Positive Habits of Thinking and Devotion
Life has positive and negative aspects, and a person must choose the appropriate way of thinking. This is because the results that a person will obtain are only the product of their current thinking and behavior.
Writer Ziyad Rayes says in the book My Experience for a Better Life: “There are many types of important habits for a person. Some of them are useful for their health, strength, and appearance, and some of them are useful for their future, work, relations with others, family, and children, or with the surrounding community in which they live.
These habits are perpetuated through personal behavior and internal physiological harmony of the same person, as an example of that habits (getting up early – exercising – eating in moderation – avoiding fast foods and drinks, etc.).
There are also habits related to the way of thinking, and they are perpetuated through practices in which the practical application coincides with the way of thinking and the values in which a person believes, such as: (altruism, sacrifice, sincerity, and honesty), and they are more entrenched in the soul with the evocation of the beliefs that a person carries in the heavenly message that they believe in.
However, there is another dimension that we badly need, and it is perhaps the most difficult, and it requires a great effort, which is positive thinking by reprogramming the mind in the way it judges and reacts to the events it receives in its daily life, and what it hears and reads.
That is because a person’s happiness lies through their ability to manage their reactions to events in a way that benefits them personally, as well as the general benefit of those around them.
The most important positive habits that should be devoted
- Reconciliation with oneself every evening so that one doesn't have any hatred or malice against anyone. Forgiveness gives happiness and comfort to the soul that is not appreciated.
- Avoid making the abuser an enemy, but make them part of the segment of society that we need to reform.
- Invoke the idea of conflicting interests between people, not hostility, for the purpose of enmity, while reducing the use of conspiracy theory in order not to be discouraged from affirmative action.
- Weighting the possibility of wrong diligence in the actions of others and lack of experience, instead of intentionally harming or adopting the hypothesis of fraud.
- Thinking well of the wrong actions of others, considering them as unintentional ignorance, or as a result of their incomplete information.
- Looking at people as human beings who have positives as well as negatives, and stay away from idealism. Successful dealing with them must take this into account, and avoid looking at them only through shortcomings and negatives.
- Appreciating the blessings one possesses without comparing them with what others possess.
- The certainty that today's problem will be part of the past tomorrow.
- Adopting a smile as a continuous means of communication.
- Adopting good faith as a tool for a positive life, and taking the initiative to do good is the height of intelligence.
- Prosecuting the negative behavior of others out of need and pressure in general, and not out of a desire to act itself, for example: (Suspending the application of the provisions of law with regard to the penalty for theft in some cases caused by necessity and extreme need).
- Thinking and reviewing slowly when you receive each piece of information that connects you to what you like yourself towards others to previous situations so that the reaction is not in the same context and self-victory.
- Remembering that one may be involved in some mistake, and avoiding impartiality and narcissism.
- One must be mindful of the Creator's ability to achieve what they want, while submitting to the Lord with His great wisdom in His decree and destiny.
In conclusion
You are the owner of your life, and everything in it is nothing but the results of your thinking, so isn't it better to follow positive habits and dedicate them within the diaries of life to get positive results. Here, we are not calling for the rosy life, as these habits and behaviors do not negate the possibility that there are no agendas and negatives that can object human life; however, the positive way of thinking helps one overcome those negatives and obstacles.