The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Positivity matters because how you are feeling will make or break your day. Some days it’s really hard to see how this can be done. When you are working on a problem with few or undesirable solutions or when you give too much focus to the news media and see a dark and dismal world it is difficult at best to find and feel positivity. Sometimes it just feels like it will take too much work, too much effort, and
Today is not yesterday. Today is a new beginning. Today is unique, and there will be no other day like today. You have an opportunity to do something new, something different. You have a new day with which to explore the world, to make time for yourself, for friends and family, to create something different. Yesterday is the past. It happened, it is done. It may have been a fantastic day, it may have been an awful day, but it
Appreciation is an important aspect of gratitude. Yes, appreciation can be another word for gratitude, but it can also be a separate aspect of gratitude. While one can be grateful for things, having appreciation for them and being appreciated are amazing builders of positivity. What’s the difference? Appreciation is more specific than just gratitude. You can give and receive both, but there is a more focused understanding of appreciation. Feeling grateful is about expressing happiness with a person, a thing,
Expectation is a powerful means for positivity. If consciousness creates reality, than it goes to follow that expectation will create positivity or negativity, depending on what outcome you think will occur. A lot of people find the idea of “the power of positive thinking” to be hokey. Pie-in-the-sky absurdity. And if all you do is think positive, but you don’t feel it or act upon it, you cannot generate positivity. That being said, what you expect will often determine whether
Expectation is a powerful force. What exactly IS expectation, anyhow? Dictionary.com defines it thus: noun 1. the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation. 2. the act or state of looking forward or anticipating. 3. an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation. 4. something expected; a thing looked forward to. 5. Often, expectations; a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations. Looking forward, anticipating, waiting – and it is really great expectations that are what we all want to have when it comes to this action, this emotion. However, expectation can also be a crutch. It can be a blockage for the actions in the here-and-now, as often it is something ahead of us, rather than