Are you ready for some good news for a change? Mainstream media focuses almost exclusively on the dire events of the day. How would you like to equally hear about the good news that is happening in the world?
Geri Weis-Corbley provides just that — and only that — on her Good News Network. Known as the “Good News Guru,” Weis-Corbley has been providing her “Daily Dose of News to Enthuse” for 14 years on the internet.
Unhappy focusing solely on the negative during her 10-year news career in Washington, D.C., she jumped on the opportunity provided by the internet to try uplifting people with all the stories of compassion, generosity and heroics that occur on a daily basis throughout the world.
A 2005 Bayer study found that Americans want good news and don’t get enough of it. Weis-Corbley believes reading good news is essential for everyone.
“I think it is especially important for those who may be depressed,” she said. “It’s certainly a fantastic way to keep your spirits up. But also, these days when everybody knows of the mind/body connection, we realize that we can increase our mental and physical health with a daily dose of good news — or vitamin G. You need it like a supplement when mainstream media is almost like junk food, and you get addicted to that. But if you have your daily dose of good news, than you can keep things in much better perspective.”
“Thomas Jefferson said news should be an accurate portrait of what is going on in the world. And if you always have negative news than you are not getting an accurate portrait of what is going on.”
The very day of Sept. 2008 when Wall Street tanked and Leyman Brothers collapsed, the Good News Network saw a 45% increase in readership and it stayed that way for a long time. People searched for good news because they were so depressed.
Weis-Corbley has found that just publishing good news has affected her personally.
“I am a magnet for good news,” she said. “It is almost like the law of attraction. What you focus on really does come to you. By focusing on the positive for so many years, I feel like I’ve experienced less crime, better health, and all kinds of other great things have come to me.”
On the Good News Network’s comprehensive website you’ll discover that starvation is 90% eradicated in the world, that carbon emissions in the United States have dropped for two years in a row, and that Muslims helped Coptic Christians in Egypt attend Christmas mass during terror attacks on Christians. The Good News Network is a full service news site that, in addition to inspirational stories, provides videos, music and opportunities to become involved in charitable events.
Visit www.goodnewsnetwork.org on the internet and join in the community surrounding good news on Facebook.com/thegoodnewsnetwork.
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