Positive thinking is an internal process. Concepts such as optimism, perception, and self-esteem are vital ingredients in implementing positive thinking into the minds and bodies of individuals.
Optimism
Positive thinking is the root of optimism. The reason the word ‘optimistic’ is used so frequently to describe positive people is because optimism is what is visibly being shown on the outside of the framework of positive thinking. Optimism is the external form of positive thinking. Because positive thinking is based on a internal thought process, it must have a way to be shown externally, and that is through optimism. There is no substance behind optimism if positive thinking is not present.
Conceptually, one of the major differences among optimism, hope, goal setting, and positive affect, is that optimistic expectancies are formed through other forces outside the self, while the others are initiated and determined through the self, just as positive thinking is. Optimists are often seen as going through life wearing “rosy colored glasses” or living in “very happy place,” which is somewhere else besides reality.
Optimists who are based in a strong foundation of positive thinking are simply choosing to find the positive in life. “ When most people say they are being “realistic” they delude themselves: they are simply being negative.” Optimism is widely defined as a tendency to expect the best possible outcomes, to dwell on the most hopeful aspect of a situation, a positive attitude that everything happens for the best, or that wishes will ultimately be fulfilled.
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