Negative thinking often leaves a substantial impact on the mood, motivation and energy levels of individuals. Negative thinking operates in a sequential manner with one thought leading to another and ends up making the individual feel depressed, lethargic and demotivated.
Why do negative thoughts come to mind?
Science says that they are different patterns in our mind and on its basis we find meaning in the things happening around us. In some people, this perspective of seeing the world is disturbed and it is called a cognitive errors. These cognitive errors are responsible for negative thoughts. To understand it in a better way let's take an example of a 22-year-old student who enters a library and Sit on a table. Now another student is sitting in front of him and our 22-year-old student smiled at the other student but other student didn't smile back, our student will get a thought that another student is ignoring him, he doesn't like him, Nobody loves him, he is full of failure and much more negative thoughts like this will come in his mind and ruin his whole day. If you observe this event then you will understand that how a small thing triggers negative thoughts. Negative thoughts make a chain and continue to make you feel stressed.
Side effect
• Negative thoughts can lower our energy.
• It can make us feel lethargic.
• We can also lose our motivation due to these negative thoughts.
• loss of concentration power.
• low memory power.
• Dizziness.
• Depressed.
• It can also cause overthinking in us.
How to get rid of negative thoughts.
sometimes the negative thoughts can occur in us due to some chemical imbalance in our brain. If the chemical imbalance is the reason behind negative thoughts then it can be easily treated with the use of some medicines.
Now, let us talk about what a person can do if he gets negative thoughts.
Observe your thoughts.
It is the first step to deal with the negative thoughts. Some people get so many negative thoughts daily that it becomes part of their lifestyle and sometimes they don't even realise that they are getting negative thoughts. Science also says that Identifying thoughts is tough as compared to identifying emotions. So, whenever you feel sad and depressed try to observe yourself and identify what thoughts made you sad. It is necessary to identify your thoughts whether it is positive or negative thought because negative thoughts can sometimes become a habit and it can cause so a lot of trouble in your day to day life.
Say Positive Affirmations.
How our day will go depends on how we started our day. If we start our day by thinking about negative thoughts then there are chances that our day will not go good but if start our day with positive Affirmations then this practice can help us to stay
away from negative thoughts. You can start your day with some positive affirmation.
"I am my superhero".
"I feed my spirit. I train my mind". "It's my time."
"I am whole"
"I have the power to create changes".
Sing a song
whenever your feel like you are getting negative thoughts then just start to sing a song this small thing will help you to distract from negative things. Music has a good effect on our brain it can make us cheerful and can even uplift our mood. If you don't want to sing a song then you can hear music also this thing will also help you a lot.
Realise it's fake
Studies show that most of the negative thought that we get are useless only. They just come to make us worry. If we focus on it more than ourselves then it can cause a problem for us. Negative thoughts can be lowered if we stop giving attention to them and realised they are fake.
Stay in positive company.
Our thinking is based on the five-person thoughts with whom we stay most. Now, If those persons do negative thinking then are chances that it can affect you but if you will stay with the company of a positive person then this will make you also a positive person.
Try to empty your mind.
Sometimes you have seen that your mind get continuous negative thoughts and you have no control over them. You can avoid this by emptying your mind and this can be done by taking a deep breath. Taking a deep breath is a proven technique to make the mind calm.
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