Positive Speaking

A spiritual aspirant went to a Zen monastery that practiced silence. He was told by the Zen master that every ten years he was only allowed to say two words. The spiritual seeker decided he would give this Zen philosophy a shot and signed up. Ten years later the Zen master asked him what his two word reflections were and he said 'bed hard'! Another ten years went by and as the Zen master approached him he shouted 'Food sucks!' Ten more years went by and the spiritual aspirant ran to the Zen master and said 'I quit!'. The Zen master looked at him, smiled and responded 'I am not surprised. All you ever do is complaining.'

The Power of Positive Thinking is hard to master, yet, I hope you will agree with me that you have the power to only say positive things. Why don't you start with that? I made this change a couple of years ago and found it actually pretty straight-forward. Only say nice things and when you don't have nice things to say, you monitor very carefully what you say.  You will find that you can always rephrase everything and put it in a more positive light.This way you will learn that hardly anything is ever black and white, often it is your interpretation that defines the result. Your version of the story makes it so. If you have so much power, why not to make the script a positive one. I am not asking you to negate reality, I am asking you to make reality a positive experience for all parties involved.