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		<title>By: Ana Karina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ana Karina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 07:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Positive thoughts always work, but one has to first accept the &quot;now&quot;. So, accept our negative thoughts and choose to have a positive thought. Only when you accept that, when you surrender to &quot;it is what it is&quot;, then you can free yourself to think something else. You have to relax into that. It always work with me. Also, you can&#039;t fake a positive thought, you really have to feel it and identify with it. You only identify with it when you release the negative one, when you let it go of whatever you were grasping to. When you do that, when one accepts that one is fine with whatever happens, then that&#039;s when the &quot;magic&quot; works. Because the energy completely changes around and inside you. It works every time!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Positive thoughts always work, but one has to first accept the &#8220;now&#8221;. So, accept our negative thoughts and choose to have a positive thought. Only when you accept that, when you surrender to &#8220;it is what it is&#8221;, then you can free yourself to think something else. You have to relax into that. It always work with me. Also, you can&#8217;t fake a positive thought, you really have to feel it and identify with it. You only identify with it when you release the negative one, when you let it go of whatever you were grasping to. When you do that, when one accepts that one is fine with whatever happens, then that&#8217;s when the &#8220;magic&#8221; works. Because the energy completely changes around and inside you. It works every time!</p>
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		<title>By: Jalaj</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/how-to-break-a-negative-thought-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-174</link>
		<dc:creator>Jalaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, Sorry if I seem out of topic... can you please guide via your smart friends whether my problem is a small one or otherwise... I too have monitor problem that made me frustrated..

1) The monitor suddenly stopped showing red color (Red missed from RGB) so even spiderman-2 on it would show Black spidey. It sometimes rectifies by itself for a an hour or so and again darkens...

2) By seeing above pattern I though it to be trivial problem and opened up the monitor to rectify myself but of no use...

so I got frustrated twice once for monitor going bad then for getting myself into serviceing it. Interestingly now I think better buy a notebook than getting it corrected.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, Sorry if I seem out of topic&#8230; can you please guide via your smart friends whether my problem is a small one or otherwise&#8230; I too have monitor problem that made me frustrated..</p>
<p>1) The monitor suddenly stopped showing red color (Red missed from RGB) so even spiderman-2 on it would show Black spidey. It sometimes rectifies by itself for a an hour or so and again darkens&#8230;</p>
<p>2) By seeing above pattern I though it to be trivial problem and opened up the monitor to rectify myself but of no use&#8230;</p>
<p>so I got frustrated twice once for monitor going bad then for getting myself into serviceing it. Interestingly now I think better buy a notebook than getting it corrected.</p>
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		<title>By: High Vibes - How I Get My Vibe Up</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/how-to-break-a-negative-thought-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-173</link>
		<dc:creator>High Vibes - How I Get My Vibe Up</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 1. Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home with You Don&#8217;t Have to Be a Jerk to Enjoy a Big Ego. 2. Lyman Reed from Creating a Better Life with Here&#8217;s What&#8217;s Working. 3. Karen Lynch at Live the Power with Happy Strategies. 4. Steve Olson at Steve-Olson.com with How to Break a Negative Thought Pattern. 5. Terry Starbucker at Ramblings From a Glass Half Full with Weddings and Butterflies. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 1. Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home with You Don&#8217;t Have to Be a Jerk to Enjoy a Big Ego. 2. Lyman Reed from Creating a Better Life with Here&#8217;s What&#8217;s Working. 3. Karen Lynch at Live the Power with Happy Strategies. 4. Steve Olson at Steve-Olson.com with How to Break a Negative Thought Pattern. 5. Terry Starbucker at Ramblings From a Glass Half Full with Weddings and Butterflies. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: John Hill</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Hill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think once you can deal with the emotions that become so entwined with an old negative thought pattern we can get on with the job or replacing it with something more positive and constructive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think once you can deal with the emotions that become so entwined with an old negative thought pattern we can get on with the job or replacing it with something more positive and constructive.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please don&#039;t take this negatively...you shouldn&#039;t, given the topic of this post:

I think that if I am trying to put a positive &quot;spin&quot; on something, I am denying myself the truth.  I may feel better, but I *tricked* myself into feeling better by lying to myself.  The lie temporarily masked the truth and also the problem itself.  Also, what if positive thinking does not result in a solution; there are elements of life that one cannot change?

I.e. let&#039;s say I think that I&#039;m pinned down at work and that I&#039;ll never get promoted because my boss doesn&#039;t like me.  Let&#039;s say he doesn&#039;t like me because I mumble, and I&#039;ve mumbled all of my life, or he thinks that I&#039;m a loser, or whatever.  It is something that I think I cannot, do not want to, and should not change.

If I tell myself that everything&#039;s OK, that my boss does like me isn&#039;t going to change the truth, and it&#039;s not going to get me promoted.  And I went to 50 interviews in the past few months and nothing&#039;s panned out, even though I tried to think happy thoughts all of the time.

My point is that from experience, and logically I don&#039;t understand why it must be true, that happy thoughts automatically lead to solutions, or automatically cause a better life (than negative thoughts).

