Negative thinking appears to be more prevalent than positive thinking. It seems that with most people, positive thinking requires some effort, whereas, negative thinking comes easily and often uninvited. This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in.
If you have been brought up in a happy and positive atmosphere, there is more probability that it will be easier for you to think positively. However, If you have been brought up under poor or difficult situations, you will more probably be attracted to negative thinking.
You view the world through your predominant mental attitude. If your thoughts are positive, that is fine, but if they are negative, your life and circumstances would probably mirror these thoughts.
If you believe that you are going to fail, you will unconsciously sabotage every opportunity to succeed. If you are afraid of meeting new people or having close relationships, you will do everything to avoid people and relationships, and then complain that you are lonely and nobody loves you.
The power of negative thinking in action:
Do you often think about difficulties, failure and disasters?
Do you keep thinking about the negative news see and hear on the TV, or read in the newspapers?
Do you see yourself stuck and unable to improve your life or your health?
Do you frequently think that you do not deserve happiness or money, or that it is too difficult to get them?
If you do, then you will close your mind, see no opportunities, and behave and react in such ways, as to repel people and opportunities.
The mind often, doesn't judge or examine thoughts and opinions before accepting them. If what it hears, sees and reads is always negative, it accepts this as a standard.
The media constantly bombards the mind with a lot of information about disasters, catastrophes, wars and other unhappy events. This information sinks into the subconscious mind, and then, manifests as your habitual manner of thinking. By occupying the mind with depressing and pessimistic thoughts you radiate negative energy into the surrounding world, and therefore, create and recreate more negativity, failures and disasters.
The mind is neutral energy. The way you think determines whether the results are positive and beneficial, or negative and harmful. It is the same energy acting in different ways.
The good news is that persistent inner work can change habits of thinking. You must be willing to put energy and time to pursue positive thinking, in order to change your mental attitude.
Simple Tips to Overcome Negative Thinking:
1)Every time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, replace the thought with a positive one.
2)If you catch yourself visualizing failure, visualize success instead.
3)If you hear yourself using negative words in your conversation, switch to positive words.
4)Instead of saying, "I cannot", say, "I can". Most of the time you can, but choose to say "cannot", due to fear, laziness or lack of self esteem.
5)Do you repeat negative words and phrases in your mind? Change them to positive ones. Yes, this requires you to be more alert, and to expend some effort, but you want to change negative thinking into positive thinking, don't you?
6)Allow more positive attitude into your life. Have more faith in yourself and expect positive results. Affirmations and visualization can take you a long way in this direction.
7)Decide that from today, from this very moment, you are leaving negative thinking behind you, and starting on the way toward positive thinking and behavior.
Continuous negative thoughts generate so much tension that if nothing is done about it, can lead to anxiety disorders and other psychosomatic conditions (physical illnesses caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as stress).
Another thing to bear in mind, though, is that if you are having constant and recurrent negative and dark thoughts, it could be a symptoms of anxiety disorder which has somehow established itself. So you want to start looking at ways to kick out your anxiety. You can get my FREE Anxiety Panic Recovery Program here.
Try the below steps to overcome your habitual negative thoughts:
1. Identify and Write down Each Negative Thought.
The best place to begin is to identify your negative thoughts as they come to you and make sure you write them down. I recommend you take your top three negative thoughts – the most disturbing three and write them down. Then run them through all the steps below before moving on to other dominant negative thoughts you may have.
There is magic in writing down your thought processes.Once a thought is written down, you automatically become more powerful than that thought. It’s like there is an unseen life-force, from your mind to the paper, that sucks power out of the negative thought you are writing down, leaving you stronger, better and powerful.
2. Change The Negative Thoughts To Positive.
This is called the law of displacement. You displace dark, cruel, anxious, stressful and dis-empowering thoughts with thoughts of positivity, calm, peace, strength and hope. Just like you get rid of darkness in your room by turning the light on, you do the same when you write down the exact opposites of the negative thoughts.
Recent studies suggest that early suppression of negative thoughts can keep millions of people from developing full-blown depression. And the best way to do this is by changing those negative thoughts into positive affirmations.
For example, let’s say you can’t seem to get the thought that you will lose your job and become destitute off your mind. All you need to do is to write down the opposite of that, for example, “ I am alway in work and at every single time, more opportunities open for me than I really need.” What you are doing here is taking control of your mind. And if you say this with confidence and positive expectations, you will never run out of great opportunities that will keep you in work as long as you want. If one door closes, another one will open for you.
3. Get The New Positive Thought Registered In Your Subconscious Mind.
Your goal here is to make sure that your deeper mind accepts this new empowering thought. How do you do that? You achieve this through REPETITION. Repetition is a valuable code of the subconscious. Whatever your mind keeps hearing, it will eventually accept as truth. So what you want to do is to start repeating your new positive thoughts to yourself. Do it constantly. Do it repeatedly. Do it daily. Do it with passion, conviction and belief.
One effective way of doing this is to imagine that you are holding a volume control knob of a radio or CD player. Then you imagine turning up your new positive thoughts starting from the zero volume to the maximum volume. Make sure you let your voice also reflect the changing in the volume levels – start to say your new positive affirmation quietly as though the volume control is at the lowest level. Then get louder gradually, until you are literally shouting this positive affirmation into your own mind. Try it. It is powerful.
4. Visualise Your Positive Thought In It’s Completed State.
See yourself already in possession of the positive affirmation you have been saying. For example, if your positive affirmation is this: “ I am very confident, decisive and bold,” then start to see yourself in your imagination as being very confident, decisive and bold. Imagine those life situations that you will be finding yourself soon and visualise yourself in total control, secure, relaxed, decisive and extremely bold. Also in your imagination, see how people around you are admiring your self-confidence and a strong sense of purpose, self-reliance and personal power. I have personally found this exercise very helpful whenever I am about to do something that seems scary scary, new or challenging. It is very effective.
5. Be Persistent.
This is important, especially for those people whose negative thoughts activities have become habitual. Make sure you persist in writing down your negative thoughts and changing them to positive, and visualising them in their positive completed states. Your brain needs time to destroy the old habit wiring already in existence in your brain and then build new ones for your new empowering positive affirmations. Therefore, do not quit simply because your automatic negative thoughts seem to be increasing. Just keep on using all of the above steps and eventually those negative thoughts will start slowing down as your brain rewires itself for positivity, creativity, calm and confidence.
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