2006-07-26 16:15:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You ripped that off the featured question on the homepage. :|
2006-07-26 16:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Psychologically, that's a complicated question. So here's an ambiguous answer, in parts. (A) In a person who's grown up well-raised and well-loved, positive self-feeling will likely be a natural part of their holistic health. Therefore it's a moot issue as to whether they should try to adopt a positive feeling-state that they would already, in health and love, naturally have anyway. (B) It's pretty much been proven that positive feeling and thinking may have healing effects against sickness or disease, such as those persons with cancer who live longer when participating in cancer support groups. (C) However . . . there's reason to believe that truth is ultimately psychologically healthy -- that is, the truth of facing one's real feelings and one's real situation. Would it be healthy to blind yourself to the troubles of the world by adopting a sugary-sweet idealist attitude? Would it be helpful to bury your emotional pain -- thereby making it inaccessible to healing -- by convincing yourself your parents were "really" good people who "did the best they could" ? Many people do repress their personal truth and live in a cloud of false hope -- possibly their whole lives. That may keep them from suffering, but it may also keep them from ever knowing -- ever being -- their real self.
In general, though, it's good to find some deep (sometimes hidden and long forgotten) core of positive feeling within. Not everyone has this, I'm convinced (I'm thinking, for example, of sociopaths, who may have been born in such pain and unbondedness from mother that the "positive core" was burned out of them).
And finally, it may not work for you to brute-force a positive attitude upon yourself, when the "negative" truth (which may be the fact of pain and early mistreatment, for example) is needing to come forth and be seen and healed. If you are a person who's not that good at fooling yourself with bright-think, you may profit from the paradox of therapy -- feeling the truth of pain in a place of caring and bonding.
2006-07-26 23:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by Fred L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this page and you will see info from a top psychologist and what he is doing. It tells how he is the author of Learned Optimism and The Optimistic Child. Also info from religion. It is important to have hope. Do you want more happiness in your life?
http://phifoundation.org/happiness.html
2006-07-26 23:42:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being positive inn life is like the most important thing you can possible conceive of!
2006-07-26 23:21:18 · answer #4 · answered by BONNIE B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my partner is the most pessimistic person I know but he has successfully survived 57 years of life this way and seems to be in good health......
So I guess it depends on what kind of importance you place on it.
2006-07-26 23:19:02 · answer #5 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
extremely. look up the law of attraction. thoughts are frequencies & the law of attr. says that whatever it is you're focused on/thinking about will be drawn to you. I know it sounds kinda corny, you can't just wish you had a hot girl/boyfriend & poof there it is,it doesn't work that way. it's a lot deeper than that. anyway check it out if you want.
2006-07-26 23:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by Steph 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure! Your life will be boring and miserable if you are negative.
But if you are positive,your life will be full of hope and happiness.At least you will get the chance to be happy
2006-07-26 23:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by Jason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is.
More important to empower your Self.
Even more important to have accelerating awareness.
2006-07-26 23:58:31 · answer #8 · answered by aldiaz2wheare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jz ask urself, is it imp to be happy in life? Then u will find the ans.
2006-07-27 07:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by itsme 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