{"id":42,"date":"2014-10-11T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-10-12T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T12:59:14","slug":"see-the-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/2014\/10\/11\/see-the-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Positive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/positive-attitude1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"positive-attitude[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/10\/positive-attitude1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"positive-attitude[1]\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Every morning this week, I woke up to negative messages&#8230;on\u00a0the home page of the computer server, the newspaper, Facebook, the TV, etc., etc.\u00a0 There were negative stories on the stock market, Ebola, ISIS activity, political controversary, and the list goes on.\u00a0 Do you know the impact this can have on people?\u00a0 These messages can spread like a virus and create an epidemic of negativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Did you ever notice how, when we get close to an election, more and more negative news stories emerge?\u00a0 A simple use of wording, can slant a story\u00a0one way or another, and send out tainted messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Watch the stock market.\u00a0 An economic report can be interpreted\u00a0as positive or negative and it can throw off the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR OR READ!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you choose to read all of those negative\u00a0articles, watch for simple words that are intended to cause panic or mislead you.\u00a0 They\u00a0may speculate, look at \u201cpossible\u201d leads, and sensationalize.\u00a0 If you have ever been interviewed, it is shocking\u00a0how they only take small bytes of what you said, and twist\u00a0it\u00a0to have a new meaning.\u00a0 You\u00a0may not even recognize the statements credited to you.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder we live in an anxiety filled world?\u00a0 It &#8220;appears&#8221; there is nothing positive in our world of gloom and doom.\u00a0 When we choose to believe it, it becomes a part of \u00a0our daily conversation, and it continues to spread like a bad game of telephone.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the media have power over you!\u00a0 Don\u2019t let other media followers influence\u00a0your thinking!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Start today by seeing the beauty in the world!\u00a0 It is all arount you too.\u00a0 Your thoughts belong to you!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t allow others to dump negativity on you.\u00a0 Choose to pass positive energy\u00a0on your children, family, friends, and neighbors.\u00a0 This too can spread like a virus\u00a0throughout the world!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kathi Ackerman, MSW, LGSW, LADC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning this week, I woke up to negative messages&#8230;on\u00a0the home page of the computer server, the newspaper, Facebook, the TV, etc., etc.\u00a0 There were negative stories on the stock market, Ebola, ISIS activity, political controversary, and the list goes on.\u00a0 Do you know the impact this can have on people?\u00a0 These messages can spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}