It is my assumption that you have tried positive thinking and you have found it short lived, exhausting and difficult to maintain. Whenever you try to think positive and it feels like an effort it is because you're trying to convince your self of some thing you don't really believe.

 

I don't practice positive thinking; positive thinking is a natural unconscious side effect of following the principles in the book. No effort is involved; my mind selects the most appropriate constructive thoughts to deal with life and its challenges automatically. If you have to try to think positively every day it means that there are some things set up somewhere in your psyche that are not constructively working for you.

 

The Principles of Life book helps you find those things and eliminate and replace them with newer wiser thinking patterns so that you no longer have to try and think positively. It is just a way you now think.

 

Probably like most of you I tried the positive thinking theory but found it exhausting. Instead I just dismiss my negative thoughts using Thought Re-training and I feel positive because of that. Positive thinking becomes normal when you live by the principles in the book.