Is positive thinking deluded when the reality of a situation is not so positive?

If so and you proceed with a positive mindframe, how can anything you undertake have any meaning outside of that false mindframe?

Would honesty not be the best policy?

Well I’ll tell you right up front—I am either the worst person in the world to ask this question, or the best.

Hi Stephen

I guess this matter comes down to what you take as positive. When I was a child I was very anxious and fearful, and thought I would lose people. I never made the logical connection though between my thoughts and reality until I watched the secret 2 or 3 years ago. Once I watched it I began to recognize why my life manifested the way it did because of my predominant beliefs and thinking patterns which influenced my actions and the way I fit into the world.

What I'm trying to get at is that any situation is a perceptual event. There is the situation but to anyone it only exists as a picture in their minds. No one is actually the situation. For instance, a person is driving to the airport and is in a car accident. At first he and people driving by view the accident as a negative thing. Now, this person misses his flight and is dissatisfied but later that night he flips on the tv and notices a report about a plane crash which happened to be his. Now, suddenly his perception of the car accident changes and he views it as a Godsend. What I mean to get at is that there is no "one correct mind frame" or "false mindset" everyone's perspective is equal it's always a perceptual event. If you want to look more into this look into albert einstein's theory of relativity.

For instance, you may view the aid's epidemic in africa as a negative thing and let it deflate your mood, make you you frustrated and eat up your energy. Or you may choose to look at it in a positive light, as the perfect opportunity where you can become active in making it better. Perhaps, you can donate, or volunteer, or go get a pHD in retroviruses so you can help find a cure.

You may hurt someone's feeling and feel guilty and hurtful and hold yourself in shame and not forgive yourself. Or you could recognize that as a human being you are prone to making mistakes and as long as you try to make amends and apologize, well that's more than enough to forgive yourself.

You may find that making mistakes is enough reason to dislike yourself temporarily, or love yourself unconditionally irregardless of your flaws.

From my own personal experience, once I began to start trusting the world more and viewing things in a positive light. Believing that I am deserving of good things and a satisfactory life, my life began to change. Those things I started to think I was worthy of began to effortlessly appear in my life. And I know this all sounds very hard to believe and whimsical like a disney movie. But, let me assure you. I'm a very scientific person having received my degree in molecular biology and I'm currently a medical student, my entire life I've been taught to not believe something unless it's physically testable and reproducible.

But I have tested this theory of positive thinking, visualization, and the law of attraction, for myself over and over during the last 2 years, it has worked over and over again. Every time (without doubt or fear the key is you have to be able to believe it) I just trusted something good was going to happen or visualized something good happening it did. And every time I had negative thoughts about things, and worried, and was scared, I matched with events in my life that were negative. You are your thoughts, your beliefs your soul, we attract what we are.

What you believe is what you get IMO. Good luck man. Hope this helps.