9 Positive Thoughts That Help You Reflect With More Clarity
The reflecting with more clarity is not the forced positive reframe that bypasses the honest difficulty of the thing most specifically being reflected on from the avoiding-the-difficult position the forced reframe most commonly occupies. It is the specific, grounded, genuinely orienting positive thought that most directly clears the inner fog and makes the honest reflection most specifically available from the clearer, more grounded, more openly-attending position the right positive thought most specifically produces from the inside of the reflecting that was most specifically requiring the clarity the positive thought most directly provides.
These 9 positive thoughts are chosen for the specific quality of the reflection-clarifying illumination they most directly provide. Each one is a genuine, grounded orientation toward the aspect of the reflecting that was most specifically obscured by the fog the positive thought was most directly clearing. They are not the platitudes. They are the specific, honestly offered, reflection-supporting orientations that most directly help the reflecting produce the clarity it was most essentially building toward.
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Get the Free Self-Care Starter Kit1. This moment of reflection is a gift I am giving myself toward the clearer life I am building.
“The reflecting with more clarity is the specific, grounded, genuinely orienting positive thought that most directly clears the inner fog and makes the honest reflection most specifically available from the clearer, more grounded, more openly-attending position the right positive thought most specifically produces from the inside of the reflecting that was most specifically requiring the clarity.”
This positive thought most directly addresses the most consistently available obstacle to the clear reflecting: the not-making-the-time for the reflection from the too-busy-for-the-reflecting position that the gift-framing most directly reorients from the obligation the reflection most commonly presents itself as to the gift the positive thought most specifically names it as from the clearer-life-building position. The gift-giving to the self of the reflecting moment most specifically changes the quality of the attending from the dutiful-completing to the genuinely-receiving that the gift-framing most directly produces from the reflection-as-gift orientation. The reflection is the gift. The clarity grows from the gift most specifically received from the inside of the reflection most honestly attended to from the gift-giving position this positive thought most directly enables.
2. I do not need to have all the answers from this reflection. I only need to be honest in the asking.
This positive thought most directly addresses the most consistently available pressure that the unclear reflecting was most specifically producing from the answers-required position that was most specifically preventing the honest asking from being the most specifically available and the most directly clarity-producing alternative to the answer-seeking: the reflection most specifically requires the honest asking rather than the all-answers-produced outcome that the pressure was most specifically requiring before the clarity was considered most specifically available from the reflection. The honest asking is the clarity. The answers emerge from the honest asking rather than the pressure that was most specifically replacing the honest asking with the answers-must-emerge-now demand. Ask honestly. The clarity grows from the honest asking the positive thought was most directly enabling from the answers-required pressure it was most specifically releasing.
3. Every honest reflection I complete builds the self-understanding that makes my next choice more genuinely my own.
“I do not need to have all the answers from this reflection. I only need to be honest in the asking. The honest asking is the clarity. The answers emerge from the honest asking rather than the pressure that was most specifically replacing the honest asking with the answers-must-emerge-now demand that the reflection was most specifically not requiring.”
This positive thought most directly addresses the reflecting-with-more-clarity from the forward-building position that the self-understanding-accumulating orientation most specifically provides from the completed-reflection-as-building-block that the positive thought most directly names: every honest reflection completed is the specific, cumulative, self-understanding-building block that most directly makes the next choice more genuinely the self’s own from the clearer self-understanding the completed reflection was most specifically building. The clarity grows from the accumulation of the honest reflections. The more genuinely-own choices grow from the clarity. The positive thought orients the reflection from the building-block position that was most specifically and most directly enabling the forward-building the reflection was most essentially producing from the honest completing.
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Visit Premier Print Works4. The confusion I am sitting with is the specific signal that something important is trying to become clear.
