Our minds have an amazing capacity to focus and conceive of a limitless array of possibilities. They can spiral toward the positive or toward the negative. When we use our minds to ponder what would make us happy, we get an advance payment in the form of good feelings. It doesn’t matter if the vision ever comes to pass because we’ve already benefited. When a fear-filled thought enters our mind, we experience the accompanying emotions as if that scenario is real. The lesson is simple: As long as we’re hypothesizing, let’s direct…

Our spirals upward.