Overcoming 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 destroy 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.

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.

# 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?

# Simple Tips to Overcome Negative Thinking:

• Every time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, replace the thought with a positive one.
• If you catch yourself visualizing failure, visualize success instead.
• If you hear yourself using negative words in your conversation, switch to positive words.
• 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.
• 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?
• Allow more positive attitude into your life. Have more faith in yourself and expect positive results.
• 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.