很多人將會問：“我怎樣才能控制我的每一則思想？”

答案就是：你不要試圖，也不必要去證實你的種種思想。你所要做的就是分清事情的好壞，抑制消極保持積極。無論什么時候只要你感覺不對，立即停止它。比方說，如果你咒罵某事，那么事情很可能往你不希望的那個方向發展，這樣你的怨言就會越來越多。只要你認識到咒罵對你沒有好處，那么盡力讓它停止。

This sounds fatalist isn’t it? Basicly, it’s a frame of mind. The more you do something, the more it’s likely to happen once more. It’s almost a Murphy law:

The things you want to avoid at all cost will occur more and more — Me這聽起來是不是有點宿命論？基本上是這種思維模式，你做某件事越多，它越可能再次出現。這幾乎是墨菲定律：你不惜一切代價想要躲避的事物會不停地發生。

Think about it for a second: if you were to spend each and every minutes looking at your face for signs of acne, would you start creating pictures of you in your mind with acne? As soon as you’d feel a small bump on your face you’d start to freak out? You see, all this list of events actually contribute to it happening. That’s why you should not focus or even think about what you do not want. It’s actually making you lose your time as it only reinforce what you do not want. Instead, find a way to make it positive. “I want to have a soft skin” would be a better frame of mind. This way, you’ll work on what will help you instead of what you don’t want to occur.

稍微想想，假如你花很多時間緊盯著自己的臉找粉刺，你的腦海里是否已經產生自己滿臉粉刺的圖像？只要你感覺臉上有小包點，你就要開始抓狂了。你應該知道，所有的這些想像有助力于事實的發生。這就是為什么不要沉迷于或反復思慮你不想要的事物的原因。事實上，這是浪費你的時間因為這種想象只會強化你所不想要的東西。相反，尋找一條積極的途徑。“我想要柔軟的肌膚”將會是一種更好的思維模式，這樣，將對你有利而不是有害。

Yet again, it’s a bit hard to really think it’s going to work, but I can assure you that if you follow the right mindset, you won’t have any problem. You see, all this article is actually talking about the power of your brain. It is him who tells you how you should be feeling about EVERYthing. Why would you consider acne to be bad? Maybe you should know that acne is a good sign of health and that your hormones are working great! No, instead you tell to yourself “My skin is messed up, I’ll never recover from it”. It will never help you to tell yourself you’re not doing the things the way you should do them. DO what you want, not what you don’t want.

然而，積極的思考未必會帶來正面的結果，但是我保證，你也不會有什么負面的麻煩。你看，這篇文章是在討論大腦的力量，它能告訴你應該如何感知事物。為什么你認為痤瘡好不了，或許你應該認識到它正提示你的身體健康，你的荷爾蒙正有效發揮作用。相反，你卻暗示自己：“我的皮膚糟糕透了，恐怕再也難以恢復”。不停地告訴自己事情沒有往好的方向發展，對解決麻煩沒有任何益處。想你所要的，而不是你不想要的。

It is you who decide what is good and what is not. If it’s not good, then stop giving it priority in your life, it’ll just make it worst. If it’s positive then make sure to emphasize it and give it more power so it grows even more.

If someone tells you if a glass is filled to the half with water, is it half-empty or half-full? — tell him it’s half-ful

只有你才能定義事情的好與壞。假如不好，那么不要讓它主導你的生活，不然，事情將會更糟。假如它對你起積極作用，那么請強調它并給予更強大的力量，從而它會更好。

假如有人告訴你一個瓶子里裝半瓶水，那么你是說：它是半滿還是半空？請告訴他：它是半滿的！

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（實習編輯：劉偉）