"Zahvaljujući komercijalnom izdavaštvu, tvrdnja da je za sreću i uspeh dovoljno da svaki dan pozitivno razmišljamo proširila se kao virus i danas je gotovo nemoguće razuveriti ljude u njenu proizvoljnost. Poruka zagovornika pozitivnog mišljenja glasi otprilike ovako: sve potiče iz glave, pa da biste bili zdravi, uspešni i srećni razmišljajte pozitivno, zauzmite konstruktivan stav i budite optimisti. Ako ste neuspešni i nesrećni, to je zato što razmišljate negativno i gajite pesimizam. Pri tom je teško utvrditi šta promoteri pozitivnog mišljenja konkretno preporučuju kao rešenja za savladavanje životnih problema, budući da se njihovi saveti uglavnom svode na ponavljanje autosugestivnih formulacija kao i usvajanje određenih uverenja o ličnim vrlinama i mogućnostima uspeha."

Vjesto izveden manevar na ljudsku psihu.
Svaka ptica na grani zna da sve potice iz glave,sto je sasvim realan pocetak filma "Sjecas li se D.B.".A zatim nastupi dernek gdje i pored nagog tijela zene covjek sapuce "svakog dana u svakom pogledu...".
Iz podvucenog lako se da zakljuciti kako je rijec nada vjesto kamuflirana terminoloskim izrazima psihologa.Jer nada ne postoji kao rijec kada se trazi strucan savjet.


"Rezultati su pokazali da onima koji veruju u svoje sposobnosti ovakve vrste autosugestivnog treninga nisu ni potrebne. Međutim, kod pojedinaca koji imaju nizak nivo samopoštovanja i samopouzdanja, a kojima su takvi treninzi pre svega namenjeni, nalazi su bili veoma zabrinjavajući."

Divno receno gdje covjek nema sta dodati.


"Dodatna opasnost je što se pozitivne mantre nude i kao svemoguće rešenje za sve vrste fizičkih oboljenja i kao recept za sve životne situacije: od školovanja, zapošljavanja i zasnivanja porodice, do dobitka na lutriji. Ovakav pristup može se porediti sa ekstremnim primerima nekih verskih zajednica, koje u potpunosti odbijaju medicinske usluge čak i kada je evidentno da njihov član umire, uverene da će preživeti isključivo zahvaljujući molitvi."

"ako iza misli ne stoji iskreno uverenje"

"Stoga životni stavovi nisu puka posledica odluke i nije ih moguće naučiti putem priručnika, kao ni talenat za umetnost ili nauku."

Covjek se rodi bijel i barsunast,sta ce od njega postati,koliko ce biti sposoban kroz zivot krociti pun samopouzdanja,koliko ce biti glup ili pametan,ponajvise zavisi u pocetku od roditelja a kasnije od samog sebe.

meni drugarica posalje ovu pesmicu sto je mrgi okaci.. i nabaci mi cinicni kez.. ali i cinicni kez je ipak - kez. 

Neki od tih selfhelp pokreta su postali poput neke religije  Jeste culi za tajnu 

Fazon je da verujes u sta god hoces i to ce da se ostvari, a ako se ne ostvari onda ne verujes dovoljno!    i da... ima ljudi koji se silno trude da veruju.



Ok, bitan je nacin razmisljanja. "Kakve su ti misli takav ti je zivot" Ako si neki okoreli pesimista u sve ces vieti negativne stvari i tako dalje. Ali treba biti umeren. Oni uzdizu celu tu pricu na nivo religije (sekte) i ocekuju da im se ostvare neverovatne i nerealne stvari

The Power of Placebo Goes Beyond The Mind
By Linda Carroll

Even though medical researchers told Chuck Park that he might be getting a sugar pill, the 30-year-old software producer was pretty sure he was getting the real thing. Just a few weeks into the clinical trial, Park’s depression started to lift. He began to feel less anxious and sad.

So when Park learned he’d been taking a placebo all along, it was a surprise.

“I was fully expecting to receive the real drug even though I knew that the placebo was a possibility,” remembers Park of Culver City, Calif. “I guess I wanted it to work — and in a way, it did.

For years, scientists have looked at the placebo effect as just a figment of overactive patient imaginations. Sure, dummy medications seemed to curb epileptic seizures, lower blood pressure, soothe migraines and smooth out jerky movements in Parkinson's — but these people weren't really better. Or so scientists thought.

Now, using PET scanners and MRIs to peer into the heads of patients who respond to sugar pills, researchers have discovered that the placebo effect is not "all in patients' heads" but rather, in their brains. New research shows that belief in a dummy treatment leads to changes in brain chemistry.

"There have always been people who have said that we could make ourselves better by positive thinking,” says Dr. Michael Selzer, professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “After pooh-poohing this for years, here are studies that show that our thoughts may actually interact with the brain in a physical way."

New insights into how placebos work may even help scientists figure out how to harness the effect and teach people to train their own brains to help with healing.

