Perhaps the French will take the power of positive thinking seriously, now that positive thinking is in power.
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The Power of Positive Thinking & The Result of Positive Thinking, both written by the American psychologist Dr Norman Vincent Peale, may be rewarding to read.
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"The Power of Positive Thinking" and "The Results of Positive Thinking" both written by the American psychologist Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, may be rewarding to read.
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But XXXtentacion was not an example of such positive thinking.
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I believe in the power of positive thinking and energy.
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"This is a renewal of that type of positive thinking."
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This is the version of positive thinking cancer taught me.
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Unsurprisingly, there is more than positive thinking at work here.
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They don't demand that you slather yourself with positive thinking.
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It's the power of positive thinking combined with group telekinesis.
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Like you gave yourself cancer because you didn't employ positive thinking.
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" The positive thinking at times shades into outright delusion: "Do good.
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There are no spaces free from its brand of positive thinking.
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And that vocation is fueled by a theology of positive thinking.
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Positive thinking has almost become an ideology in foreign policy circles.
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"I'm not a proponent of perpetual positive thinking either," Woodruff says.
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While Jamie's positive-thinking about the state of women's rights is admirable.
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"Creative, positive thinking can be a powerful source of success," he wrote.
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Positive thinking can actually activate our brain's ability to adapt and change.
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If you ask science, there is evidence that positive thinking has its benefits.
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Still, positive thinking is the order of the day, at least in public.
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All it takes is some positive thinking -- and creativity -- to make it work.
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Writers of books like The Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale.
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Rather than positive thinking, try on my mental-fitness approach of realistic power thinking.
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Not just with positive thinking and a can-do attitude, important though they are.
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"In many ways I love the positive thinking one finds in America," she writes.
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And the positive thinking of "Liberated" uses the superficial as a springboard to idealism.
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But his positive thinking is not derived from brain research, nor are his prescriptions.
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Like bribery, rigidity and incompetence, blindly positive thinking is always a risk in bureaucracies.
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We have to be optimistic and hope that some "Power of Positive Thinking" holds true.
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Both groups, whether they knew it or not, were in the grips of positive thinking.
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John's final SHARK Point makes use of what he calls the power of positive thinking.
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Scientific research shows that daily gratitude can improve your mood more than simple positive thinking.
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You may have guessed that our topic for today is The Power of Positive Thinking.
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They disguise their impulsivity as positive thinking while insisting everything will work out just fine.
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Did the participants forget the adage about positive thinking and the glass being half full?
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This attitude is represented further as he continued: "I'm a very positive-thinking person," he reflected.
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On the other hand, Oettingen describes positive thinking as simply daydreaming about the future and fantasizing.
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Positive thinking can better behavior by leading people to engage in healthier lifestyles such as exercise.
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The curriculum offered a straightforward application of positive thinking, said his instructor, or coach, Carlos Moyá.
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I decided this was the kind of positive thinking the doctors were encouraging us to have.
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I think it's a combination of my faith, prayers, and positive thinking that made this happen.
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I get in the shower frustrated at my level of fitness but practice some positive thinking.
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Positive thinking, coupled with actively addressing the physical symptoms of stress, will make you noticeably calmer.
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When you have this internal feeling that you're helping, positive thinking helps you to achieve your goal.
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He tries to debunk theories from popular sports psychology about positive thinking and blocking out negative thoughts.
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We're never going to get to the point where we have a constant stream of positive thinking.
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Positive thinking—to me—is more like finding a life-preserver and upon grabbing it, it's deflated.
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Each training session started with a 45-minute exercise designed to show the benefits of positive thinking.
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Many people's illnesses don't allow wholly positive thinking, so forcing positivity can stigmatize and further isolate them.
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But in the interest of positive thinking, we're going to believe that everything turns out alright for Malorie.
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Manifesting your thoughts into reality, Dr. Amsellem says, might be an extension of the idea behind positive thinking.
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Folks like to tell us cancer patients a lot about how prayer and positive thinking can cure cancer.
