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

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

Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

“The philosophy of positive thinking means being untruthful,” Osho said. “It means being dishonest. It means seeing a certain thing and yet denying what you have seen; it means deceiving yourself and ...

Toxic positivity has earned a lot of backlash recently. Of course, we shouldn’t berate ourselves with negative self-talk, and there’s value in encouraging ourselves when fearful (I routinely utter, “I ...