Positive Thinking

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If you have positive thoughts, will you have good luck, like losing weight, winning the lottery & other stuff.

I think positive thoughts can help you take positive steps if they help you feel hopeful or more confident that things will work out or that you will be able to handle them. I don't think the thoughts by themselves will make anything happen. But trying to be positive is certainly better than giving in to despair.

I feel good I feel fine
I feel fine I feel good

I don't have positive thinking.
Positive thinking feels invalidating for me.
Not even gratitude mindset.

And any imaginary positive expectations will drive me nuts because it's very self deceiving and very disappointing.
Which is temporary feel good at best and basically a lotus eating machine that will disrupt my entire week at worst.


No, I have thoughts that is either reasonable encouraging, non judgement rephrasing or very present.


I don't fight my negative thoughts; that will make my head spin in internal conflict. I don't feed them either.
Instead I have to bend them into reason or dismiss it.



The only positive thought I have is that we are not in a middle of a deadly warzone, the certainty that I won't starve to death nor ended up violated.

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What do optimists think? That having positive thoughts will make an angel appear and wave a magic wand to make the world's problems all go away?

Not inherently, no.
But there's not much value in just stewing in misery needlessly either.

Ideally one should engage in critical thinking all the time. It's not as emotionally satisfying as joining the cult of positive thinking, but it helps keep one in check with reality. It's generally more helpful than either constant negativity or constant wishful thinking can ever be though.

If you're prone to catastrophizing it can help shut down those cycles before they get out of control.

While it can crush wishful thinking it can also help with planning realistic solutions to large problems one faces.