^ Your assumption there is that everybody who has gone through trauma is negative? Alternatively, that those who are positive are those who are inexperienced and that life is actually bad, positive people just don't know it yet? Ignore the question of SR/IM.
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And he said:
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." Sounds fairly positive and optimistic to me.
I personally spent many years being bullied, to the point of physical fights, but I'm still quite positive. I will not elaborate on the other crap in my life, but it includes a sister with scholisos and chronic iron deficiency (kinda need that to live), and much other stuff.
Let me suggest a different theory:
You have a certain belief about the way the world is. You, being human, also fall prey to confirmation bias and find things in the world to support your beliefs, so that your beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Change your beliefs, even if physical reality won't change, your experience of reality will change. My beliefs make me very happy. My physical results are also improving every day.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...ering-beliefs/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...ering-beliefs/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/200...ctive-beliefs/