I am a fan of Positive Thinking. Do you think Positive Thinking can help people succeed? If so, why? If not, why?

WenRich
http://www.positivethinkingpersonalsuccess.com

Hi Wenrich & welcome to flowers!

You're in at the forum section here in the early stages so your feedback and input can help us all grow at GO!

On positive thinking - it's is essential and 2 quotes just for you:

'A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.' ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

'Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference'. ~Winston Churchill

Feel free to share your wisdom in the home blog where you'll find plenty of thorns & flowers, a great mix. Enjoy and welcome aboard.

I have seen, heard and read on Positive Thinking. In addition to Negative Thinking. I shall not defer, yet I prefer to propose a new level of thinking. As a pioneer of The Art and Science of Total Success, in the training I conducted, I have introduced another level, Beneficial or Detrimental Thinking. This is because Positive or Negative are most apt to suit numbers, and may not fit huwmen behaviors. *Huwmen*, w added as a respect for women. For example, an individual goes to see a doctor, and later, the doctor says, "You are positive H.I.V." Yes, it is positive, but we do not see the individual enthusiastically jumping up and down in total gladness. Again, when another individual promotes freedom of drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, and what are similar, just because he is a positive thinker on these, a society can experience free doom. Thus, what is positive or negative, the wise shall consider on whether it is beneficial or detrimental to her or him, and others too. That is the thinking I promote. Thank you for reading this, and more shall I share with you soon. Total cheers!!!

Positive/Negative - Beneficial/detrimental - Itss just semantics really zublizainordin - however whatever works for you.
Most people know what we mean when we say positive or negative thinking. Nit pickers can pull up the examples you gave but in the main most will know what is meant. I give training to people where I work on various processes we use and in a class I can always rely on one candidate to pull me up for semantics or the one case that doesn't fit the model/work. Personally I would rather not get bogged down in these things. As long as the principle is understood the rest is waffle and petty pandering.

Postivie thinking is fine but it is nothing without planning, initiative and action. You need the whole package.

Agreed - it is part of the package but powerful all the same.

Positive thinking helps you succeed if only in that keeps you from succumbing to negative thoughts and giving up!

ok here is my take on it: Positive thinking helps, but one cannot make oneself think positively, that is artificial. Brining about artificial positiveness is not much use, just like artificial laughter.

But they say that if you smile often enough even when you are sad, you'll start actually feeling better. I think this applies to positive thinking. If you are naturally a pessimist but really take the time to force yourself to repeat a few positive thoughts each day, you'll actually find yourself being more positive. I think we should set up an experiment on this one.

Dare we say the law of attraction and creating our own realities?

The distance we have to master is the 5 inches between our ears!

Funky are you going to give it a go and report back to us?

Positive thinking is the head start before you achieve success in anything..How would you expect to achieve any success if you been thinking negative?

Agreed! Got to believe it to stand any chance...

I think it was Abraham Lincoln that said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." On that note, does happiness have anything to do with "positive thinking"?
Does one have to be 'happy' in order to succeed or practice positive thinking?

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Oh ... forum post! Forum Post!

One doesn't necessarily have to be completely happy to succeed or think positive. BUT, why wouldn't one want to be happy?

To be happy or to be fulfilled...

We'd argue fulfillment is more important here people....

Why would one be unhappy if one is fulfilled? :)

"oh form post, oh forum post"

Very easily Zack....

You could bury a dead pet in a special place in the garden....you're not happy but that closure could be part of fulfillment.

Ahhh. That's very true that one can, in fact feel fulfilled and not be happy.
To carry it further, fulfillment must sometimes be a stepping stone to achieve happiness. While I'm burying the dead pet I feel saddened, yet fulfilled and therefore, later I felt much better. If I had someone else bury the pet for me, I wouldn't feel that fulfillment and continue to be sad later on.

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This was in the last issue of "What Is Enlightenment" (a marvelous zine, in my opinion) and it truly made me consider our involvement here on this third rock from the sun.

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