Gill Hasson - Positive Thinking Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Happy and Successful Life

Gill Hasson

This edition first published 2019.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hasson, Gill, author.

Title: Positive thinking pocketbook : little exercises for a happy and successful life / Gill Hasson.

Description: Hoboken : Capstone, 2019. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018046260 (print) | LCCN 2018052956 (ebook) | ISBN 9780857087515 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9780857087409 (ePub) | ISBN 9780857087546 (paperback) | ISBN 9780857087515 (ePDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology) | Positive psychology. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / General.

Classification: LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | LCC BF637.S4 H368 2019 (print) | DDC 155.2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018046260

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato

Is it true that if you can change your thinking, you can change your life?

Yes. It's true.

Anything and everything can be explained in both positive and negative ways. Negative thoughts interpret ideas or events in a pessimistic way and can cause you to get stuck in feelings such as fear, anxiety, disappointment, guilt and resentment. Positive thoughts, meanwhile, can positively influence how you feel and how you respond to situations. In a range of situations and circumstances in your life, positive thinking encourages you to feel capable and optimistic.

A couple of years ago I wrote a book titled Positive Thinking: Find happiness and achieve your goals through the power of positive thought. A number of people got in touch to tell me how much they'd gained from the book; that one way or another, they could see how learning to think positively would be a game changer for them that positive thinking could effect a significant shift in their current way of doing and thinking about things and change their lives for the better.

Readers said that they particularly liked the practical activities and exercises, tips, techniques and strategies. This book, Positive Thinking Pocketbook includes many of those activities and exercises, tips, techniques and strategies.

It's the fourth in my series of Pocketbooks. Just like the others, with Positive Thinking Pocketbook you can, as one reader wrote dip in and out of it and read a page any page at a time, so there's none of that discipline needed to sit down and read a whole book properly. Good for lazy people like me!

There are four parts to this book.

: Positive thinking vs negative thinking

: Positive thinking and positive action

: Making positive thinking a habit

: Positive thinking for difficult situations

explains the difference between positive and negative thinking and explains why we think in negative ways. It suggests ways to recognise and challenge negative thinking and to move on to more positive ways of thinking.

Can you achieve and get what you want in life simply by thinking positive thoughts? No, you can't. Positive thinking alone won't get you what you want; you can't just think about what you want and how you want things to be and hope to attract it. Instead, positive thinking means being proactive; in a range of situations and circumstances, positive thinking needs to be followed by positive action. The chapters in explain what you can do to turn positive thoughts into positive outcomes.

Positive thinking requires practice. The more you think and behave in positive ways, the sooner it will become your normal way of thinking and behaving. As well as suggesting positive ways to relate to other people, explains how small, simple changes to the words you use can make a big difference to the way you think they can really help you think and behave in helpful, positive ways.

So, does all this mean that if you become a positive thinker, life will always be good? No. Having a positive, optimistic outlook doesn't mean that you are always feeling good and happy. People who are positive still have worries, they still feel sad, disappointed, guilty, angry and so on. But their positive outlook prevents them from getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts and enables them to manage difficulties in a way that doesn't drag them down even further.

you'll find a range of difficult scenarios and positive helpful suggestions for managing difficult emotions, disappointments and setbacks, trauma and tragedy.

Positive Thinking Pocketbook has over 100 simple tips, techniques, ideas and suggestions for a wide range of situations where positive thinking can really make a difference. Keep this book in your bag or your pocket for whenever you need to feel more positive. You'll find that the tips, techniques, ideas and suggestions in this book really can help you think and act positively.

As the musician and singer Willie Nelson said, Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.