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Mr. Rouhana, whose brand is predicated on positive thinking, is optimistic about the extension into web-based video.
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Though it cuts against the American grain, we have to put the brakes on all this positive thinking.
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It's an example of the good-natured, positive thinking that first drew Brent and Becky together three decades back.
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Positive thinking impressed the drifter middle-class girls he met in Haight-Ashbury when he got released, in 1967.
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Oh, and Samsung's already calling the Note 8 "great" internally, if only to harness the power of positive thinking.
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When we embrace positive thinking, we build our character and get to improve that way we get things done.
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She got wrapped up in positive thinking, but a too extreme way, too rainbow-y or too unicorn-y.
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Studies have found that while positive thinking is important for exploring future possibilities, it may be stifling your progress.
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Positive thinking isn't guaranteed to prevail; the state of the world is too unsettled for U22016 to make promises.
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To do his best on game day, Sherman tells CNBC Make It he uses a simple trick: Positive thinking.
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According to Mayo Clinic, positive thinking helps you cope with stressful situations, diminishing stress's harmful returns on the body's health.
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Like cults, MLMs often have a strong culture of positive thinking that's centered around blocking out any and all negativity.
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"Please join with me in positive thinking that my brother and Daniele will return safely," Kate wrote, BBC News reported.
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"I got a crash course in positive thinking," says Aldridge, whose odyssey is now being made into a feature film.
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That positive thinking helped him get through the times when he easily could have doubted his career as a fighter.
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Capital Q (Quinn Leathem; filmmaker; Stompdown Killaz co-founder; Ephin co-owner): SDK is a movement of positive thinking people.
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The theological roots of "positive thinking" show how the seeming polar extremes of pessimism and optimism work hand in hand.
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Peale's "positive thinking" is part of one of the great revolutions in American history, the overthrow of the Calvinist conscience.
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In "Bright-Sided," her 2009 critique of America's obsession with positive thinking, Barbara Ehrenreich noted a similar development among cancer patients.
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Noname emerged from Chicago, where her poetry drew the attention of Chance the Rapper, another embracing, positive-thinking, faith-based performer.
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" Aside from fighting crime, Wiseau has one final message for artists: "Positive thinking is something you can never get rid of.
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What do you make of the fact that positive thinking as a driving force to control your health became so mainstream?
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The idea that positive thinking can make your life better suggests that if your life isn't improving, that blame rests with you.
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The study concluded that positive thought-action fusion was not the same as optimism or positive thinking, but was a separate phenomenon.
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So go ahead, use your apps, charms, positive thinking or whatever rituals you do to keep hope alive, and enter the lottery.
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It turns out the positive thinking your local yoga teacher preaches can increase your lifespan and rewire your brain for the better.
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One other thing that can help a lot internally is trying not to get too swept up into too much positive thinking.
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On March 3, he also said he would use the power of "positive thinking" to beat the virus if he got infected.
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Aimee would chalk it up to fortune, which, mixed with a drop of positive thinking, she sees as the universe's prime mover.
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Perhaps you will feel less physical pain and discomfort, as positive thinking has been credited with reducing cardiovascular disease and increasing lifespan.
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On the other hand, there's Frankie's daughter, Sue, a lover of rainbows and unicorns, for whom positive thinking has been a lifesaver.
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We're fed a lot of platitudes about positive thinking — fake it till you make it, find the silver lining, the list goes on.
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New research has found that positive thinking and fantasizing about the future may actually lead to longer lasting feelings of sadness — even depression.
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In her book, "Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America" (2009), Barbara Ehrenreich describes the downside of this hack-yourself-perfect culture.
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It's a bit like a cynical, reversed version of the positive-thinking Jim Carrey comedy "Yes Man," with the smile turned upside-down.
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Instead, viewers can tune in to watch the Republican candidate talk about "well-being, being active, and positive thinking," a senior aide explained.
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Now the rose ceremony: Once again, everyone attempts to use the power of positive thinking to send Lee home and it fails to work.
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The Mad Money star is filming The Secret, based on the book of the same name which focuses on the power of positive thinking.