This positive thought most directly reframes the most common available obstacle to the reflecting-with-clarity from the confusion-as-failing to the confusion-as-signal that most specifically changes the relationship to the confusion from the avoiding-the-confusion position to the attending-to-the-confusion-as-the-clarity-signal position the positive thought was most directly producing from the reframe. The confusion is not the evidence that the reflecting is most specifically going wrong. It is the specific signal that something important is most specifically trying to become clear from the confusion that was most directly preceding the clarity it was most specifically producing from the honest attending to the signal rather than the avoiding of the confusion that was most specifically preventing the clarity from the attended-confusion that was most directly and most honestly becoming the clarity the positive thought was most specifically reframing it toward.
5. I can reflect on this with kindness toward myself and still see it honestly.
This positive thought most directly addresses the most consistently available false choice the unclear reflecting was most specifically producing: the either-self-compassion-or-honest-clarity choice that the reflection most commonly and most inaccurately presents as the only two available orientations from the reflecting-with-more-clarity position. The kindness toward the self and the seeing-honestly are not the opposing orientations. They are the most specifically compatible and the most directly clarity-producing combination that the positive thought most directly names as the available alternative to the either-or the unclear reflecting was most specifically substituting for the and-both the reflection-with-clarity was most essentially requiring from the kind-and-honest position this positive thought most directly enables.
6. What I am learning about myself through this reflection is worth the discomfort of the honest looking.
This positive thought most directly addresses the most consistently available deflection from the honest reflecting that the discomfort of the looking was most specifically producing from the not-worth-the-discomfort assessment that the positive thought was most directly replacing with the worth-the-discomfort orientation that the learning-about-the-self was most specifically and most genuinely providing from the honest looking that the discomfort was most consistently and most specifically producing alongside the learning. The discomfort of the honest looking and the learning from the honest looking arrive together. The positive thought most directly orients toward the learning rather than the deflecting from the discomfort, naming the learning as the worth that the discomfort was most specifically and most honestly accompanying from the honest reflecting the positive thought was most directly sustaining through the discomfort.
7. I have grown from every honest reflection I have completed. I am growing from this one too.
“What I am learning about myself through this reflection is worth the discomfort of the honest looking. The discomfort of the honest looking and the learning from it arrive together. The positive thought most directly orients toward the learning rather than the deflecting from the discomfort, naming the learning as the worth the discomfort was most specifically and most honestly accompanying.”
This positive thought most directly provides the evidence-based orienting that the reflecting-with-more-clarity most specifically requires from the accumulated past reflections that the positive thought was most directly accessing as the most specifically available evidence of the growing-from-the-reflection that the current reflection was most directly producing from the same honest completing the past reflections had most specifically produced the growing from. The growing from the past honest reflections is the most directly available evidence that the current reflection is most specifically growing from the same completed-honest-reflection pattern. The clarity grows from the evidence-based trust that the positive thought most directly provides from the accumulated past growing the completing was most specifically producing.
8. I am allowed to sit with what I discover here before I decide what to do with it.
This positive thought most directly addresses the action-pressure that was most specifically preventing the reflecting from producing the clarity it was most essentially building toward from the what-do-I-do-with-this pressure that was most specifically converting the discovering-in-reflection into the immediately-actionable-finding before the sitting-with-the-discovering had most specifically produced the clarity the action most genuinely required from the reflection that the sitting-with was most directly enabling before the acting-from was most specifically available from the clarity the sitting was most directly producing. Sit with what the reflection discovers. The clarity grows from the sitting. The action grows from the clarity. The positive thought was most directly protecting the sitting from the action-pressure that was most specifically preventing the clarity the sitting was most essentially producing before the acting was most specifically available from it.
9. The more honestly I reflect, the more genuinely free I become from the patterns I was not seeing clearly.
This positive thought closes the list with the one that most directly names the most specifically available long-term gift of the reflecting-with-more-clarity from the honest-reflection-to-freedom relationship that the positive thought was most directly and most motivatingly naming as the most specific reason the honest reflecting was most essentially worth the continuing: the more honest the reflecting, the more genuinely free from the patterns that were most specifically invisible from the not-clearly-seeing position. The clarity produced from the honest reflecting is the specific, freedom-producing clarity that most directly and most essentially makes the patterns most specifically visible from the seeing-clearly that the honest reflecting was most directly building from the positive thought that most specifically orients the reflecting toward the freedom that the clarity most essentially produces from the honest reflecting most specifically continued.
