Optimism - Positive thinking

Positive thinking is the root of optimism.  The reason the word ‘optimistic’ is used to so frequently to describe positive people is because optimism is what is visibly being shown on the outside of the framework of positive thinking.  Optimism is the external form of positive thinking.  Because positive thinking is based on an internal thought process, it must have a way to be shown externally, and that is through optimism.  There is no substance behind optimism if positive thinking is not present/

Conceptually, one of the major differences among optimism, hope, goal setting, and positive affect, is that optimistic expectancies are formed through other forces outside the self, while the others are initiated and determined through the self, while the others are initiated and determined thorough the self, just as positive thinking is.  Optimists are often seen as going through life wearing “rosy colored glasses” or living in a “very happy place”, which is somewhere else besides reality.

Optimists who are based in a strong foundation of positive thinking are simply choosing to find the positive in life.  “When most people say they are being “realistic” they delude themselves: they are simply being negative.”  Optimism is widely defined as a  tendency to expect the best possible outcomes, to dwell on the most hopeful aspect of a situation, a positive attitude that everything happens for the best, or that wishes will ultimately be fulfilled.

Positive thinkers know that bad things happen, but they have faith that everything will work out the way it is supposed to work.  They know that they are still on the road to achieving their purpose, and that is still on the road to achieving their purpose, and that is why they still are able to have an optimistic attitude.  Optimists are people who expect good things to happen to them.  Optimists who are grounded in a base of positive thinking and faith are not being naïve by expecting good things to happen to them, because they have faith that God will guide them in the right direction.  If these optimistic feelings are persistent in the face of adversity, they may be defenses against anxiety and disappointed expectations.

The optimistic bias trend of thinking involves the faulty belief that negative events are less likely to happen to optimists, or themselves, that other people.  The optimistic bias states that optimists may not take important health and medical precautions and may not cooperate fully with medical treatment, which could be health damaging or even fatal.  One reason why some people believe that an optimistic bias exists is because optimists have reported coping better with the life threatening and fatal diseases, like HIV, AIDS, and cancer, that those who are not optimistic.