Cultivate the Plant of Positive Thinking in the Garden of Life I believe in positive thinking because it is like a small plant which can grow huge with the help of some fertilizer and regular care. Similarly, the more I use positive thinking, the better I will be at it, and the more it will grow. I am not saying that it is easy to think positively all the time, but I believe that most of my thoughts and ideas should reflect happiness and positivity. To obtain happiness one needs to learn to be
of one’s thinking is so strong that the course of his or her life may depend on it. Optimistic thoughts are more likely to attract positive and good things into one’s life. On the other hand, a negative outlook is more likely to bring about negative situations, experiences and outcomes in a person’s life. Negative thinking brings a person down and holds him or her back while positive thinking is uplifting. Although positive thoughts prove to be beneficial, establishing a consistent positive thought
Mental Healing: Does Positive Thinking Act Upon Brain Neurons to Improve Health? Almost all of us have heard of a scenario such as this one: A woman battling cancer has lost almost all hope of recovery. She has not been able to turn to her family for support for fear of their reactions to her illness. One morning she finally breaks down and tells her husband about the cancer. Instead of being devastated and turning his back on his wife, the husband supports the wife, every step of the way, and
In “The Delusion of Positive Thinking,” by Barbara Ehrenreich states that positive thinking does not help us succeed in life. Ehrenreich begins by mentioning that majority of the american people believe that we “are a ‘positive’ people”. Ehrenreich then states some positive aspects of being positive which are that being in a positive mood will helps us live longer, and smiling will help “generate positive feelings within us”. However, happiness can not measure positive thinking becauses different
If one wants to bring a zest, initiative and energy to the life, he needs to contemplate on the advantages of positive thinking. It will not be an exaggeration to say that your fate depends on what your attitude is. Nothing can be compared to the freshness these positive thoughts bring you. Great people always warn us to live in the present tense and not to brood on the past and worry about the future. To achieve this, one needs to have a grip on his mind. Mind is the place where all the emotions
busy making others happy, that I forget to make sure I’m okay.”? After reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided I have learned that balancing both positive and negative thinking is the single most important life lesson shown throughout the book. Ehrenreich tells readers that the power of positive thinking Is undermining America and how being too positive and too optimistic, can lead to trouble. One that knows how to balance the amount of positivity and negativity will create a proper outcome for their
Norman Vincent Peale, minister and author of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, once declared: “the trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”. The majority of people do not take pleasure in receiving criticism; this is especially the case in the world of public speaking. Criticism in public speaking assists with refining skills and supports personal growth, but it is not without challenges. There are ways to overcome the challenges which accompany
Immediate Positive thinking The benefits of positive thinking We all need more positivity in our lives, otherwise, we wouldn 't be able to sustain ourselves mentally. Positivity is a platform to hope, a warm greeting or even a smile. It enlightens your day in ways you can’t possibly explain. Judge for yourself through the following example. Imagine someone negative coming across people the whole day and having to go to work like this person always
feeling in a manner consistent with the action. By acting as if you were already happy, positive and confident, you soon begin to feel that way on the inside. And your actions are under your direct control, whereas your emotions are not. The outer aspects of your life are neutral. It is the meaning that you give to them that determines your attitudes, emotions, opinions and reactions to them. If you change your thinking about a certain part of your life, you will change how you feel and behave in that
Business By Breaking All The Rules it states that to succeed in business one must be able to use an unorthodox style which allows that person to break free from ancient ways of thinking and be able to use new ideas in developing entrepreneurial and business skills. One way this will be proven is to look at how positive thinking and motivation hamper people in making tough business decisions. Secondly, this will be proven by examining the education system, and showing that one does not always need a
hyped as an employee benefit. The casual experiment quickly gained popularity. The attitudes toward casual dress began as positive and at its peak in the mid 1990’s the business industry reported that 63.7% of all businesses were allowing some form of casual dress (Cotton, Inc., 1997). Positive Thinking Whether true or perceived, some businesses and workers have stated a positive outcome to casual dress. “Some of the more commonly touted benefits include improved employee morale, a lack of cost to
reached adulthood and become a mother myself, I have also known her as a friend. My mom shared much of herself with me, and I saw sides of my mother as she struggled with her cancer that I had never seen before, especially her strong belief in positive thinking and the importance of quality of life. I was privileged to know so many facets of my mother, but certainly I did not know all. There were parts of her life that I didn’t see, relationships that I didn’t know about. Last night, at the wake, so
easier to see. And one of the most legendary, tragic plays of them all still has some positive things in it. Even if like I said they are a little are to find! There are possibly more positive things you could get out of Romeo and Juliet but here are the three I got; they found true love, they found out who really cared about them, and that the two families stopped fighting. To start, one of the most positive things that came out of Romeo and Juliet is that they were able to find true love in spite
Chapter 1 – Beyond Positive Thinking Your unlimited power lies in your ability to control your thoughts. A confused mind works in the direction of sickness, poverty, lack and limitation rather than in the direction of abundance, health and success. The only way we can truly heal the world is to heal ourselves first. We need to remind ourselves of who we are and what we are capable of. We need to take responsibility for everything that has happened to us. Thought leads to feelings, feelings lead to
The Power of Positive Thinking Positive thinking can be a useful, powerful tool to get through difficult situations that life can bring and it can also be used to help improve the overall quality of one’s life. Those that believe in the power of positive thinking, such as motivational speakers, life coaches, and self-help gurus, claim that taking an optimistic approach to life has shown great benefits. Some of the benefits that believers of positive thinking claim to experience are more stability
agree that positive thinking is a person’s key to success and happiness. However, some researchers are now saying that positive thinking can actually have an adverse effect on a person’s life. It has long been believed that optimism is good for a person, but new research is beginning to bring to light the negative aspects of positive thinking. Optimism has always been viewed as a positive trait, but people are now seeing that at times it can be just as harmful as helpful. Positive thinking is often
explore the correlation between positive and negative thinking with productivity. Positive and negative thinking has always been polar opposites dependent on the perspective that one takes upon. With sales for self help books doubling in percentage compared to all other genres of books since the 1970 shows for an increasing popularity for self help books. This indicates a growing awareness amongst Singaporeans to maximise personal happiness
In the chapter “ The Upside of Dreaming” from her book Rethinking Positive Thinking, Gabriele Oettingen explains how positive fantasies are beneficial. Oettingen started out with a story of a college graduate. The college graduate Rachael was dealing with a heartbroken experience with seeing her boyfriend going to jail for selling drugs. Rachael felt as if she had a stay by her boyfriend’s side. She dreamt that the judge or the prosecutor was saying something bad about her boyfriend, Tim and giving
choose a candy bar, your brain started thinking of all the possibilities that depended on which candy you chose. You would think which one would taste better, make your feel better, and maybe be healthier for you. In the end, you would narrow your choices down to one piece of candy and eat it happily. Game theory is the use of theory to think through all of the positive and negative possibilities that could happen in a problem and try to maximize the positive. Game theory is not just one theory, throughout
the classroom a more viable option for many families and schools, respectively. While there are obvious benefits of technology as a learning tool for our children, there are many downfalls as well. This paper hopes to better explain some of the positives, such as fast word processing, Internet information searches and computer reference databases such as encyclopedias and contrast them with some of the negative effects including online predators, child-inappropriate Internet content and the seeming