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For these people — and Held counts herself as one of them — negative thinking improves function, and positive thinking actually worsens performance and self-satisfaction.
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Some people, for example, still believe it's just a "bad mood" that can be "cured" through positive thinking, exercise, or spending time in nature.
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In interviews, such surrogates talked about the importance of "good vibrations, the power of positive thinking to actually change the outcome," Dr. White said.
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" Dr. Rozanski likened the practice to increasing muscle strength, "gradually building a 'muscle' of positive thinking, for example, by trying to feel more grateful.
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Studies show that clearing your head space of negative thoughts will allow you to open up your mind to more creative and positive thinking.
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Surging bond rates could also throw cold water on Powell's positive thinking, and call the Fed's whole strategy of gradual rate increases into question.
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It's the spirit of positive thinking overcoming reality that grounds the second part of Trump's jeremiad, and that also throws the speech off course.
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It is an unsubtle reference to "The Power of Positive Thinking", a self-help book by Norman Vincent Peale, and one favoured by Mr Trump.
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To the Editor: I was so disheartened by Barbara Ehrenreich's leap to assume that it's selfish to find personal empowerment through positive thinking and gratitude.
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It's ironic for me personally that she points to the crash of 2008 as an excellent reason for people to have abandoned "silly" positive thinking.
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Lee's belief in the power of positive thinking comes through in a letter he wrote to a friend during that shaky period in his life.
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At the church, a charismatic minister named Norman Vincent Peale preached a theology of positive thinking, the rejection of negative thoughts and relentless self-promotion.
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It takes a surfeit of positive thinking to even begin to go in an innovative direction rather than just accept society for what it is.
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Some Sagittarians even imply it's your fault when someone treats you badly because you aren't fully on board with the latest trend in positive thinking!
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You don't need to believe in the law of attraction or the power of positive thinking or any of that stuff to understand Helen's message.
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You have to have a tough mind, really positive thinking after you start throwing because it's what's going to get you through the whole process.
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Meanwhile, Grant Halvorson underscores how unrealistic optimists believe that success will happen to them as a reward from the universe for all their positive thinking.
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Your inner-happiness needs to be harnessed in the present, so you can use the power of positive thinking to reach those new heights eventually.
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"We have very positive thinking on the Belt and Road initiative", Jyrki Katainen, vice-president of the European Commission, told CNBC at the conference on Monday.
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This is not the same as positive thinking (as in "the power of"), Mr. Zander insists, though the differences are not always clear to an outsider.
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Our guide has tons of advice, but let's talk about two specific ways we often defeat ourselves: too much positive thinking and too little self-forgiveness.
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Santana's multifaceted, proudly bilingual blues-Latin-rock-jazz-pop catalog invokes its own migrations and fusions, now linked to messages of positive thinking and global healing.
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Oettingen, the author of " Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation," says this kind of mindset can ultimately be detrimental to your overall wellness.
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Girl Guides will take part in sessions designed to teach girls about resilience and techniques for positive thinking, as well as helping them identify their support networks.
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The businessman credited "the power of positive thinking" for helping him rebound in the 93s, when his casinos were tanking and he owed creditors billions of dollars.
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The research analyzed the results of four different studies looking at the power of a specific type of positive thinking, related to fantasies about a better future.
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If The Power of Positive Thinking channeled America's post-war optimism of the '50s, then Infinite Resignation—which came out on July 19—is our contemporary elegy.
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The lure was Dr. Peale, a household name since the publication of the 19903 best seller that transformed "the power of positive thinking" into a national catchphrase.
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Gregor Hochmuth, 33, an early engineer at Instagram, said some of today's internet giants had grown up with positive-thinking cultures that left them vulnerable to abuse.
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It was more Norma Desmond than Norman Vincent Peale, the Trump family pastor who wrote "The Power of Positive Thinking" and influenced Donald's thinking as a child.
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The origins of the prosperity gospel date back to a nineteenth-century movement called New Thought, which asserted that health and fortune can be achieved through positive thinking.
