Joanne Smith argues that positive thinking alone fails because thoughts aren't facts, they're predictive processes. Repeating affirmations doesn't change the deeper emotional state that actually governs what you believe. Real change requires addressing underlying feelings, not just surface-level statements.
So they think it doesn't work, they lose all hope, like, oh, nothing happened, I expected a really great thing and nothing changed. And again, expectations need to be realistic at the same time. So it's nothing to do with you not being positive, okay, and not having positive thinking, because you can have it. It's not about, like, purely positive thinking, because if you're able to understand thinking for what thinking is, that's like really jumping to the root. Because the thought is there to protect us too, and if we're able to understand it for what it is— it's part of the, the prediction— then we know that it's not a truth. So So the problem is that deep down you're just not going to believe it, and it's more of a feeling than something that you can say to yourself or just doing this positive thought kind of thing.
