When Elaine Sugar started to see first-hand the sea of negativity that the children of America were subject to, she knew it was her calling to do something about it. And it doesn’t take much time with Elaine for it to become super clear that she’s the right woman for the job.

Vibrant, wonderful and with a huge smile, best-selling children’s author and founder of mental wellness events group – MAPS, Sugar brings care to her work in both community building and carving a better path to positive thinking for kids across the country.

1. Getting out of the Negativity Hotel

 
we all“So people say, ‘you talk about positivity all the time. So what about when you don’t feel like being positive?’

And Elaine’s answer is simple…
“Okay, respect and go to that place, but treat it like a hotel, you can check in, but you don’t live there.
That’s the thing.
You don’t live there.”

Does that make you feel like you’ve been gifted a breath of fresh air?

The simple notion that it’s OK to find yourself in the negativity hotel sometimes, we all do!
But just like all hotels you have the option to leave whenever you want.
You’re only there for a short time and perhaps there’s something for you to learn during your stay.

And it’s Elaine’s comforting perspective that felt like an audio hug in our podcast interview, that has drawn so many people to her movement.

2. Build a Positive Movement

Now, this doesn’t have to be a global community like Positive Prime or Elaine’s Vibrant Living Summit.

It can be a micro-movement – just you and a friend, or a group of friends who get together and there’s simply one rule.
No negativity – This is a sacred space for Positivity.
We have enough places for drowning in the sea of sadness, so bring your smiles and enjoy a cup of tea.

It’s amazing what you can accomplish with a positive container and one simple guideline.

Foundations of happiness

As a designer of happiness Elaine spends a lot of her time supporting people to find their foundations. And in many instances it is an uphill battle because there is a concerning undercurrent that it’s not OK to give children compliments all the time.

This misconception sounds like,
“If I teach my children to say all these wonderful positive things about themselves, then they might become you know, egotistical, they might think too highly of themselves, they might become conceited” says Elaine.

But Elaine will always point to the numbers.

And according to Elaine’s mentor Bruce Lipton, 90% of the messages children receive are negative. So the messages we deliver our kids need to be positive affirmations.
In fact, they need a little bit of sugar!

This is a kind of SUGAR we want to get behind because Elaine believes, and the statistics back her up, that we’ve undersold the power of positive thinking to children in schools.

Present the Evidence

There is a school of thought that if we’re giving children all an award for turning up, then it is creating a lack of need to try and this isn’t what Elaine is teaching, far from it.

Elaine has a mantra that is a potent way to think about how to reinforce positivity into all of our systems and in particular our children: 

“Present the Evidence” in other words, Evidence Based Affirmations.

And this is brilliant, because it’s potent to see others demonstrating the kinds of behaviours we aspire to.

However, if you want to supercharge this it’s about adding the things that prove you have got it in you to be happy and the best you can be.

Aron O’Dowd is an athlete who uses Positive Prime for not only performance while training, but to remind himself of his PB’s, by placing significant imagery into his Positive Prime Sessions. 

16 year old Tommy Danielson, hit his first hole in one while golfing. He placed the image of the ball in the cup into his Session and did it again ten days later.  

 And in keeping with the school theme, Vari McGowen puts the work of her year one kids as well as picture of them having fun into the Positive Prime Session they watch every morning . 

This is SUGAR in partnership with Positive Prime.  

And just like above, Elaine says “add to your affirmations” as if they are a living breathing evolution of who you are and who want to become.

When the student is ready

Elaine’s journey has taken her across many fields on her way to running global positivity events and that’s why we’re so glad that she found us at Positive Prime and it came at the perfect time.

“It was like a mentor showed up to say, hey, put this with what you’ve already learned and take it to a whole other level,” says Elaine.

And her aspirations have now interwoven with the goals for Positive Prime, with our technology featuring as a living breathing element of Elaine’s Vibrant Living Summit where the attendees will all be involved in Sessions to come into positive coherence with one another. 

This is what’s called exponential growth and the art of synergy, proving that age old equation that 1 plus 1 = 3 or more!  

Your guide to Vibrant Living

For a taste of Sugar magic you can watch Elaine’s Session above but to go a layer deeper you can signup for the Vibrant Living Global Summit featuring Positive Prime Founder Kim Serafini and one of our other favourite Professional Leaders Jackie Simmons. To sign up for free click here. 

And if you would like to trial Positive Prime and experience 100s of unforgettable Sessions to change your life. You can find the link for a ten-day trial here.