Positives, optimism, happy thoughts.
Her positive energy, optimism and integrity inspired us all.
Kashdan bobbed around the room or sat, legs dangling, on his desk beneath a big PowerPoint slide that said "The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness" as he took the students, a few older than he, through the various building blocks of positive psychology: optimism, gratitude, mindfulness, hope, spirituality.
"We need to build the positive -- optimism, hope, good emotions, and meaning and purpose -- to dial our lives into the positive, which, let's face it, is where we all want to be".
Even a little bit helps: Taking time to count one's blessings just once per week was shown to increase positive emotions, optimism and wellbeing.
Pushing this trend is the Romney campaign, which has abandoned its positive, American optimism campaign for a sharper contrast with Gingrich.
The participants in this study highlighted the importance of positive thinking, optimism and self- efficacy which is supported in Yarcheski et al. [ 63] study of important predictors of positive health.
The three components were subsequently named distress (feelings of shock and fear), positive approach (optimism and a fighting spirit) and nonacceptance (denial) that explained 25, 13 and 10% of the variance respectively.
Afterwards, we attempted additional searches using various combinations that included the following key words as well: positive outcome, optimism, breast cancer diagnosis, social support, decreased mortality, confounding variables, patient autonomy, patient support, disease recovery, social networks, quality of life, beneficial effect, survivors.
