I love St. Paul’s instruction to think about true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellence and things worthy of praise. Phillipians 4-8.

Though it’s a simple concept, it’s not a simple practice. Partly because our cultural norm is to prepare for the worst. No matter how pleasant the news is, someone has to jump in with all the warnings.

It’s just as easy (with practice) to think about the best thing happening at the other end of a situation as the worst thing. They are both an exercise in your imagination.

Even remembering a good thing or a bad thing that happened in the past is relived (or not) in your imagination. You have to imagine it.

If I find myself worrying about a situation, I try to catch myself and imagine the best thing that could happen.

It helps.