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

The secret to success, we are sometimes told, is the power of positive thinking. In fact, there’s a famous book devoted to that idea called, appropriately, The Power of Positive Thinking, and there’s ...

Positive thinking is a way of looking at any circumstance and finding the good in it. Every individual has a choice to either think positive, or to allow negative thoughts control them. When thinking ...

How can you be positive, when there’s nothing to be positive about? That was the unexpected question facing Cyndie Spiegel, who had built a public persona around “positive psychology” — the scientific ...

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 ...

Put down the Botox – embracing fine lines and gray hairs could be the key to staying sharp. A new study suggests a link between happiness and health, as researchers say thinking positively about the ...

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 ...

I had a nice conversation on a plane the other day with a woman who told me that she learned about the importance of positive thinking from reading self-help books. When I asked if she found this ...

Positive thinking and striving for happiness are common goals associated with self-improvement. It seems that they’re becoming more pervasive within company cultures, too, as employee happiness, ...

“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 ...