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Uncontrolled, ill-conceived and poorly managed, such collisions could, of course, implode, explode or otherwise have negative results — but let's apply some positive thinking and imagine the possibilities.
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Peale's book, "The Power of Positive Thinking", was a forerunner of the "prosperity gospel" popular with evangelicals; it contends that adherence to the religious life can bring wealth.
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Whether you believe in The Secret or any of that power-of-positive-thinking stuff or not, setting an intention and sending it your good vibes can't hurt.
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The president has long believed in the teachings of Norman Vincent Peale's midcentury self-help gospel, The Power of Positive Thinking, which promised to turn believers into achievers.
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"Uyai" ("beauty" in the Nigerian language Ibibio) is an album full of positive-thinking songs and deep, inventive grooves that hotwire decades of African, European and American music.
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I can breathe deeper, slow my brain down and flood my mental threshold with more positive thinking to disrupt the negative, spiraling thought cycles that have been my norm.
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My father and I ventured into the world, and an important lesson I have learned is that the power of positive thinking can and will make dreams become reality.
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The growing popularity of life, career, and even love coaches may seem a natural extension of the positive-thinking continuum, an ever-more aggressive grasp for a fulfilled life.
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His research shows that people can transform a tendency toward pessimistic thinking into positive thinking through simple techniques that create lasting changes in behavior long after they are discovered.
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However, low returns have pushed investors into riskier assets, while some of the cheap money has presumably been lent to equity buyers, boosting demand, share prices and positive thinking.
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"I think I'm a 'power of positive thinking' guy," he says, adding he hopes one day "there are going to be too many [hits] to fit" on his dermal canvas.
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Do not underestimate the power of positive thinking, especially when it&aposs coming from someone who knows the good guy from the bad and how to speak both their languages.
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Research published in the Harvard Business Review shows that positive thinking on the subject can work: People who tell themselves they are creative are more likely to actually be creative.
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It may sound counterintuitive, but a study showed that a lot of times when people think about resolutions and goals they tend to confuse optimism and positive thinking with achievement.
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And perhaps most importantly, Skye advocates for positive thinking, saying: "Don't forget, no matter what your goal is it's important to love yourself along the way and be kind to yourself."
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And research featured in the Harvard Business Review shows that positive thinking on the subject can work: people who tell themselves they are creative are more likely to actually be creative.
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In 983, Peale published The Power of Positive Thinking, a New York Times best-seller for 186 weeks that sold more than 5 million copies and was translated into 15 languages.
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Hillsong added a healthy dose of prosperity gospel theology, adhering to the belief that spiritual purity, "positive thinking," and expressions of unswerving faith will yield immediate material benefits for true believers.
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We're learning more and more every day that we have the power to practice compassion for ourselves, positive thinking and other exercises that will literally change the way our brain works.
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The lyrics on Jupiter & Okwess's new album, "Kin Sonic," concentrate on positive thinking rather than open protest; they insist on unity, mutual respect, justice, humility and thinking about the long term.
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Trump's faith, if such a thing exists, stems from a variant of popular Christianity known for its "positive thinking," to cite the term used by Trump's favorite "theologian," Norman Vincent Peale.
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For example, this large blue chrysocolla—a "supportive goddess energy stone"—is from the Tyrone Copper Mine, and this $48 pyrite stone to "promote positive thinking" is from the Chino Copper Mine.
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Trump's curious mixture of pessimism and optimism might be rooted in the flimsy self-help gospel of Positive Thinking, but it would be a mistake to confuse the message with the messenger.
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As our casual studio chat quickly encompasses faith, politics and the power of positive thinking, there's a palpable sense Novelist cares about the bettering of people as much as he does music.
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Strickland lives in a suburban split-level with his wife and two kids, drives a Cadillac, reads "The Power of Positive Thinking" and is into mechanical missionary sex (and workplace sexual harassment).
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A new study published Monday finds men and women with the highest levels of optimism had an 11% to 15% longer life span on average than those who practiced little positive thinking.
