Article: Retrain your brain to avoid negative thinking.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)

Are you a little down on your luck lately? Lots of things going wrong?

Before you place blame on black cats or a weird psychic reading, take a look at your own attitudes.

You may be the victim of your own habitual negative thinking.

Rosa, a senior in college, says she got so caught up in dwelling on a bad love affair that she wrecked her car.

"I was driving along talking to myself," she says. "I was having one of those silly imaginary conversations. My mind was on my ex-boyfriend. He'd dumped me three years ago."

She continues, "I remember thinking that maybe I was unlovable. Suddenly, I was forced off the road by another ...

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