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Enjoy Allison Graham's guest blog here. :)   How "Positive Thinking" Made Me Miserable. When I started my decade of hell, before I would have considered myself a Resiliency Ninja, I had a very different opinion of what positive thinking meant. I thought it meant seeing everything through rose-colored glasses and spewing sunshiny messages about how incredible life was every where I went. The problem was, life wasn't rosy, at times, it was black. My business was on rocky ground, my body was screaming for me to stop and my resentment was being forced down into the depths of my soul, ready to erupt at any moment. Meanwhile, I'd picked up this notion that I should be happy and positive all the time and anything less than that meant I was failing myself and society's expectations. The essence behind positive thinking – in it's misunderstood form, which is often shared in the personal-development industry - is that if you just think positively and speak no ill-will then everything will be, or become, positive.