A reader recently asked: “How do you get positive emotions to appear?”
Here are some of the things I do when I want to go from negativity to positivity. I:
Smile (even when I don’t feel like it.)
Watch a comedy with a happy ending to help put laughter back into my life.
Read blogs of people whose posts warm my heart.
Count my blessings.
Spend time with people I love.
Read an inspiring or uplifting book.
Go out in nature and sit and take it all in.
Stop and take time to breathe deeply and think of things that are going right in my life and world.
Take a moment to think of all of the miraculous things that are going on in my body every microsecond.
Read inspiring quotes and affirmations.
Call a friend.
Perform a kindness.
Unclutter a part of my life such as clean off my desk.
Russ
Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 
I so agree, Russ. When I read your list, many of the suggestions are versions of gratitude, which I feel is the best place from which to raise one’s vibration. Does it for me every time. Thanks for this great post and reminder. Hugs, Cathy
Thank you for your comment, Cathy. Although I knew that some were, I hadn’t noticed that many of the suggestions are expressions of gratitude. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. It makes sense to me. I just hadn’t framed it in my mind in that way before.
Russ
I’d feel quite positive if you would clean off my desk, too Russ!
Your comment had me bursting out loud with laughter! Thank you, Elyse!
Russ
You didn’t say that you’d clean it, though. Did you?
You don’t miss much, do you Elyse? ;-D!
Russ
Inspiring post, Russ! Will remember counting the blessings.
Thank you. I believe that most people could come up with a list of hundreds of blessings if they took the time to think about them.
Some of my greatest blessings sure didn’t feel like blessings at the time they happened. For example, having my fiance’ leave me for another man was devastating at the time, but about a year later my Beloved came into my life–and has made it better ever since. Had I been married to my original fiance’ I’d have missed the love of my life.
I encourage people to take another, closer look at events and experiences that they’ve carried in their minds as some of their biggest or worst “disasters”, “failures”, and “heart-breaks”.
I believe that when people do this they are likely to find that some of their greatest blessings and gifts ultimately came from such painful experiences.
Sometimes it just takes awhile and an open mind to find out what good came from them.
In such awareness, gratitude grows.
Russ
Lovely reminders! Thanks Russ!
Thanks Russ for this wonderful reply!
It was my pleasure Andrea and greyz14!
Russ
great post 🙂
Thank you, Judy!
Russ