Are you tired of seeing everything with a negative point of view?

Would you like to press a button and be more positive?

In this article, I will make a reflection on negativity, and explain if there is a way to change your point of view toward positivity.

We often hear that we should naturally create optimism from within, and that we should see everything from a positive point of view. The people who say this imagine that it can be done so easily as pressing a button.

When you are negative or “realistically oriented” you may see that as impossible, because you only see everything with negative eyes without any sign of improvement anytime soon.

So, with the dark lenses that you may see your life, the message of silly optimism sounds like a fake commercial filled with propaganda, with no instructions on how to press that positivity button.

But what would you say if the choice of lenses in your life could determine how you feel and predispose your energy toward positivity or negativity?

Do you think that the kind of lenses that you choose to view the events of your life can affect the quality of your daily life?

Those positive, neutral, or negative lenses. Do you think they can be shited for a better purpose?

I realized this idea while thinking and reflecting on the concept of “pressing a button and being positive”. So I thought that if the negative lenses work, why shouldn't the positives ones?

To make this concept clear, I leave some questions in the air to illustrate how the negative lenses may affect you:

• Is your mood automatically shifted toward negativity the moment you start remembering painful situations in your life?

• In those moments, do you feel your dark side growing and predisposing your mood in a negative way?

• Have you thought that doing the opposite could generate the opposite effect and turn yourself into a positive mood?

So, if you know that the negative lenses work as intended, who says that the positive lenses can´t work in the same way?

You may doubt that the positive lenses work or even exist because:

• You didn´t have a positive environment at home or in school in your childhood.

• You don´t have positive people around you.

• You are used to seeing the negative side of things.

• Your ego focuses mostly on negative things.

• The mainstream media and news are negatively oriented.

So, if your ego, family, friends, coworkers, society, and media are mostly negatively oriented, it's almost impossible to generate positive thoughts from within without the help of a positive environment around you.

If swimming in the negativity pool makes you feel worse, why shouldn´t the opposite work?

With logical reasoning and perseverance on the positive side of things, you can start training your rusty positivity muscles and start seeing things from a new perspective, generating inner peace and improving the quality of your daily life.

So, the idea that can help you shift from negativity to positivity is understanding that if the negative lenses work perfectly, the positive ones should too.

You just need to speak and observe the positive people around you, and keep an open mind to change your perspective of how you see the things that happen to you.

You already know how the negative lenses work. 

What else do you have to lose if you reflect and change your point of view on what happens in your daily life?

Are you going to feel worse if you experiment a little bit?

What´s your choice? Continuing to use the old, negative way of thinking, or using the positive lenses to start building a better lifestyle?

If you see inner peace as something that must come from the external environment and people perfectly aligned with your needs, you may find yourself sitting in a desert waiting for rain, good luck with that. Being passive and reactive won't help you achieve what you really want in life.

So, what you can do to improve your daily life is to know yourself better, increase your awareness, and explore new ways to see the world around you.

It's up to you whether you want to keep trying to change the external environment or people to fit your needs, or change the lenses you use to see the things that happen to you, with a more positive point of view. 

Just try to grow in self-knowledge, awareness, and identifying those things that increase and reduce your inner peace, for your own good.

In the end, you are the last line of defense in charge of your mindfulness. 

If you are not willing to learn more about yourself and open to test and change some things for the better, nobody will.