Mind over brain matter

Recent reports show that anticipation of relief from a placebo can lead to an actual easing of aches, when the brain makes more of its own pain-dousing opiates. Brain scans of Parkinson’s patients show increases in a chemical messenger called dopamine, which leads to an improvement in symptoms when patients think — mistakenly — that they are receiving real therapy.

And studies in depressed patients like Park have found that almost as many are helped by placebo treatments as by actual medications. In fact, as it turns out, a person’s response to placebo treatment may offer clues as to whether “real” treatments with antidepressants are likely to work.

Researchers are just starting to appreciate the power that the mind can have over the body, says Tor Wager, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University.

“An emerging idea right now is that belief in a placebo taps into processes in your brain that produce physical results that really shape how your body responds to things,” he says. “The brain has much more control over the body than we can voluntarily exert.”

The brainAs an example of this, Wager points to the body’s response to perceived threats.

“Say it’s late at night and everything is quiet and then suddenly you see someone outside, near a window,” he explains. “Your body starts to respond. Your pupils dilate. Your heart rate goes up. You start to sweat.”

The belief that something threatening is out there produces a host of physical responses that you have little control over. If you were told to calm down and turn off these sensations, you couldn’t, Wager says. “But if the belief changes — say, it turns out that it’s just your husband coming home — the physical response changes.”

The question, now, is how to tap into these powerful, unconscious responses, Wager says.

Brain waves may hold key
At the University of California at Los Angeles, placebo-treated volunteers were hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG), a device that records the brain’s electrical activity. After a week of sugar pills, the volunteers were then given either more placebos or an actual antidepressant. They weren’t told which type of pill they received.

Eight weeks later, researchers scrutinized the brain waves recorded by the EEG back when all the volunteers were taking placebos. The UCLA scientists discovered something intriguing: The people who got the most benefit from the actual medication had a specific pattern of brain waves when they were being treated with placebos.

Those results were described in a study published this month in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers haven’t figured out yet what the specific pattern of brain waves mean, but the study does show how patients might be inexpensively screened with an EEG to show doctors who is most likely to respond to antidepressant medications, says the report’s lead author Aimee M. Hunter, a research associate at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

Teaching patients to soothe themselves
Meanwhile, at Stanford University, scientists figured there must be a way to harness the placebo response to help patients soothe their own pain.

The researchers rigged up an MRI so that people could watch real-time images of their brains, while lying in the scanner. The idea was to use the images to teach study volunteers to consciously pump up activity in parts of the brain activated by the placebo effect, says Dr. Sean Mackey, associate director of Stanford’s pain management division and director of its neuroimaging and pain lab.

One of those volunteers, Laura Tibbitts, signed up for the study in hopes that she might be able to find a way to quiet the constant, permanent pain that descended after her right shoulder and arm were smashed in a riding accident eight years earlier.

“Pain is not in the muscles or the arm that may be injured,” Mackey says. “The pain is in our brains.”

A signal starts out at an injured site and travels up to the brain, Mackey explains. But, until the brain interprets that electrical signal, you don’t actually “feel” pain.

Part of what goes into the brain’s interpretation is expectation, Mackey says. “I think of the placebo response, at least in part, as a manipulation of expectancy. And perhaps by changing the expectancy and bumping up the placebo response we might be able to ultimately find a way to provide sustained therapy for chronic pain.”

Lying back in the scanner watching images of her brain, Tibbitts was told to conjure up memories of her pain on the day of the accident. Later, she was instructed to think soothing thoughts. “I imagined little people scooping away the pain, trying to rescue me,” the 32-year-old San Francisco resident says. “Or I thought about water or snowflakes putting the fire out.”

Empowering experiment
Through trial and error, Tibbitts determined which kinds of thoughts fired up and turned down the brain regions that Mackey said were linked to her pain. The mental pictures had an impact.

And the newfound control over pain levels was empowering, Tibbitts says.

“I think the most incredible thing was to see that scan of my brain constantly producing pain,” she adds. “And then to actually gain control over the pain, to see that I had that power — even when I was making myself feel worse — was amazing to me.”

Linda Carroll is a health and science writer living in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, Health magazine and Smart Money.

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Naravno opet ce se naci oni koji ce reci, ma ti naucnici su idioti. Naravno, samo oni naucnici koji njima ne idu u prilog sa svojim istrazivanjema.

Light of mind is on. Koliko god se pokusavalo ugasiti.

Ti isti naučnici su pokazali da ako zaista vjeruješ da si loš čovjek / da te drugi ljudi ne vole, oko sebe ćeš svojim ponašanjem da kreiraš situaciju / biraš ljude koje će zaista biti prema tebi negativni -- imaš veće šanse da izabereš nekog ko će te podcjenjivati, zlostavljati, omaložavati iako su oko tebe ima i gomila drugih ljudi.

I svako novo iskustvo samo služi da te ubjedi još jače u tu ideju.

