Last time we started pulling back the curtain on the toxicity that exists in the self-help industry. Today on the Happier Approach we examine one of the most toxic ideas pushed by the industry: positive thinking.

One of the most misleading concepts that the self-help industry teaches is the benefit positive thinking – change your thoughts and stop feeling so negative! If it were that easy – if all we had to do was put on our rose-colored glasses – why are so many people still depressed, anxious and overwhelmed?

It is my theory that the self-improvement industry is selling the wrong thing. We don’t need to simply “think positively.” Instead, we need to quiet the cacophony of positive thinking messages that come our way on a daily basis--and listen in to our own inner peace.

Listen to the full episode to find out:

• How the message of positive thinking is holding us back and even harming us
• Where our belief in the positive psychology movement originated
• How research contradicts the claims of the positive psychology industry has been selling you
• And practical tools and resources that you can use in place of just “looking on the bright side'

Some of the research and resources mentioned in this episode:

• Martin Seligman, the originator of Positive Psychology
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study by Prof Brett Ford and Prof Iris B. Maus
• The Happier Approach System:  A.S.K.
• Gabrielle Oettingen
• • Her book Rethinking Positive Thinking
  •  And her W.O.O.P. system 
• Peter M Gollwitzer
• Oliver Burkeman’s book The Antidote: Happiness for People Wo Can’t Stand Positive Thinking 
• My books

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