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Originally Posted by Jarrod  Positive thinking is not denial, denial is more like willful ignorance whereas positive thinking is more like altering your perspective on something.
Bad and good, what is the difference? Just how you look at the situation.
Personally I think you should not see things as good or bad, rather to just see things as they are. This enables you a lot more freedom.
If 'bad' and 'good' are not in your vocabulary that nothing 'bad' could happen indeed. |
I tend to believe something like this. Positive or negative thinking to me is putting a slant or a spin on what we perceive.
I think of it this way: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to have a positive or negative opinion about what happened, what opinion gets ... well, I can't even complete the sentence because it doesn't make any sense, an opinion can't happen without a person to associate some kind of meaning to the event, to create an opinion.
Denial is very subtle. Most people wouldn't outright deny that something happened, what they deny is the consequence of it, the extent of the consequences, and whether the consequences are ultimately good or bad. See, there's that association of good or bad again, so in my mind even denial is a slant or meaning we place on something that happened or didn't happen.
So opinion becomes a tool: what positive or negative do I associate with this thing that's going on to get the consequence I want?
Whichever one works, or answers the question in the positive.