We are biased, so why not make it a consistent one

Read some of the recent psychological insights on biases and you are likely to get depressed. We are full of biases, the idea that we are rational is, well, a pipe dream. Study after study shows that we just react to our environment, consciously as well as subconsciously and we are slaves to our prior memories and cultural upbringings. So if you know that everything you do and think is biased, you might as well go all the way: assume healing and wholeness in all your dealings with people and see how your mental attitude towards them changes the environment you perceive. Love or fault, your thinking will make it so.

Reality is a choice. I might remember how a colleague undermined me at one point in my career or I might remember how he came to my rescue. You must admit, with almost everyone you have the the potential to tell both parts of the story. The Course in Miracles encourages you  to look only at the holy side of your sisters and bothers whenever you can. It is an experiment really. Assume the good if you can and see whether your positive bias gets you the results you anticipate.

I remember a conference when the group I work with experienced a big transition and morale was consequently at a low. I tried saying something uplifting and one of my colleagues followed it up by saying that trust was 'here' and he raised his arm accordingly. From that day on whenever a doubt about my colleagues or my group enters my mind I see this colleague making his arm gesture and hear his words that 'trust was there'. This is positive thinking at work, I understand that this approach is biased, very biased, but you know what, you try for yourself whether it works. In my experience it does.