It is not possible to think negative thoughts and be happy. Only positive thoughts influence positive emotional experiences. Whatever I am thinking is influencing my emotional feelings. I experience emotionally, the influence of whatever I am thinking.
“My mental memes influence my emotional moods”
Suppressing my emotional feelings to stop me being sad or unhappy, will never make me happy.
Happiness is an emotional experience, so suppressing an emotional experience suppresses my happiness, as well as my unhappiness. Suppressing my happiness has a direct affect on my wellbeing, which is the subject of another book. Happiness is the effect of positive thoughts, not positive thinking, so we need to understand the difference.
- A positive thought is inspired & empowered and feels good. It feels good because it is empowered and it’s emotional power is what inspires one’s self
- Positive thinking is what I am motivated to think. When I am motivated to think in a certain way, it means that my perspective is neither empowered nor inspired
Understanding the difference between being motivated and being empowered requires both a rational and an emotional logic.
- Rational logic makes sense when I know it to be right
- Emotional logic makes sense when it feels good
If I think something feels good because it feels right, I will question whether my logic is serving me. Logically, we think with thought and feel with emotions, not the other way around. Thinking with emotions and feeling with thought is neither rationally nor emotionally logical.
“The other way around to a negative polarity is a positive polarity”
Thoughts are either rational or irrational and feelings are either emotional or unemotional, not the other way round. Irrational feelings are as illogical as unemotional thinking.