Associating a Positive with a Negative, Part 2 (TMF:2444)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Peace to Live By: Associating a Positive with a Negative, Part 2 (TMF:2444) - Daniel Litton
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Well, if we are good at looking for the positive, we can then, after sympathizing with them, perhaps present something on the bright side of things. We can work to be kind, comforting, and even encouraging, again, all things that the New Testament tells us to be mindful of. We can even use our imaginations in order to associate the positive with the negative. Maybe we do this with a negative bad experience. Like, let’s say there is something in our past that tends to come to our minds from time to time. It is something that we still haven’t surrendered all the negative energy out of it. Well, what we can do is try to immediately bring to mind what became beneficial to us from going through that negative experience. That is, how did God work it out for the good? What did we learn? How is our life better now? By focusing on these positives, then the negative doesn’t seem all that negative anymore. This is something I have found to be particularly beneficial, and something that definitely increases my happiness.