View on Positive Thoughts

The idea of positive thinking has increased over the past decade. More and more you'll hear about the idea of metaphysics & positive thinking. The idea, that what ever thoughts you put out in the world is what come back to you. So, if you believe that you will get a new job you'll get it, but if you believe you'll fail that math test, you also will. Also, its based on the idea that whatever energy you send out is what you'll get back, kind of like karma. So that means if you think happy thoughts you'll have a happy life, & vice versa. Its hard to determine really, if this is a valid point.

Personally, I can't figure out how I feel about positive thinking. Its a nice idea that if you think happy thoughts good things will happen to you but I don't think this is always true. Things like The Secret have become more & more popular over the last decade, & people like my mother have run to buy it & force fed it down the "less happy" peoples throats. All based on the idea, that her boss has a big house because he sends out positive thoughts about it, not because he's a dentist or has had a sucessful practice for 20years, because he thinks he deserves it. Right... To me that sounds like a lot of nothing to spend your money on to learn.

More and more life coaches & motivational speakers are trying to harvest the idea of positive thinking. A lot of these motivational speakers not only try to push positive thinking on to you, but also the idea that all sadness you feel is unnatural. Or that your sadness is just your ego talking & you should relinquish all wants you have to find happiness, or so says speakers like Depak Chopra. How could sadness, a natural emotion we should feel if not a serial killer, suddenly just as unnatural as being desensitized? This is just another belief being pushed due to the positive thinking movement. A movement that though it is finally getting some much needed attention & reserach isn't as founded as it would like to make you believe.

So over the past decade there has been a crazy increase in the number of people talking about the ideas of positive thinking. More and more research is popping up all over the place & people are running to it open arms. While I think there might be some substantial evidence for it, I don't think its properly researched & proven. Also if I think positively that maybe all the people who have been shoving it down my throat will just leave me alone, why can I not escape it everywhere I go?? The idea of positive thinking is to me just that, an idea & not a very good one either.