How Amara and Joel Each Found the Positive Thought That Most Directly Helped Them Reflect With the Clarity the Fogged Position Was Most Specifically Preventing
Amara had been in the specific reflecting position most common in the person who is most specifically in the confusion that the confusion-as-failing interpretation was most consistently and most specifically producing the avoiding-the-reflection from rather than the attending-to-the-confusion-as-the-clarity-signal position that the positive thought was most directly reorienting the confusion toward. The positive thought that most directly helped her reflect with more clarity was the fourth one: the confusion I am sitting with is the specific signal that something important is trying to become clear. The reorienting of the confusion from the failing-evidence to the clarity-signal most directly changed the relationship to the confusion from the avoiding-the-confusion position to the attending-to-the-confusion position that was most specifically and most directly producing the clarity the confusion was most specifically signaling from the inside of the reflecting that was most honestly attending to the signal rather than the avoiding the signal that was most specifically preventing the clarity from the honest attending the positive thought most directly enabled. The clarity arrived from the attending. The attending was enabled by the positive thought. The confusion was the signal. The signal was the clarity’s most direct precursor from the honest attending the positive thought most specifically produced.
Joel’s positive thought was the eighth one: I am allowed to sit with what I discover here before I decide what to do with it. He had been in the specific reflecting position most common in the person whose reflecting was most specifically being converted from the discovering-in-reflection to the immediately-actionable-finding before the sitting-with-the-discovering had most specifically produced the clarity the action most genuinely required: the action-pressure was most specifically converting the reflection from the discovering-and-sitting to the discovering-and-immediately-acting that was most specifically preventing the clarity the sitting was most directly producing from the discovering that the action-pressure was most specifically rushing past without the sitting that was most directly enabling the clarity the action was most essentially requiring from the reflecting. The positive thought was the permission to sit. The sitting produced the clarity. The clarity informed the action. The action was most genuinely available from the clarity the sitting was most directly producing from the positive thought that most specifically gave the permission to sit that the action-pressure was most specifically withholding from the reflecting that was most directly requiring it before the clarity was most specifically available for the acting that the sitting was most essentially preceding.
The Clarity These 9 Positive Thoughts Are Producing Is the Specific, Grounded, Genuinely Orienting Inner Clearing That Most Directly Makes the Honest Reflection Most Specifically Available From the Clearer Position the Right Positive Thought Most Directly Produces From the Inside of the Reflecting.
Reflecting with more clarity through the positive thoughts is built from the specific, genuinely orienting, fog-clearing positive orientations that these nine thoughts most directly provide: the reflection-as-gift that names the moment as the clearer-life-building giving, the honest-asking-over-answers-requiring that releases the pressure, the reflection-as-building-block that orients toward the forward-building, the confusion-as-clarity-signal that reframes the obstacle, the kind-and-honest-as-compatible that names the and-both, the learning-worth-the-discomfort that orients toward the learning, the past-growing-as-evidence that provides the trust, the sitting-before-acting that protects the clarity-producing, and the more-honestly-more-free that names the most specifically available long-term gift. These nine positive thoughts are the honest, fog-clearing, reflection-clarifying orientations that the consistent engaging with most specifically and most directly produces the reflecting-with-more-clarity from the clearer, more grounded, more openly-attending position these thoughts most specifically and most directly enable.
Choose the two or three positive thoughts from this list that most specifically address the current reflecting’s most consistent clarity obstacle. Bring them into the next reflection. Let the orienting clear the fog. Let the cleared fog produce the honest clarity. The reflecting with more clarity is most specifically available from the positive thought most directly clearing the specific fog the reflecting was most consistently being prevented by.
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