Countering Negative Thought Patterns

If you’re dealing with a bad habit of dwelling on negative thoughts, or distorted memories, or some particular instance that you’ve blown out of proportion and turned into a recurring loop, understand you are certainly NOT the only person to ever fall into this mental trap... Here is some perspective and insight on countering negative thought patterns.

Here is why you do not need to be bothered by them….

If…. You have gone through everything logically, addressed your thoughts up and down with brutal honesty in a conscious way….

Then… You do not need to worry about your thoughts or negative perceptions in a way that effects you, your mood, your feeling, and most importantly your beliefs about yourself…

But i have the negative thoughts… Its me who has them, and since i am a thinking being, it must be my fault!?

“It’s me alone who’s going through this, i must be screwed up, it must mean im a bad person...“

Your thoughts are not always true. They are not always rational. They are not real.

Surely, you can understand that?

The fact is that your brain is the most incredibly powerful thing on this planet... This negative thought pattern can happen for a number of reasons... It doesn’t really matter why, and it is pretty much a fruitless exercise trying to figure out the exact cause, you may never know. Perhaps you bumped your head on the headboard one night while you were asleep and that effected the part of the brain that doesn’t allow you to let go of these thoughts... Who knows. What matters is what you can and will do about it.

Sometimes you have to be active with your mind, and control your consciousness, but know that you can control them. Especially understand, that you are not the only person who has ever gone through this kind of a battle in your mind.

There is nothing wrong with you.

I’ll save any long drawn out step by step “process,” or any psycho babble...

EIther replace the negative thought with some other thought so that every-time you think of it, you can automatically think of something else, or get to the core of how stupid the thought actually is... Laugh at it, and let it go.

You’ll be fine. Let it go. Enjoy your life again. You deserve it. I promise.