Always Think Positive

One day an eight year old boy named Charlie was playin in the park, climbing trees. He was a good climber and soon climbed 30 feet high in a tree. Excited, he started hanging on one of its branches and swinging back and forth.

He was having so much fun he didn't realize that at any moment, one of the branches could break.

His cousin Josh, who was just a year older, started playing on the same tree. He was hanging just 10 feet below him.

Charlie's father and Josh's mother noticed that kids were up too high and they could fall. Before they could get to them. Suddenly a gust of wind came over the tree and it started to sway.

Charlie could here the voice of his father saying, " Charlie hold on tightly." Josh mother was shouting, "Josh don't fall."

Seconds later Josh fell out of the tree. His mother ran to his rescue, but luckily he wasn't injured.

Charlie scampered carefully down the tree to safety. 

After getting home, Josh's mother asked Charlie's father, "I wonder why both of our boys were hanging from same tree, yet my older son fell and your's didin't?"

Charlie's father replied,"I can't say for sure, but when the gust of wind came, you panicked and yelled out, "Josh don't fall" and then in that moment he did." 

Josh's mom looked suprised, so Charlie's dad explained further. "You see the mind processes commands. It has a very difficult time processing fear and negativity. In order for Josh to respond to the command of not falling, he first had to imagine falling and then try to tell brain not to fall. When Charlie was told to hold on tightly his brain had an instant image and command of hanging on tightly and so he did. "

Josh's mother was intrigued by his response and went home that night still thinking about what happened. She believed in positive thinking, but she never really thought about the real life implication and their effect on the mind and our experiences in such a way.