I know I can change a negative into a positive by just thinking about it

A near-miss on a bike can be filed two ways, and both are true. The road is dangerous. Also: the reflexes worked, and you are at the traffic lights breathing hard and entirely intact.

Reframing gets a bad name because it sounds like painting over something. It isn't. It is a second reading of facts that were always ambiguous, and the first reading — which arrived automatically, in about a tenth of a second — never had any special claim to accuracy. The thought that came first is not more honest for having come first. It is only faster.