After losing our positive attitude, how can we come back to our positive self?
Sometimes we are positive, but along the way something happens that makes you begin to lose the positive attitude.
What is the way to come back to that positive side? What is the instrument to use to do it?
It is a good question.
Actually in this universe people are positive and negative same time.
But because the law is, one work at a time.
So that you will be positive or you will be negative.
But you cannot be, the same moment, you cannot be positive or negative.
Positive is you are thinking right. You are thinking the way it's supposed to.
You are positive about it.
If you think, if you see the things as they are, you are positive.
But if you are not thinking or seeing the things what they are, you are negative.
Most of people in this universe, they see things negatively.
Even all the teachings of Tirthankaras is seems like negative.
Tirthankara is the highest state of consciousness.
And they're numbers, few people only in the world.
But even their teachings seems like to be negative.
Like ahimsa. Ahimsa starts "A". "A" means no.
It starts from no. No himsa ((violence)).
But I think they were teaching to start with negative that if you are familiar with your negativities you have that opportunity
to dissolve that negativity. But you have to be familiar with this negativity.
If you're not familiar with violence, how can you be nonviolent?
You are, you have to be familiar with violence. You want to be compassionate.
Then you have to see the opposite side of the compassionate.
Opposite side of the compassion is anger. If you don't go through your anger, negative side, you never will learn compassion.
A baby which is born, newborn baby, doesn't know about compassion.
Even he will learn later on word compassion. Still will not know it because baby doesn't go through yet
through the negative side of the compassion.
So the negative side is very easy to understand.
Positive side is very difficult to understand.
If I will show you a glass of water which is made of glass...
is transparent, half glass of water. If I will ask people, then most of people they will say that it is half empty.
Very few people will say it is half full.
So because our way of thinking is negative, it is not a bad thing.
It is good in a way that we are getting familiar with our negativities.
So the more familiar we will get it with the negative side, so automatically we are going towards positive.
And once the positivity gets stronger in your mind, nothing and no one can take it away from you.
You will be always positive. You will see always positive.
Sometimes negativity is too much so it doesn't work in the society.
If somebody get accident in the hospital now, relative, friends, family visit. They see his leg is broken.
They just talk about "Oh, very bad happen. Look you lost your leg." So he lost already, the person lost the leg. Now he hears again and again negative things.
So, suffers more. So sometimes people needs to know how to be positive in that situation at least.
To confirm, to confirmed him more positively that yes you lost the leg, but very lucky. You have another leg still.
We will do something for you. With artificial leg you will still going to walk, you will still going to run. Don't worry about it.
So the person feels already good. So positivity brings always goodness.
Negativity, if very negative person, it can bring very disaster actually if always negative.
But if it is for a while, that is, if you are just learning off it, that is different.
If you are not learning, just have negativities, be negative all the time - that doesn't teach you anything.
For learning, negativity is good. To have it is very bad.
So it is better to watch your negativity.
And be witness always. "That is not me. Why I am thinking that?"
"This is not me. Why I am thinking that." Send the message to yourself constantly and negativity will disappear.
Think positive; that I gave example. Because positivity will make you higher.
Will make you happy. Just think about you want happiness, you don't want unhappiness.
You want something good to happen to you. So try to just change it.
Like, diverted attention. Baby's crying will divert his attention. Same way as soon as you see your negativities are going on, so you just divert the attention.
Something good, something positive, something think higher. Or if you cannot think, just think what my teacher said today.
What my guru said today. Or what Jesus said. Or what Mahavira said. Think about it.
So, you can switch from negative to positive very easily by just being aware and watchful.