Like Lewis, Azzopardi seems newly receptive to positive thinking.
Systems to improve patient safety, such as checklists, are only effective when implemented within a receptive and positive safety climate.
Many consider pregnancy to be a "teachable moment" [ 39], when women are potentially receptive, and positive towards opportunities to improve not only their own health and wellbeing, but that of their unborn baby [ 40].
The general public who already accept personal expenses for their own well-being and fitness might be more receptive to positive messages rather than being warned constantly on the dangers of fat, salt and sugar.
Mothers with higher education were more likely to have well-informed infant feeding decisions and were more receptive to positive health messages including the benefits of breastfeeding [ 23, 71].
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently told reporters she was "quite encouraged at the positive, receptive responses we've been getting" to requests for help in accepting Guantánamo detainees.
Specifically, results demonstrate that physicians with high openness to experience scores were more receptive to the positive impacts of change on overall job satisfaction.
By contrast, any seasoned salesperson will describe a receptive and sales-positive customer in the following physical and emotional terms: relaxed, warm, focused, high-trust, and, indeed, happy.
You need to be receptive to both kinds, positive and negative, and learn to accept feedback that's intended to improve your performance, your work, or your path.
Your conscious mind is more receptive to a single positive word than it is to an "I am... .. affirmation.
