Free yourself to enjoy a fulfilling & meaningful life

by John Taylor

Resources on: Positive and Focus

We all have emotional highs and lows, it's part of the human condition. For most people the highs aren't a problem, but feeling low can sometimes take a real hold on us. These are the times when we need to make a conscious effort to acknowledge our state and to take action to shake off those negative feelings. 

Now, before you say that it's easier said than done, I know how difficult it can be to focus on the positive when feeling down - I've been there. 

I discovered that writing helped me to re-frame my state of mind. I began by simply writing down everything that came to mind. I was effectively "dumping" all the internal chatter and dialogue and that somehow helped me to release those negative feelings. 

Once I had externalised my negative thoughts I then felt a need to fill the silence that I had created with something more positive. 

So, where better to find a positive spin on any situation than from an inspirational and motivational quotation? Quotations provide us with access to the thoughts and reflections of great minds. 

The American actress Helen Hayes said: "We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves... the wisdom of acceptance and the resilience to push on". 

Inspirational quotations are a distillation of the benign and healing thoughts of the world's greatest philosophers, poets and mystics together with the more pragmatic thoughts and observations of actors, humorists, novelists, world leaders and many exceptional men and women from a wide range of backgrounds and professions. 

I strongly recommend that you take some time out every day to release any negative internal thoughts and replace them with some positive and motivational quotations from the collective wisdom available to us all. 

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson... "Do the thing and you will have the power". 

(C) John Taylor April 2004

About author
John Taylor is a writer, publisher and a personal coach; he is also the Editor of Quogger.com where the past and the future are fused together in a daily inspirational and motivational weblog. http://www.quogger.com/