The article presents the concept of the Russian scientist Yu.M.Orlov, sanogenic thinking as a factor of emotional well-being of a person as a special kind of thinking that leads to a reduction in suffering from negative emotions, the main function of which is the constructive regulation of emotional states of a person. From the point of view of the theory and practice of sanogenic (healing, realistic) thinking (SGM) Y. M. Orlov, emotion is an affective result of mental automatism. Negative emotions are the experience of various types of internal conflicts between expectation and reality. The discrepancy between our expectations, that is, the mental habits of attributing a predetermined behavior to another person, and the reality of communicating with him just causes unpleasant experiences. 

The theory and practice of sanogenic thinking in its main provisions overcomes the phenomenological and existential approaches to human experiences as a given and considers in it the psychic reality of mental behavior, which is experienced. This approach to understanding and therapy of emotions raises it to the level of scientific philosophy of everyday life, the comprehension of which has a huge therapeutic effect on a person. 

In numerous studies of representatives of this scientific school (S.N. Morozyuk, S.F. Marchukova, A.Y. Rudakov, Y.N. Krainova, E.S. Kuznetsova, L.A. Kananchuk, N.Y. Pavlyuchenkova, T.O. Smoleva, L.I. Adamyan, etc.), the validity of the leading idea of the concept of the theory and practice of sanogenic thinking has been proved, briefly and aptly expressed by its creator Yu. M. Orlov: "The power of thought is obvious. It creates reality".