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So if they cultivate compassion and insight in this life by training in positive thinking and properly relating to others, then one would carry those qualities and their potential into the next.
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Maybe a little bit of Warren will rub off on you, and you'll see that optimism is not just positive thinking -- but the right outlook on how you, too, can transform the world.
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"You never want to throw 21 pitches in an inning, but when you do and if you can throw up a zero somehow, then you definitely go away with ... positive thinking," Graveman said.
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More specifically, Mr Trump's language is filled with echoes of a much-mocked but potent American religious movement with millions of followers, known by such labels as "positive thinking" or the "prosperity gospel".
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That positive thinking must be important now more than ever since announcing that a recent M.R.I. scan revealed a herniated disk, threatening your ability to finish the year with your No. 1 ranking.
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It's downright common for people to claim that God and faith can cure mental illness (The secular version of this phenomenon substitutes "positive thinking" or "mindfulness" or the self-help gospel du jour).
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Although he was brought up Presbyterian, the Manhattan church that he attended, Marble Collegiate, was best known for its celebrity preacher, Norman Vincent Peale, who marketed and monetized the power of positive thinking.
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"It looks like the Russians are trying to jam this through and make it happen through pure positive thinking and momentum," said Sam Heller, a fellow at the Century Foundation who studies Syria.
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Across Fifth Avenue, at 1 West 29th Street, is the Colonial-era Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking," was the senior minister for 52 years.
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The problem is that the EU has said it will not renegotiate, and Johnson's plan to break the impasse primarily relies on ideas the EU has already rejected and the power of positive thinking.
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She credits positive thinking as the driving force behind her happiness, and I'm not one to turn down advice from someone who both sang at the pre-Super Bowl and is dating A-Rod.
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"Every day you are inundated with an over-exposure of advertising and mainstream media, social media and endless comparisons, distorting the truth and trying to manipulate the power of positive thinking," he told them.
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He has, thanks to the power of positive thinking and a heap of determination, finally proved that he belongs — and not just in the N.B.A., but with the most feared team in the league.
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Fighting in Brazil—away from the prying eyes of stateside athletic commissions—Belfort usually deflected post-fight questions about TRT in favor of talking about the power of positive thinking and giving daps to Jesus.
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People like Cyrus Teed and Father Divine were only the most zealous exponents of America's unofficial national faith: a spiritual smorgasbord of positive thinking, seasoned by the eclectic 19th-century movement known as New Thought.
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Domesticated by celebrity pastors like Norman Vincent Peale, apostle of positive thinking (and Donald Trump's childhood pastor), New Thought became the bedrock of the modern Prosperity Gospel, the capitalist catechism of the New Gilded Age.
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In a land of winners and losers, where life is acknowledged to be unfair and positive thinking is all-powerful, we often find fault (or solace) not in our social structures but in our stars.
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Sure, some of Williamson's beliefs are problematic, including her history as an anti-vaxxer (a position she recently tried to clarify) and her teachings that those who are fighting disease could cure themselves with positive thinking.
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In conversation, they can overdo it on the power of positive thinking, but no matter how unrealistic their optimism seems or how outlandish their dreams sound, resist the urge to burst their bubble at all costs.
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Think of this cocktail as part of your training regimen for spring and summer—overcome all of your Joy Division-y wintertime doom and gloom with the power of positive thinking, and a lot of alcohol.
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The track starts out sounding like an elegy, but only for its first 20 seconds; then it speeds up to become a dance track, turning to positive thinking and a focus on the here and now.
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He believed in the power of positive thinking, in bucking up; he counseled action, and not just philosophizing, in the face of uncertainty; he may have even, from time to time, turned his frown upside down.
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As Neu explains, the initiative tries to cover a whole spectrum of methods of contemplative practices — that includes breathing, mindfulness, positive thinking, and exercise like yoga — rather than just one, which she says makes DeStress Monday unique.
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Some encouraged rigorous cycle-charting, others proposed affirmations and positive thinking, and a few acknowledged that "older women" (I quickly learned that in fertility terms, this means wizened crones over 34) might need to see a doctor.
