Positivity: New Directions

You can always choose a new direction.

Whether metaphorically or literally, you always have options and choices as to the directions you choose to take.

If life is not where you want it to be, if you are unhappy and feeling stuck – you can examine why you are feeling negative, and you can determine new directions to find positivity.

Metaphorically, this might mean a shift in attitude. Are you seeing things in a positive or a negative light? It could mean you need to check your focus, you might need to examine if outside influences are dominating your emotions. You might be in relationships that are proving to be unhealthy.

Metaphoric direction is always going to be internal. No one but you has any control over this, but ultimately you have the ability to make necessary change. The great thing about this is that you can always find a way, always find options to make change and discover positivity.

Literally, this might mean a physical change. This can take all kinds of forms, from something as subtle as your posture to your location. Sitting up straight, changing your stride and carrying yourself in a confident manner will change your direction from negative to positive. Or you might be in a relationship or a job that are causing you more distress than happiness, and like a car on a dead end road, you can change your direction.

Literal direction might be external, but it begins internally. You nearly always only choose a physical direction for your life based on your thoughts and feelings. You may from time to time cede control over this to another, but ultimately you have the ability to make necessary directional changes.

What has this got to do with positivity? When you come to understand that the direction in which you take your life, whether the emotional, intellectual or physical, is wholly yours to control – the possibilities are endless. Life often seems to be this closed loop, finite and sometimes undesirable choices. But it’s not. Life is full of endless possibilities – we’ve simply become easily disempowered, and we have been told by too many outside influences ‘no’ and ‘can’t’ and ‘impossible’ and ‘are you mad?’ too frequently.

Too many people in our society today see failure and inability and limitation as the way life is. This is only the truth if we let it be. We can change the direction of our life, and we can choose to see the world as a place of possibility instead of impossibility, hope instead of fear, love instead of hate. Positivity serves us far better than negativity – positivity builds while negativity destroys. Even when you destroy things, isn’t it usually so that you can rebuild new and better? That is why positivity is such a wondrous concept.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that we can change the direction of our life, both in the metaphorical and the literal, we can strive to find new and unique directions to empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the fifty-fifth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.