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Old 03-02-2007, 12:25 AM
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Question What is the power/strenght of "A Positive Thought?"

Which is right:
  1. It takes 10 positive thoughts to cancel one negative thought.
  2. A positive thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative thought.

If you have other stats or information I would really appreciate it. I was trying to make a point and got stuck on point. Now I know that this is not factual but I hear self-help gurus talk about the difference between a positive and negative thought all the time, I am just not sure what the actual numbers are or which one is stronger.

Are positive thoughts more powerful that negative thoughts? I feel a correlation between the number of muscles it takes to smile and the number it takes to frown (once again the actual numbers do not come to mind.) But I know it takes a lot less muscles to smile than it is to frown. – Still doesn’t help me much with making my point, any help will be much appreciated.

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I'll pick #3

3. All thoughts are neutral. Polarity (positive/negative) is a construct of the mind. Our mind adds the polarity to the thoughts. Thoughts being neutral, don't cancel each other out.
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Dharma, good one it took me a minute to dissect your point. All thoughts being neutral and we as individuals polarize them, but do they then still remain neutral doesn’t one then become stronger than the other in the process of manifesting. Or maybe using the theory of neutrality, you have just as good a chance of manifesting a negative thought as you do a positive one it all depends of what you think of.

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