Making it work
A-mode
I want to invent another term: Appreciation-mode, or A-mode. Once you trained your thinking into positive, you strengthened you positive connections in your network, there is something like assuredness or stability that is hard to explain. It feels like trust and farsightedness. When it occured to me the first times, it felt like being in a harbour (in the sea) and there are walls. So when you are in the water you can´t see the land. But when your positivity is there, it lifts you like a wave and suddenly you can see the land and you can see very far. When positivity gets more and more frequently, you enhance the times where you can actually see. That was a period of about several month where I could “see” how things are, more and more often. Then you get to the stage where your water level is high enough to see the land all the time: In that state the main emotion you got is appreciation. Wherever you look at you´ll always find something to appreciate. It is a great feeling. I call this A-mode – the appreciation-mode .
I think there is quite a big difference between “normal” thinking and a-mode thinking. A-mode thinking is hardly any effort. It feels very intuitive and is full of trust and positive expectation. In a-mode I always react with refusal when somebody displays a negative expectation. I always think “Nah. I don´t think that is true”, just because of my belly-feeling. In a-mode there is no rumination at all, most of the times it feels as if I am not thinking at all. Thoughts that come up are mainly appreciation. It is rather like relaxation of the mind combined with intuitive reactions resulting right from the calmness you feel inside. That kind of thinking is very fruitful, for what comes to you mind intuitively is ALWAYS right. I can´t really prove that. Maybe others did already, but intuitive thinking is so full of trust and the feeling of rightness, that you don´t get any feelings of doubt or lack of motivation. Something that comes right out of intuition feels so good that you definitely WANT to do it. It is awesome.