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But to deny the hereditary, biological component to some patients' mental health is to perpetuate the myth that mental illness is a phase, or something you can will your way out of with positive thinking and therapy.
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Confucius' sentiment about happiness has echoed through history in books such as "The Power of Positive Thinking" and recent research in cognitive behavioral therapy, which seeks to help people see the connections between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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The lavender and geranium oils from this kit offered me the highest level of chill, while the frankincense and lemon helped me lean in to some uncharacteristically positive thinking that can be so elusive during the holiday season.
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The hope this disturbing novel eventually offers is as perverse as its wacky despair: an absolute refusal by a few, or many, California weirdos — particularly the graduates of positive-thinking workshops — to accept the end of the world.
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Like Norman Vincent Peale before her, Byrne combined a literal interpretation of select verses from the Christian Bible—notably Matthew 21:22, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, ye shall receive"—with the acquisitive gospel of positive thinking.
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It's the philosophy at the forefront of his attitude, that allows for an oscillation between love and hate, one that predates influencer culture, shiny aphorisms and most importantly the backlash against positive thinking with regards to mental health.
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Holmes is filming The Secret, based on the book of the same name which focuses on the power of positive thinking, while Foxx is also in town filming an untitled sci-fi thriller for Netflix with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Over the years, I've come to believe that the only real post-sesh salvation is a course of sleep, exercise, and positive thinking—that if you spend three days jamming intoxicants into your face, you should expect some retribution.
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The Cardi of this concise and purposeful album is as confident on the breezy trap anthem "Drip" (featuring Migos, which includes her fiancé, Offset) as on the power-of-positive-thinking sermon "Best Life," featuring sermonizer Chance the Rapper.
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But sleep requires calm and, unfortunately, trying to outwit anxiety by the many so-called sleep solutions—positive thinking, essential oils, counting backward—isn't always effective, Serin tells me, because the brain just won't shut off the stress switch.
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Though, in what is perhaps a sign of innate world weariness, it feels necessary to resist this tide of positive thinking and maintain a healthy level of scepticism, Fernandes' optimism and ebullience wash some of our subliminal reservations away.
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We really do want to believe in the American dream or in the fantasy that everything could be solved through individual measures, through self-care, through techniques of magical thinking, the power of positive thinking, or whatever it might be.
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He grew up attending the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, which was presided over by the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, the author of one of the all-time bestselling self-help books in American history: The Power of Positive Thinking.
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Some of what was interesting to me in reading your work around this are the ways that corporations who may have a role in causing breast cancer benefit from making it a problem of not enough positive thinking, instead of carcinogens.
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This practice could be seen as the natural outgrowth of Norman Vincent Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking," one of the young's Trump's favorite books, which advised readers to show the world that they were optimistic and successful, even when they were not.
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The fetishization of work and the increasingly long work week, self-help individualism and the power of positive thinking, the inspirational entrepreneurial success story, the nightmarish system that underlies and exacerbates these horrors — More Songs About Buildings and Food predicted it all.
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Grand Tapestry's set veered among Indian classical duets by Mr. Khan and Salar Nader on tabla; rock-ish instrumentals with Mr. Nader on trap drums instead; and, most promisingly, the rapid-fire, positive-thinking raps from Eligh backed by the two musicians.
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Its lineup is, by and large, a straightforward assortment of what's current, overground and generally full of positive thinking: pop, hip-hop, electronic dance music and rock, along with a handful of performers who got their start back in the 20th century.
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The pastors met stateside a few days later in New York City, without Graham, but with Norman Vincent Peale, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" and pastor of the Marble Collegiate church (where Donald Trump attended) as the face of their coalition.
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If I stated that I was suffering from a serious and debilitating disease, such as cancer, and that I was going to cure that disease with only will power and positive thinking, most people would look at me like I was crazy — and rightfully so.
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Many of the happiness researchers and experts I spoke with sidestepped the issue of sadness, or insisted that being unhappy just wasn't necessary, because anybody could beat down those bad feelings if they were willing to do the work of meditation and positive thinking.
