Mauro Libi Crestani: The positive thinking effects

Norman Vincent Pearl in the 1950's wrote a book on positive thinking effects on your life in so many ways. He claimed that it would bring one more happiness and more success. He wrote that you could not be successful unless you believed that you had the ability to succeed. That positive thought created positive results. 
The belief of positive thinking was met with a lot of controversy. Many believed that it was a type of self hypnosis. They believed that if a situation was bad or negative then you had a bad situation and that thinking positive was being delusional. They believed that you have to accept the facts for what they are. Thinking positive will not change anything. 

Norman Vincent Pearl was not the first to believe that positive thinking can make real changes. Thousand of years ago in India, The Sulta of the Golden Light believed that negative thought was the delusion. There was the belief that bad health, poverty, misery, affliction, abuse, ill will and all things negative came from this delusion. They taught a belief in how to control this negative thought. The belief was to get control over your mind with meditation and your body with yoga. You needed to take care of your body and your mind. That you had full control. 
The Indian ancient philosophy was the opposite of the critics of Mr Pearl. Mr Pearl's critics were that a positive attitude was a fraud, a denial of the true world and situation. The Sulta taught that negative thought was the delusion. That the true situation was positive. If we could just get rid of all the negativity then success was inevitable.

If we could control our thoughts, our anxiety and all our excuses why we need to fail, then we will be able to see that we have the power to succeed. It is in us all, it is the real reality. It's the negativity that stops us from believing and stops us from going forward on the path to success. Once we get rid of the reason that we create for us to fail, then success will happen.