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People have been touting the power of positive thinking for a long time, but recently science started to back it up. It seems like every day I see some article about positive self esteem and how it improves health and happiness. If we are to believe the experts, thinking positively can increase longevity, improve thinking skills, and make us more likely to succeed in day to day tasks. It is clear that the power of positive thinking has gone beyond hype and established itself as a firm fact of life. Just as how, through the power of negative thinking, we can doom ourselves to repeated patterns of failure, through positive thought we can succeed despite the greatest of obstacles.

I recently took a  positive thinking course that really had a profound effect on me. In many ways, it was a little bit difficult to get past my initial skepticism. We would use tools like positive affirmations  to try to brainwash ourselves into thinking more positively. I knew that it was a course in programming yourself to have certain attitudes, but I thought that there was nothing wrong with that. Still, doing it in a room filled with thousands of people all eager to convince themselves that everything would go well if they only put their mind to it was a little bit frightening at times.

Still, there is no denying that the positive attitudes that I developed through that course have had results. Ever since I studied the power of positive thinking, I have found myself to be happier, more socially outgoing, and more successful in my everyday tasks. I have gotten a promotion, began to work on several projects that I had put off for years at a time, and in general gotten into a healthier, happier place than I used to be. My relationship is even going better, and I had thought that it was doomed before I took the course. Although the power of positive thinking hasn’t completely revolutionized my life, it has definitely made itself known.

A lot of people get intimidated by the thought of going to a large convention, and instead read a book on positive thought. In my opinion, this is a mistake. The power of positive thinking, of course, can be learned through a book, but it is much easier to learn through social interaction with positive, outgoing people. In order to put the power of positive thought into action, it has to go beyond an idea for you. When you are actually trying to learn the techniques in the company of other people, it makes them more real.