Positive Thought

You know the times when you feel really crap about yourself? Like the days when you go clothes shopping and nothing fits, or you get a rejection letter from a job you went for. Then there's the day you bump into an old school friend, who is now so attractive and sickeningly successful that it makes you feel like you've wasted your life in comparison. When you eventually get home on these days from hell, all you want to do is hide under your duvet and never come out again. But there is a way to make yourself feel a bit more optimistic about yourself. Even if you've put on several stone recently, lost your job and feel you have nothing to live for, ...  Read the complete review

When Jill Murphy invited me to write about my favourite things, it was so hard to pick just one. I think my favorutie thing is daydreaming. Even though I dream of winning the lottery and having a Posh and Becks lifestyle, I do wonder if I would be happy. I think we need the dreams to keep us going, sometimes reality can be such a shock to the system. The rich people in life seem to have so many troubles in life. They get depressed, take drugs, become alcoholics and marry 300 times. Maybe my little world is far better after all. I think winning the lottery would take all my dreams away from me, it would be as if there was nothing left to wish ...  Read the complete review

Throughout most of my student life, I was also a part-time barman in a club in the centre of town. One Christmas, when everyone I knew had gone home to their families and the delights of parental cooking, I stayed in Manchester to work. My boss had offered me full-time status and, crucially, pay, over the festive season and I wasn't in a position to decline. Then came news that a living legend from the dance fraternity was doing a six hour set at an all-nighter. I briefly weighed up the ignominy of going clubbing by myself against the chance to see him DJ live, and bought my ticket. As it turned out, I had a storming night which made it all the worse when it ...  Read the complete review

One of the biggest personal problems I have had to overcome in life is dealing with anxiety and depression. My warning signals for an attack of either is that my thought patterns gradually change from general head ‘business’ (which I think is my natural state of mind) to crippling thought patterns that can lead me literally into hell. My inner demons take up the shreds of my personality and weave them into a gibbering wreck too afraid to go out, too paranoid to accept the hand of friendship and so forceful they can make me believe that I have no future to hope for or aspire to. I become a mere shadow of myself – something that cannot think, has trouble ...  Read the complete review

Having read through most of the opinions in this sub category I soon realised that very few have related this to the main category, which is complementary health and is generally concerned with alternative therapies and medicines. I have decided to write this opinion because while there are certainly benefits in ‘positive thinking’ it does have what you might call a darker side. On the one hand it may seem a relatively easy self help therapy but on the other it might be seen as another aspect of the modern religion of consumerism – seriously egotistical – it promotes the philosophy of I want therefore I can have. Positive ...  Read the complete review