Improved performance and productivity: One of the most compelling reasons to embrace positive thinking is its impact on performance. Athletes, for instance, often visualize success before competing.

Defensive pessimism is an approach in which individuals set lower expectations for specific situations to lower stress and ...

The “think positive” approach tends to make happiness solely, or at least primarily, a feeling or attitude. There’s an underlying assumption that people should be able to generate, regulate ...

Positive thinking Hollering has been working to improve and create positive attitudes in others for nearly 30 years. He’s spent 24 of those years working in schools.

By choosing to think positive, you set yourself on the path to living a more fulfilling and successful life. So start today—embrace positivity, and watch how it transforms your world.

Three Tips for Thinking Positive By Jess Long Updated on: October 23, 2008 / 2:09 PM EDT / MoneyWatch We're all agreed now, even the pathologically optimistic.

Knowing why “positive thinking” does not work relieves us of the burden of a contentious relationship with our own experience of uncertainty.

Why do the older generations always seem so stressed and overwhelmed? Here are nine benefits of positive thinking that younger generations understand better than Baby Boomers.

Bob Windsor was diagnosed with colon cancer. He's undergone a number of therapies and treatments and credits his positive ...