Cultivate the Positive

Cultivate the Positive
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Marilyn Murray Willison
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Sixty-five years ago, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale revolutionized the publishing world with his enormously popular book “The Power of Positive Thinking.” Fifty-one years later, the equally popular book and video “The Secret” proposed the same argument: that focusing on the things that we want (i.e., being positive or optimistic) can pay big dividends.

Some people have interpreted this attitude as meaning that tangible material items (a bigger home, a new car, etc.) will come their way if they just focus on that object long enough and hard enough. But new studies indicate that the major benefit of thinking positively has less to do with our assets than our immune system.

Marilyn Murray Willison
Marilyn Murray Willison
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Marilyn Murray Willison has had a varied career as a six-time award-winning nonfiction author, columnist, motivational speaker, and journalist in both the U.K. and the United States. She is the author of The Self-Empowered Woman blog and the award-winning memoir “One Woman, Four Decades, Eight Wishes.” Her website is MarilynWillison.com
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