The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed

The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes

In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren't urged to think positive thoughts.

The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治療) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them

Forcing a person to think positive thoughts may lower their self-esteem.

A hand-written note to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts.

Each session has a theme, and participants are given a variety of materials and prompts and asked to cover surfaces with their thoughts and art.

If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate your thoughts, they should be a breeze.

Traditional CBT is considered an effective form of talk therapy for depression, helping people challenge negative thoughts and change the way they think in order to change their mood and behaviors.

People who do not have access to a good listener may not only be denied the opportunity to heighten their self-awareness, but they are also denied valuable feedback as to the validity and acceptability of their inner thoughts and feelings.

And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

However, may studies have found that feelings and thoughts don't necessarily predict behavior.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term "workplace telepressure" to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.

Some researchers have suggested that thoughts cannot properly be seen as purely internal.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.