When you really think about it, it makes sense.
Anything really good is also possible.
Once you train yourself in the mindset of hope.
“Hope is a way of thinking,” says Chan Hellman, a psychologist who’s the founding director of the Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma. “We know it can be taught; we know it can be nurtured. It’s not something you either have or don’t have.”
Yes, there are hope researchers!
And hope is talked about in psychology and is incorporated into new therapy techniques!
“Hope begets hope, and it has such a significant protective factor.”
A protective factor against the development of chronic anxiety. Michael (2000) found that hope correlates significantly and negatively with anxiety, while also protecting against perceptions of vulnerability, uncontrollability, and unpredictability.
As psychologist and renowned hope researcher Charles Snyder et al. (2002, p. 269) stated so eloquently:
“A rainbow is a prism that sends shards of multicolored light in various directions. It lifts our spirits and makes us think of what is possible. Hope is the same – a personal rainbow of the mind.”
“The strategies of positive psychology give primacy to increasing wellbeing, rather than ‘treating’ illness.
Hope Therapy is borne from pure positive psychology. Rather than focusing on unpleasant or distressing factors, Hope Therapy techniquesincorporates positive self-talking, hopeful imagination, and connections with supportive networks (Shekarabi-Ahari, Younesi, Borjali, & Ansari-Damavandi, 2012).”
“According to Crocker (1998) hope therapy helps improve satisfaction, resilience, and levels of depression by effectively creating a positive cognitive triad; that is a positive view of yourself, of the world and of the future.”
“Furthermore, hope therapy can encourage individuals with a history of depression or unpleasant past experiences to contemplate the future in a more positive way rather than as a projection of previous experience (Santos et al., 2013).”
“Hope is more than just a simple emotion; hope is an essential life tool.”
For the resources given to therapists to help people utilize this essential life tool, you can go to this link and find worksheets, science-based activities/exercises, 4 recommended books, and a deeper dive into this psychology topic, and more:
What is Hope in Psychology + 7 Exercises & Worksheets
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