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Positive thinking was prescribed as a way to get closer to God and to do God’s work.

The human brain spends a lot of time occupied with
thoughts of things that didn’t actually happen and things that probably never will happen. But the mere fact they almost happened (or could happen) brings them into our conscious awareness, and we deliberate on them with the same kind of
fervor we give to something real.