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Why You Must Avoid Negative Thoughts…

Do you have any idea how detrimental negative thinking is not only to your mental and emotional world, but also your physical world?

Simply put, negative thinking is destructive and it’s essential to avoid negative thoughts as much as possible. These thoughts put a damper on the way we see life in general and the way we view ourselves and others, specifically. For many, it paves the way for a life of depression and anxiety and distances us from loved ones who’d just rather not be around us. I know I don’t like to be around negative energy…

Negative self-talk is the worst. It limits what you can do and forces you to pre-label yourself as a loser. You stop taking chances and constantly set yourself up for failure.

Positive thoughts, in contrast, promote happiness, good health, and result in positive outcomes, while negative thinking produces unhappiness, depression, frustration, and an overall defeatist attitude. Hence, when you avoid negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones, you’ll find yourself on the road to leading a happy and healthy life. But it’s not always so easy to avoid negative thoughts, especially for those who’ve always had a defeatist attitude.

The first step to avoiding these gloomy thoughts is identifying them. It’s necessary to begin by listening to yourself. Think about how you view your life and journal your feelings whenever possible. This will allow you to identify the triggers of negative thoughts – school, family conflict, relationship problems. As you become more and more aware of these bad thoughts and why they happen, you can be cognizant about replacing them with more appropriate self-talk or attitudes.

A simple example might be how you react when you’re not feeling well. If you have a pain in your knee, instead of saying, “My knee hurts again”, simply dwell on the fact that the rest of your body is in good condition and that you feel well otherwise. If you get a C on a particularly test, instead of chastising yourself for being “dumb”, dwell on your other good grades and think about all the things you do well.

All this doesn’t happen immediately. It takes practice to avoid negative thoughts and turn from being a negative thinker into a positive thinker. You might even consider helping yourself along by reading some of the world’s greatest positive thinking books, like Normal Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, a true classic, or 1001 Reasons to Think Positive by Ella Patterson.

At the end you that day, you have one life to live. You can decide what to focus on positive or negative. The choice is yours. One thing is for sure, positive thinking ALWAYS produces better results.

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