Benefit From These Tips For Eliminating Negative Thoughts

We have negative thoughts daily. Commonly they occur when we feel 'out of control', when we worry about the future, or when we feel fear.

Besides, the Western society lives surrounded by media that feed this negative pattern of thought. The headings in the news read usually about danger, war, famine, scarcity, conflicts of any type, threats and enemies. News easily provoke anxiety and fear.

Not surprisingly we tend to automatically think in a negative way in many areas of our lives.

How do I get rid of negative thoughts?

You can learn to deal with negative thoughts. Overtime, you can create a habit of thinking positive (find out more about creating positive habits).

However, rather than fighting against negative thoughts, the best way to deal with them is to replace them for positive ones. Find out more about this process through these steps of positive thinking.

Tips for eliminating negative thoughts

Follow these tips for eliminating negative thoughts to deal with negative thinking effectively:

• Realize that focusing on negative thoughts only brings about more negative thoughts. "You attract what you focus on", remember. Find out more about this in the law of attraction explained.

  If you don't want to attract more negative thoughts, you need to stop the current negative thoughts you have. As soon as you reach for a better-feeling thought, more positive thoughts will come to you.

  

• Ask yourself how much of those negative thoughts reflects reality. Most of the negative thoughts we have are results of projected fears about situations that rarely end up manifesting, in any case.

  A really good method is Byron Katie's "The Work", in which when you have a negative thought you ask yourself, 'Is it true?', and then 'Can I absolutely know that it's true?'

• You can always picture a different scenario. If you can imagine bad things, then you also have the capacity of imaging good ones. Instead of playing 'worst case scenario', why not playing 'best case scenario'?

  Your mind is just a tool; use it in a way that helps you better.

• Ask yourself: "If I was the director of all this (the scenario that you feel it's negative), how would it look like?" Build it as you would rather have it, picture it as pleasant as you would like it to be in reality.

  It may or may not come to manifest exactly as you picture it, but while you are busy imaging positive circumstances you are not keeping negative thoughts. Plus, you're actually attracting positive circumstances.

  Whenever you notice your mind drifting into negative thoughts again, bring it back to the beautiful and positive script you created. Enjoy replaying your best scenario in your mind.

• You always have the present to escape to: if negative thoughts trouble you, get back to simply being with this tip for living in the present.

Other ways

The above tips to replace negative thinking may be useful to you, but bear in mind that there are more ways to deal with negative thoughts. The following are other tips for eliminating negative thoughts:

• Joe Vitale, in "Life's missing instruction manual", describes negative thoughts as a character that he calls Chip, who whispers nonsense in our ears, and to whom we can prove wrong.

• Louise Hay, in "You can heal your life", suggests us to shout "Out!" to the negative thoughts when we realize we are having them.

• Susan Minarik explains in "Winning the tomorrow game" a simple yet effective thought interruption technique that can be used to get rid of negative thoughts within less than a minute.

• This positive taoist story reminds us that the positive is contained in the negative and vice versa. This can help you to switch your thoughts on to looking for the good in any negative situation.

We all deal with negative thoughts differently. Try different techniques, take note of the technique that works best for you, and use it whenever needed.

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