Sometimes, no matter how optimistic you get, that is just not going to magically cause you to think of solutions and sometimes your monitor is going to remain broken.  And it might also obscure what you rightly believe to be true, or at least more true than more optimistic thoughts.

There is definitely some flawed reasoning in this but hopefully I&#039;ve gotten something across.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please don&#8217;t take this negatively&#8230;you shouldn&#8217;t, given the topic of this post:</p>
<p>I think that if I am trying to put a positive &#8220;spin&#8221; on something, I am denying myself the truth.  I may feel better, but I *tricked* myself into feeling better by lying to myself.  The lie temporarily masked the truth and also the problem itself.  Also, what if positive thinking does not result in a solution; there are elements of life that one cannot change?</p>
<p>I.e. let&#8217;s say I think that I&#8217;m pinned down at work and that I&#8217;ll never get promoted because my boss doesn&#8217;t like me.  Let&#8217;s say he doesn&#8217;t like me because I mumble, and I&#8217;ve mumbled all of my life, or he thinks that I&#8217;m a loser, or whatever.  It is something that I think I cannot, do not want to, and should not change.</p>
<p>If I tell myself that everything&#8217;s OK, that my boss does like me isn&#8217;t going to change the truth, and it&#8217;s not going to get me promoted.  And I went to 50 interviews in the past few months and nothing&#8217;s panned out, even though I tried to think happy thoughts all of the time.</p>
<p>My point is that from experience, and logically I don&#8217;t understand why it must be true, that happy thoughts automatically lead to solutions, or automatically cause a better life (than negative thoughts).</p>
<p>Sometimes, no matter how optimistic you get, that is just not going to magically cause you to think of solutions and sometimes your monitor is going to remain broken.  And it might also obscure what you rightly believe to be true, or at least more true than more optimistic thoughts.</p>
<p>There is definitely some flawed reasoning in this but hopefully I&#8217;ve gotten something across.</p>
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		<title>By: highvibeit.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>highvibeit.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;How to Break a Negative Thought Pattern &#124; steve-olson.com...&lt;/strong&gt;

Ever have something happen that starts pulling you down. Steve talks about how he stops it from happening....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>How to Break a Negative Thought Pattern | steve-olson.com&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Ever have something happen that starts pulling you down. Steve talks about how he stops it from happening&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/how-to-break-a-negative-thought-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-169</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 23:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It takes one negative person to turn a whole group of positive people negative, but a group of positive people cant turn 1 negative person positive.  See what I realized is it&#039;s easier to be negative, but being positive takes work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It takes one negative person to turn a whole group of positive people negative, but a group of positive people cant turn 1 negative person positive.  See what I realized is it&#8217;s easier to be negative, but being positive takes work.</p>
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		<title>By: Secret of Law of Attraction</title>
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		<dc:creator>Secret of Law of Attraction</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 06:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, by seeing the same thing at a different angle create a different experience.

The Law of Attraction says &quot;You are the only one who creates your reality&quot;.

So, you can change your emotion immediately by thinking of something
joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

Negative thought sucks away our energy while positive one multiply it many fold.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, by seeing the same thing at a different angle create a different experience.</p>
<p>The Law of Attraction says &#8220;You are the only one who creates your reality&#8221;.</p>
<p>So, you can change your emotion immediately by thinking of something<br />
joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.</p>
<p>Negative thought sucks away our energy while positive one multiply it many fold.</p>
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		<title>By: mutlu</title>
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		<dc:creator>mutlu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I totally agree with Todd Lloyd&#039;s comment. I do that flipping too when the opposite of something that is bothering me would bother me too. The weather is a great example. I stopped nagging about heat or cold. Because when it&#039;s too cold outside, I say to myself if it was summer, it would be too hot and I would start nagging about it too.  So I stopped. When you change your point of view the world around you changes accordingly. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree with Todd Lloyd&#8217;s comment. I do that flipping too when the opposite of something that is bothering me would bother me too. The weather is a great example. I stopped nagging about heat or cold. Because when it&#8217;s too cold outside, I say to myself if it was summer, it would be too hot and I would start nagging about it too.  So I stopped. When you change your point of view the world around you changes accordingly. <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Pril</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pril</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>just had to stop back on by I saved this page and I still think it is a great post!
Thanks again for sharing!
keep an eye for the power point presentation or text called
two choices! it goes hand and hand with this!
you have 2 choices 1 to have a good day 2 to have a bad day...
the choice is only your!!!
I&#039;m off to enjoy the rest of my good day! :)
hope yours is good too!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>just had to stop back on by I saved this page and I still think it is a great post!<br />
Thanks again for sharing!<br />
keep an eye for the power point presentation or text called<br />
two choices! it goes hand and hand with this!<br />
you have 2 choices 1 to have a good day 2 to have a bad day&#8230;<br />
the choice is only your!!!<br />
I&#8217;m off to enjoy the rest of my good day! <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
hope yours is good too!</p>
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