If you are going through a stressful time in your life, it is really easy to let your mind wander… and start onto a negative track of thoughts about possible future outcomes. Often times those negative thoughts get worse and worse with each thought creating a downward spiral of worsening emotions. Some might say, "I am a realist and those are potential outcomes." The problem with that belief system (and a belief is only a thought you keep thinking - Abraham Hicks) is that these negative thoughts/potential outcomes are not truths. They haven't happened and all you are doing is dress rehearsing tragedy. If the mind dress rehearses tragedy over and over, tragedy is what will occur. Even worse… this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, which continues the spiral in your head, and leads you down a dark path.
However, the truth is, when you look at any bad situation you can find really positive events that have actually happened along the way. When you look at your story you will realize there are all sort of events that could have been worse and things you didn't expect to happen that significantly helped your situation. Invisible lines were being crossed, and unbeknownst to you, shifts were happening in your favor. These silver linings are true events that will shape the outcome, events you didn’t even see coming. These "truths" happened in reality… unlike the negative spiral of thoughts you were running through your mind. The beautiful thing about these truths is they can build upon each other to become a positive upward spiral that continues to grow and better your situation.
Every time your mind starts to spiral into negative thoughts about the future, I encourage you to change tracks and focus on what I call the Spiral of Divine Truth. Just like an upward spiral, you will notice things started with a small truth, which led to a larger truth, which led to an even bigger truth, which will ultimately lead you to the desired outcome.
Realists might call this focusing on the positive instead of the negative. Actually, what you are doing is focusing on positive events that actually happened (truths) instead of negative potential outcomes that haven't happened and will never happen if you shift your mental track to the Spiral of Divine Truth. So, for the realist out there, this is the most real thing you can focus your mental energy on.
