<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a4c41c94-09db-4b4a-bc14-9fa88466ad1d/D6D4B388-ADB4-4E2A-8868-94019C2ADF5F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking">Quick fixes often make the underlying problems worse. Letting go of the desire for self-improvement is the answer</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/A6DF93ED-6185-45DE-A63C-E14B8CB8A701" alt="ed" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking">"Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful". So wrote <A title="Wikipedia: Norman Vincent Peale" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale">Norman Vincent Peale</A>, author of the 1952 bestseller, <A title="Amazon.co.uk: The Power of Positive Thinking" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Positive-Thinking-Norman-Vincent/dp/0749307153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1247166005&amp;sr=8-1">The Power of Positive Thinking</A>. Peale's prescription for contentment has been regurgitated and recycled in thousands of self-help books over the past half-century, but despite a never-ending avalanche of sales, the alluringly simple "think happy-be happy" formula hasn't made much of a dent in mental suffering</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking">Now, a <A title="Interscience: Positive Self-Statements" href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122399441/abstract">study</A> published in Psychological Science confirms what many people have discovered from personal experience – not only do crude positive thinking techniques often fail, but for some they can be counterproductive</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/15/self-help-positive-thinking">the self-help gurus miss out on a crucial first step to transformation – a willingness to accept your current circumstances.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6D4B388-ADB4-4E2A-8868-94019C2ADF5F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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