Positive Thinking Is Bound to Crash

The danger of positive thinking is that it can blind you to the reality of the situation. Sadhguru explains how you may want to ignore the negative, but the negative may not ignore you.

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What Is Positive Thinking?

Too many people in the world are always talking about thinking." When you say "positive positive thinking, in a way you are trying to escape reality. You only want to look at one side of life while missing out the other. You may ignore the other, but the other will not ignore you. If you do not think about the negative things in the world, you will live in a fool's paradise and life will get you for it. Right now, suppose black clouds are hanging in the sky. You can ignore them, but they are not going to ignore you. When it rains, it rains. When you get drenched, you get drenched.

You can ignore it and just think everything is going to be okay it has some psychological and social relevance but no existential relevance. It will only be solace.

You try to solace yourself by moving from reality to unreality because somewhere, you believe that you cannot handle reality.

And you probably cannot so you succumb to positive thinking. You want to skip the negative and just think positive. Or in other words, you try to avoid the negative.

Whatever you try to avoid becomes the very basis of your consciousness. What you try to avoid will always be the strongest point in you, not what you pursue. Anyone who tries to eliminate one aspect of life and live with the other will only bring misery upon himself.