning to it.
For example, have you noticed what we repeat to ourselves in mind when we suffer from a headache? “I want to get rid of this headache” and if we give more attention to the mind, we will realize that our mind is constantly repeating it. Without our knowledge we are constantly remembering headache. The more we repeat the word “headache” in mind, the more power we are supplying to that word. So in this case, we intended a positive outcome, but verbalized it negative.

Here, “to be positive” in the true sense is to be positive even inside your mind. Tell yourself “I should become healthy” and allow mind to repeat that. When we are repeating ‘I should become healthy’, again and again we will be remembering our health or well being and therefore the idea of health will be given tremendous power. Allowing only positivism into mind is the short cut to emotional and physical health.

Some Q&A with Nithyananda:

Question: Master, I sometimes find it difficult to sleep. If I repeat at night, ‘I have to sleep’, would this be considered as a positive engram or a negative engram?

Answer: I would actually recommend simply repeating, ‘I’ll sleep’. Furthermore, these words will have one thousand times more power and effectiveness if you consciously repeat them with your awareness, which will filter into your unconsciousness. Always be careful and be aware. Avoid allowing a single negative word into your unconsciousness.

Question: Master, I believe that at times people might be afraid to say something positive because they might not get it in the time that they are expecting it, and they are afraid.

Answer: With that fear, they are only repeating negative words and it will only result in negativity. Whether we actually receive what we are asking for or not is secondary. Be aware, that by repeating the negativity, we are not going to get the positive result; however, we will simply create more trouble for ourselves.

Negativity is not the substitute for when we don’t receive the positive things. At least with positive engrams, we have a hope. The hope itself will give us enough energy to move on our path. It will pull our life. However, with negativity only the hope itself is over. There is no way of moving. We will simply be stuck. We will be in tamas (inertia). You would rather be in rajas (active).