What you listen to expands into your life.  Whether you realize it or not, music changes who you are because it goes straight into your mind and pushes your thoughts in the direction of the music.  If you listen to sick music, you put sick thoughts into your mind.  If you listen to inspiring music, you pump your mind full of good things.

You need to develop a musical listening program that lifts you up and makes it easier to live as a positive person.  Instead of listening to a haphazard collection of songs, focus on music that inspires you to be the best you can be.  Select rousing music that starts you marching in the direction of your dreams.  When you listen to music, you should be able to hear the sound of your dreams.  Don’t neglect the power of positive music.

If the only thing you listen to is the dull thud of depressing thoughts dropping into your mind, then you are listening to the wrong thing.  It’s high time you started listening to music that pushes your mind in a positive direction.

Music gives you the power to strong arm your mind.  Try performing physical exercise with and without music.  Physical exercise with music is much more enjoyable because it switches your focus away from the pain and discomfort associated with working out.  Your attitude toward physical exercise is radically different when you are pumping positive music into your mind.

You don’t have to be performing physical exercise for music to have its salubrious effect.  Music can push your mind in a positive direction while you sit in your easy chair or while driving your car.

Does music affect your mood?  Absolutely!  That’s why they make mood music; they use it to change the way you feel.  They play music in stores to stimulate you to buy merchandise.  They play music at political rallies to make you feel patriotic.  They play music in the military to get everyone marching in step.

Your mind is always listening, and you need to send it a positive message.  Without much effort on your part, good music can drive depression from your mind and at the same time install a Positive Operating System.

Music isn’t the only way you can use listening to put good things into your mind.  Positive thinkers have recorded hundreds of different cassette programs that show you how to reach your dreams.  These inspirational recordings are a gold mine.  They contain enough positive nuggets to make you into a mental millionaire. 

The cassette player is a positive mind pump that never gets tired and never complains.  It will pump positive thoughts into your mind for as long as the batteries have power.  Your mind is waiting to hear from you, so turn on your audiocassette player and send it a positive message.

I don’t know how many hundreds of hours I have spent listening to audiocassettes from Zig Ziglar, but I know my life is better because of the positive thoughts he put into my mind.  You should turn on the positive mind pump whenever you get a chance, because you need all the help you can get if you want to be a positive person in a negative world.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D