Negative thinking is taught. You were taught to think negatively by parents, society, the media, and so on. And so you became negative. Your outlook became negative because you reinforced the negative views by repeating them, over and over, like multiplication tables or irregular Spanish verbs, until they ran along deep grooves in your mind. Your mind is constructed in accordance with this principle: 'if I thought it, it is true.' That is testament to your innate power. That is why you have such confidence in your negative outlook. The appearance of truth correlates but little to truth, however. Let's try an experiment for a year. Granted: you cannot choose whether negative thoughts come into your mind or how long you think them before you realise you've once more engaged in the well-worn pattern, but once you do realise, you have a choice, and the choice is this: do I want peace above all else or do I want to be right? If you want peace above all else, you replace the negative thought with a loving thought. 'I am love; I am born of love; everyone is born of love; all else is illusion' or 'I am safe; no one can harm me; I can harm no one; there is no barrier to love.' You won't believe it. That does not matter. The ship will turn, because you now have truth on your side: the truth that love is the answer and that love is all that exists. The truth is the force that will support your efforts. If you are negative yet conflicted, it is because the truth that love is the answer and that love is all that exists resides still within you. It is the final proof that, whatever your arguments to the contrary, truth alone is true. Start now: halt and replace every train of negative thought with love.
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