E sad kad nekom sa takvim mentalnim sklopom dodas i mantru "svakoga dana u svakom pogledu sve vise napredujem" ti u stvari samo ubrazavas spiralu propasti.

On je ubjeđen da je loš, gubitnik, da ga ne vole, ali to će sve da se promjeni ako bude vrtio mantru u koju u suštini ne vjeruje - ide okolo kreira loša iskustva koja su još pojačana idejom da je gubitnik kome ni sva snaga pozitivnog mišljenja ne može da pomogne, čime se vrši još veći pritisak na psihu.

Ljudi koji zaista vjeruju - imaju samopouzdanje ili pak vjeru u nešto "veće od njih samih" ne idu okolo i ponavljaju "svakoga dana sve više napredujem", nego jednostavno žive svoj život u skladu sa samim sobom.

Meni su sve te priče oko pozitivnog mišljenja prilično pune apstraktnih pojmova. Čim se to ne može ne može izmeriti, detektovati, podložno je slobodnoj interpretaciji, u koju svako može da unese svoj subjektivni stav. Jednom kada se bude saznala potpuna fiziološka osnova mišljenja, odn. šta se dešava u našim mozgovima na molekularnom nivou, mnoge stvari će biti jasnije i moći će sa sigurnošću da se kaže u kakvoj su vezi formiranje mišljenja i ponašanje, šta od čega, kako i koliko zavisi.

Pozitivno mišljenje samo po sebi ne znači puno, ali može biti psiološki podstrek za delanje. Često sam sebi utuvljavao u glavu kako nešto ne mogu da uradim i kako je to "beyond my capabilities". Čini mi se da je ispred mene provalija koju ne mogu preskočiti, ali nekako uspem da je preskočim. Kritični momenat je aktivacija, teško je pokrenuti se i početi, osloboditi se straha od neuspeha... Što je problem koji treba rešiti veći, to je energija aktivacije veća.

Naravno, postoje i stvari gde sav trud i rad koji čovek uloži nije dovoljan, životne prepreke koje malo ili nimalo zavise od čoveka. Svaki čovek može postići više od onoga što on misli da može, ništa se ne rešava preko noći, sve je jedan proces koji traje i koji treba usmeravati u željenom pravcu.

U ljudima treba prvo tražiti pozitivne osobine i to nije lako, jer niko nije savršen i svako ima neku manu. Negativan čovek će uvek u drugima gledati prvo negativne osobine, one koje i sam (misli) da ima.

Ustvari, ne znam da li i kako pozitivno razmišljanje može pomoći u životu, da znam sada bih bio ležao ispod palme na nekom ostrvu, sa milionima na računu i desetak misica na sopstvenoj jahti i bolelo bi me uvo za sve.

Tekst nije los , ali preuvelicava mnogo.Postavlja se paralela izmedju optimistican i pozitivan a ovo pozitivan opisuje kao bolesno srecan.

Prvo treba sve raditi sa optimizmom.Sto je i normalno,jer kad radis nesto ti to radis da bi ga uradio.Optimizamje pre svega zdrav,ubija depresiju,tremu paniku.

Pozitivnost je vec osobina.Poznajem ljude koji su po prirodi veseli...pricaju viceve,smeju se,duhoviti su.Sumnjam da neki namcor moze to da iskopira.

Elem znam za ovu teoriju pogledao sam jedan od prvih njenih filmova i bio je okej,mada nisam ni tad verovao u tu pricu.Ali film je imao dobru pouku..budi optimistican,iskoristi svaku svoju priliku i daj sve od sebe.

Ali si verovao da to mozes pa si "preskocio provaliju", imao si pozitivno misljenje i delovao po njemu. Ne bi ti pomoglo da napravis milione na racunu jer je nerealno ali ti moze pomoci kod realnih stvari kao sto su obavljanje nekog posla za koji mislis da je tesko uraditi ali je moguce. Tako da samo pozitivno misljenje ima efekta, ali ne na nacin neki naucnici pokusavaju da predstave tj. "misli pozitivno i ceo svet ce ti pasti na noge". Ako se shvati kao "veruj u sebe za neke stvari" onda je i moguce ostvariti neki efekat vezan za pozitivno razmisljanje.

Btw Lighte, lep tekst o placebu i efektu na ljudski um. Lepo pokazuje neke stvari vezane za sam efekat i koliko je bitan neki put, cak i u medicinske svrhe.

Pozitivizam/optimizam je nepotreban luksuz, devijacija  na putu ka cilju koji si sebi postavio, jer pretpostavlja ochekivanje pozitivnog rezultata tvojih napora a samim time i povlachi nezadovoljstvo usled neuspeha koji je neizbezan. 

Ako bi chovek mogao da ide prema svom nekom cilju bez ochekivanja uspeha, bez da bude "reasult oriented"  verujem da bi ga to uchinilo srecnijim, a time mozda i efikasnijim u svojim naporima.