Ellis wrote: ‘You can positively tell yourself, “I can accomplish anything I want!” But, of course, you can’t. You can enthusiastically think, “Everything will happen for the best.” But alas, it won’t … Accentuating the positive is itself a false system of belief, since there is no scientific truth to the statements that “Day by day in every way I’m getting better and better.” In fact, this kind of Pollyannaism can be as pernicious as the negative claptrap which clients tell themselves to bring about neurotic conditions.’13
