Positive thinking has gotten a bad rap lately because people tend to think that it’s a way to wish yourself to success. We all know that no matter how much you wish you were a tour player, without ...

Imagination rules the world, as the saying goes. True, imagination is the source of all visible actions, but it alone is ...

Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking and of avoiding negative emotions. This thinking came as a bit of a surprise to me, given that the business and ...

Positive psychology programmes often recommend patients activities like “gratitude journaling” (writing down the things one ...

When we suffer pain, rejection, disappointment, loss, disease, or another catastrophe, happy talk, whistling in the dark, or putting on a happy face do not work. Every cloud does not have a silver ...

We’re always told by other people to think positive. The key to success is to believe, because once you do, you can achieve your goals. Anything is possible when you rely on the power of positive ...

Nowadays, positive thinking has become a popular concept, but what exactly does it imply? According to Mayo Clinic, positive thinking “doesn’t mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore ...

What could possibly be bad about “staying hopeful” or wrong about trying to “think positively”? Coaches and experts routinely say that fixing our mind-sets can help us fix most of our problems. For ...

When we face adversity, we struggle not because we are lacking positivity, but because we lack the ability to cope with negativity. The two are not the same. The virtues of positive thinking have been ...

Although the late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestselling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, which chronicled the real-life impacts of the 1996 Welfare Reform ...