Positive thinking exercises work with out the negative, but you can't process something just by stating a happy thought. This is also the fight a writer like me is often doing while writing. To reconcile the negative with the positive and empowering the positive realistically and honestly in the end. Then another evolution will hit since life is always going through some messy moments. I can't change the messy factor but I can control through sincere efforts the beautiful results I am looking for. SOMETIMES in doing so reach the hearts of others, we all are.