Open the Door to Your Future...

Positive Thinking

"One Door Opens"

Trevor Sylvester. Yoga Magazine, Issue 72.

Broaden the perspective of past events by focusing on their positive consequences, and linking them into your life.

1. Write down 3-5 of the most negative things that have happened to you: breakups, redundancies, financial blunders, illness, etc.
2. With each one, ask the following questions: as that particular door shut on your future, what other doors did it open? How did that negative event lead to good things in your life afterwards; especially things you wouldn't have experienced without it?

Spend some time considering your answers; you might begin to see how each new door opening in some way led to the next one; that our lives are made up of a series of disasters, or a series of opportunities and we can choose which perspective to take.