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"This new study on stroke fits with older literature, which looked at optimism in terms of how people cope with illness," said Dr. Alan Rozanski, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai, who has studied the role of positive thinking in disease prevention and recovery for years.
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People have debated whether a cancer patient's attitude could influence recovery for years and though scientists haven't found any concrete evidence linking positive thinking and remission, groups like the American Cancer Society still encourage patients to receive emotional support through therapy and relaxation for improved mental health.
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His nights at The Loft (and the future club nights he inspired the likes of Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles and a whole host of positive-thinking party planners to create) were life-affirming events for those who were told elsewhere that their lives didn't mean anything.
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It's far more true, however, to say that the same cultural forces that led to the prosperity gospel's proliferation in America — individualism, an affinity for ostentatious and charismatic leaders, the Protestant work ethic, and a cultural obsession with the power of "positive thinking" — shape how we, as a nation, approach politics.
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The experiment is being conducted by Adam Pritzker, a positive-thinking spritelike 250-year-old scion of the billionaire Hyatt hotel family, and Vanessa Traina, the famously chic 260-year-old daughter of the romance novelist Danielle Steel and stylist/consultant/BFF of designers like Joseph Altuzarra and Alexander Wang.
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Since the mid-1970s she has devoted her work to an unsparing examination of what she viewed as the self-involvement of her professional, middle-class peers: from their narcissism and superiority in Fear of Falling and Nickel and Dimed to their misplaced faith in positive thinking in Bright-Sided.
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In a particularly surprising episode, Santos uses a famous Olympic experience that champion swimmer Michael Phelps had to endure as an example of why positive thinking can actually hold us back, and how negative thinking, or at least imagining the worst possible scenarios for an event, can help us achieve success.
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"In many forms of pop psychology, you are told to blame yourself because you could have everything, you could be on top of the world and you just haven't focused, you haven't worked hard enough," says Barbara Ehrenreich, bestselling author of Bright Sided: How The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
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The religious right, powered by Falwell's preaching and the efforts of individuals like Norman Vincent Peale (the originator of the Power of Positive Thinking mindset that championed the prosperity gospel and inspired the likes of Donald Trump, whom Peale knew and whose first wedding he officiated) turned poverty into a symbol of godlessness.
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It's a trope that has been part of the American cultural landscape since the days of New Thought (a 19th-century belief that you could attain success by imagining it) and the ministry of Norman Vincent Peale, whose sermons on "power of positive thinking" brought him thousands of adherents from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
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" Critic's take: "The idea that a lack of self-confidence can be essentially bootstrapped away — that all we need to combat oppressive forces is the power of positive thinking and a flattering lipstick — is an exhausted, false fairy tale, one peddled by (among others!) self-help books, beauty companies and, disappointingly, movies like this one.
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The idea that mental illness is a problem people could solve through the power of positive thinking or "going for a walk outside" incorrectly places fault on the individual, and pushes the myth that, with the right amount of self-care and sunny self-talk, pristine mental health is attainable for all of us.
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A Wussy: Getting Better (Shake It) The Queen City Five begin this Record Store Day EP with a reading of the underappreciated Beatles classic in which Lisa Walker—her voice always calm, sometimes sweet, occasionally detached—takes Paul's positive-thinking lead, John's background harmonies, and also John's shocking "I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" bridge.
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For the ambitious athlete who seeks to overcome a favored foe or break through to a new level of performance, the right attitude to overcoming obstacles is laid out clearly by the king of self-help books, Norman Vincent Peale, in "The Power of Positive Thinking": "Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break," Peale counsels.
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To a striking degree, the manic activity that arose from the formulation of the original Protestant ethic resembles the strange and obsessively wealth-worshipping world of latter-day evangelical faith — from the "positive thinking" gospel of Norman Vincent Peale (far and away Donald Trump's favorite religious thinker) to the self-hymning splendor of today's prosperity gospel — a vision of boundless divinely sanctioned individual success now identified with its best-known apostle, megachurch pastor Joel Osteen.
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