Positivity Is More Important Than Goodness, Scientifically, as Conventionally Good can be Destructive of Positivity 

Changing focus from Good and Bad to Positive or Negative is absolutley esseential to create  a future which has more positive experiences and feelings of happiness, gratitude and satisfaction than a future which has carried over  anxieties, stresss and sickness. 

“Good” and “bad” are usually defined by social rules, traditions, legal systems, and family expectations. Positive and negative experiences, however, describe what thoughts, emotions, and actions create within a person and in the surrounding environment. Something considered “good” may still carry anxiety, resentment, helplessness, or inner conflict when it is based on forced sacrifice, fear, ritual, or repeated compromise.

Positive feelings such as happiness, gratitude, forgiveness, affection, hope, and satisfaction influence facial expressions, voice, behaviour, relationships, and physiological functioning. In spiritual language, this influence may be described as a vibration spreading through the body and environment. Psychologically, it can be understood through emotional appraisal, neural signalling, autonomic activity, hormones, behaviour, and social communication.

The nervous system functions like an extraordinarily complex biological computer, continuously receiving signals from the external world and comparing them with memories, beliefs, expectations, and subconscious emotional learning. The resulting internal response may be represented metaphorically as having a negative charge (−1), a neutral or silent charge (0), or a positive charge (+1). This is  a simplified model for understanding how an external signal acquires emotional meaning inside the individual which later releases neurons and hormones that affect functioning of the body and mental health. Positivity improves mental health while negativity destroys mental and physical health. Each thought that you remember and store as a memory or expectation has  a positive or negative charge. 

A thought that appears good can therefore carry a negative internal charge. For example, helping someone while feeling forced, remaining sick because of fear, or sacrificing continuously while experiencing resentment may satisfy an external definition of goodness without creating inner positivity. The body responds not only to the words of the thought, but also to its emotional meaning, intention, and accumulated stress.

This internal charge can influence mental and physical health, motivation, relationships, decision-making, and satisfaction with life. Sustainable well-being therefore requires more than performing “good” actions. It requires deliberately generating more positive than negative emotional experiences through everyday choices.

Happiness and satisfaction should not be left to trial and error or treated as automatic rewards of money, success, or social approval. They can be developed through repeated training in gratitude, forgiveness, emotional regulation, meaningful effort, mindful awareness, constructive relationships, and working with manageable rather than continuously overwhelming stress.

Positive feelings multiply when they are repeatedly practised and connected with daily life. More socially defined goodness does not automatically create more positivity, but more consciously generated positive experience can strengthen inner balance and improve how people respond to others.

Reframing “good versus bad” as “positive versus negative experience” shifts attention from judgement to intention, emotional impact, and consequences. This may help individuals and societies recognise hidden distress, reduce resentment and aggression, resolve conflicts more thoughtfully, and build the sustained happiness necessary for healthier relationships and fewer wars.

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