{"id":1428,"date":"2015-05-12T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2016-02-29T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:24:45","slug":"6-ways-to-overcome-negative-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/6-ways-to-overcome-negative-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Overcome Negative Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block; float: left; margin: 8px 8px 8px 8px;\">\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- Content --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8936035152699800\" data-ad-slot=\"4739053971\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once you start entertaining negative thoughts, t&#8217;will be hard to escape or shift focus to positive ones. Is it really necessary giving enough space to such thought to breed, and to drag you down to the painful path which would only take miracle for you to escape?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At times, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?s=mind\">minds<\/a> are just been bombarded with negative thoughts of horrible things to come, and often accompanied by dreadful\u00a0reasons not to believe things is or would ever be well. What if at the end, these terrible things never happen. Imagine the wasted precious moment! It&#8217;s time to reconfigure our thinking.<\/p>\n<div class='tm-tweet-clear'><\/div>\n<div class='tm-click-to-tweet'>\n<div class='tm-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=See+the+positive+side%2C+the+potential%2C+and+make+an+effort.+%7EDalai+Lama&#038;via=PsychDon&#038;related=PsychDon&#038;url=https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/6-ways-to-overcome-negative-thoughts\/' target='_blank'>See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort. ~Dalai Lama<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=See+the+positive+side%2C+the+potential%2C+and+make+an+effort.+%7EDalai+Lama&#038;via=PsychDon&#038;related=PsychDon&#038;url=https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/6-ways-to-overcome-negative-thoughts\/' target='_blank' class='tm-ctt-btn'>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='tm-ctt-tip'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are all subjected to this act of negative thinking, but only those who know the pain it brings and its repercussion afterwards do struggle to\u00a0overcome at the very start of it. But, how easy is this? Indeed, it&#8217;s not always easy, Mind you! The\u00a0more you welcome your negative thoughts, the stronger, bigger and more destructive they become.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2011\/10\/unwanted-thoughts.aspx\">negative thoughts<\/a>\u00a0shows that\u00a0the more you are cautioned not to think of a particular thing, the harder the thought get stuck in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/mind-or-heart-which-is-which\/\">mind<\/a>.\u00a0Guy Winch, Ph.D.,\u00a0psychologist and author of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594631204\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1594631204&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=psychologyand-20&amp;linkId=ACR6RIEOOPYEE6MB\">Emotional First Aid: <\/a>Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=psychologyand-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1594631204\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong>,\u00a0relates negative thoughts to a\u00a0needle in a groove:\u00a0&#8220;As the groove gets deeper and deeper, the needle has a harder time getting out of the groove.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/how-walking-in-nature-reduces-depression\/\"><strong>How Walking in Nature Reduces Depression<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[hr gap=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, when you are lost into ruminating (rehearsing negative thoughts) or can no longer focus your attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?s=positive+thoughts\">positive thoughts<\/a> at will, then you are already on a lonely street to chronic depression. It&#8217;s high time you stop tormenting yourself with\u00a0those\u00a0imaginary movies. Make use of any of\u00a0the tips below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Keep Positive Friends<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Notre Dame researchers in a 2013 study advised:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Avoid perpetually negative people when you can, or at least be aware of what habits might be rubbing off on you&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They indicated that rumination is an habit that\u00a0can easily be mirrored by others; and that\u00a0it&#8217;s easier for friends\u00a0to pick up rumination-like behaviors from their\u00a0colleagues. So, when you are lost in negative thinking, talk to those who won&#8217;t worsen your predicament.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>List Things you are grateful for<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Just like diverting your thoughts. It&#8217;s really good to appreciate who you are, where you are and what your have. Take a pen, put them down; or think about them each time negative thoughts set in.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Read Positive Psychology quotes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can read from those\u00a0i shared on my previous post on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/15-jk-rowling-quotes-to-read-when-you-are-down\/\">15 JK Rowling Quotes to read when you are down.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reframe your Thoughts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cMy life has been filled with terrible misfortunes, most of which have never happened.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Mark Twain<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To reframe simply means,\u00a0replacing your negative thoughts with positive ones. You only have to recognize\u00a0the thought and confront it with something positive ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For an instance, you were\u00a0disappointed by a friend who promised to help you secure a job, don&#8217;t just waste another moment to know who&#8217;s behind that; or to think about what you just missed and what actually is wrong with your life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"Ive-Been-Rejected-Im-Worthless\">\u201cI\u2019ve Been Rejected! I\u2019m Worthless!\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No! Never think of that. It&#8217;s just another opportunity to do something greater and more beneficial. Distract the thoughts that are about to form by finding something worth-doing at the very moment of getting the message.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Throw them away Physically<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How possible? Isn&#8217;t this crazy? It works perfectly. Just put those negative thoughts on a piece of paper and dump it in a trash. You can as well do it electronically: enter them in a notepad (or a text app) and\u00a0send them into the recycle bin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Petty, PhD; a Psychology professor who co-authored\u00a0a 2012 Ohio State University study says <strong>&#8220;People who wrote down negative things about their bodies and then threw them away had a more positive self image a few minutes later, compared to those who kept the papers with them. &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do Yoga<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yoga helps bring attention to your breadth and ease your mind while offloading loads of thoughts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Know more about <a title=\"Yoga: its Mental and Psychological Benefits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/yoga-its-mental-and-psychological-benefits\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">its Mental and Psychological Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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