What Is Positive Thinking?

Positive Thinking is the act of seeing the world in a brighter light, and from a simply different point of view.

It is the ability to find the “silver lining” in the bad, the golden nugget in the pile of poop, or the red thread that connects even the worst events to a greater, better cause.

But, most simply put, it is the ability not to take things too seriously.

Negative thoughts often arise from the gravity we give to a situation.

A Bill in the Mail, for example, becomes something negative and dire only when we are worried about more than the money that is written on that bill.

When we think about our livelihood that is at stake, think about our families well-being or about how much further away we are from our dreams than we anticipated, that is when we become serious about it and when it all turns dark.

Negative thinking, then, is about the thoughts that take part in these spirals.

It’s the spirals that start when you see your partner laughing with another guy or girl and that end with you questioning everything they have ever done.

It’s the spirals that start when you walk through the street and see someone looking at you in an odd way and that end with you crying yourself to sleep at night for how sick and tired…