5 Thought Interventions that Makes You Mentally Strong

#2 Yes I am not exceptional

Everything that was happened, happening, and will happen in your life is all because of the thought that you seed in your mind.

The thought has the power to make a person successful or unsuccessful, rich or poor, lovable or loathsome, mentally strong, or weak.

When you think something, your conscious mind starts to accept it as right and feeds it to your subconscious mind and that becomes your belief.

Your brain is a super-intelligent machine that always interprets what you think with some add on.

If you think you cannot do things then your brain automatically interprets it as you cannot do things because you are fit for nothing and this becomes your belief.

You behave as you believe and you are your belief.

The hack is to intervene with the actual reason for your thought before your thought is converted to belief.

I cannot do things because I need more practice or I cannot understand the speech because I didn’t listen properly.

This way of interventions before your thought gets processed is called thought interventions.

Consciously intervening your thoughts with good and right reasons make you foster reasonable beliefs which in turn make you mentally strong.

There are five thought interventions that make you mentally strong.

Yes I am not alone

Many people think that they are the only one in the world have serious problems.

If you think you have a problem then your brain interprets it as you have a serious problem and it cannot be solved.

This interpretation will be deeply rooted in your subconscious mind which makes you strongly believe that only you have more problems in the world.

This thought breeds more real problems.

You are not the only one to have serious problems and there are thousands of people who had or have or will have the same problem.

So whenever you have a thought that you are surrounded by more problems just intervene with Yes I have serious problems but I am not alone.

The feeling of not being alone makes your brain believe that already people have solved the same kind of problem many times so why not me this time or there are people with more serious problems than me so my problem must be small when compared to them.

This belief actually makes your brain settled and search for solutions instead of constantly worrying about the problems.

Yes I am not exceptional

There is a wrong fact revolving around us that only exceptional people can succeed. This creates a psychological problem among the people that only extraordinary humans can be successful.

When you think that you are not an extraordinary person then your brain will interpret as you are not extraordinary so you cannot succeed in life.

So obviously you will believe that you are an unsuccessful model and you are not brought to this world to achieve something.

This causes anxiety, stress, and depression.

No one is born exceptional in this world.

Extraordinary people today were once average. They are exceptional today not because they believed they were exceptional but because they were obsessed with improvement.

If you have a thought that you are not extraordinary or exceptional, then you intervene with Yes I am not exceptional but I will be exceptional one day.

This thought intervention makes you believe that you can be an extraordinary person one day and you have to work for that today.

Yes my improvement days were not noteworthy

People most often give up even before they see the result. This is because the process to achieve your goal will be always boring and messy.

Our brain is evolved in such a way that when it feels anything boring or messy it always tries to avoid, so it creates an illusion that we are not progressing well.

When you think you are not doing much progress and not doing the right things to improve yourself then you start to believe that your improvement days were not noteworthy.

And this makes you give up even before seeing the result.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Alva Edison

Whatever the circumstance is, being perseverance is important and successful people have a strong belief in perseverance.

One day they might be progressing well, another day they might show less progress, but whatever the situation is they show at least a bit of progress daily.

Even though they know that the insane hours that they devote to something might earn absolutely nothing, they keep appreciating those hours.

So whenever you think you are not progressing well or you feel like your improvement days are not worthy, then intervene with Yes my improvement days are not noteworthy, so what? I am here to persevere.

This intervention makes your brain to prioritize perseverance over boredom. Once your brain starts to prioritize perseverance then slowly you’ll be obsessed with your improvement.

Yes I am failed and it is really painful

From our childhood, we got injected with a thought that failures are really bad, and if you failed you can’t achieve what you wish.

This is what our education system taught us and this is what we teach to our children without knowing its side effect.

We often relate success and failure with our self-esteem and we strongly believe that failing at something will knock our self-esteem. This creates a fear of failure.

Because of this mindset, when we face failure, our brain automatically interprets as our life is in danger which in turn makes us mentally weak.

This mental weakness might even lead to life-threatening problems such as suicidal attempts.

But in reality, failures are very good for us.

Failure opens up several opportunities to learn which expands our knowledge widely.

Thus embracing failure will shape us rather than shrink us.

One of the quote by Thomas Alva Edison that shows how beautifully he embraces failure.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

— Thomas Alva Edison

So when you fail at something, before your brain starts to interpret it as a danger, you intervene with Yes I am failed and it is really painful but it is a part of my life.

When you accept failure as a part of your life, you start to realize that failures are certain and you can’t avoid it but can embrace it.

This is the realization we must teach our younger generation too.

No, I am not right always

When you think you are right always, you start to believe that there is nothing to be learned and you know everything.

If you stop learning then obviously you will stop feeding your mind which makes you mentally weak.

Intelligent people are not the one who thinks they know everything but the one who questions their thought of being right always.

Intervene your thought of being right always with No, I am not right always, I should question my thought of being right.

This creates a habit of questioning your thoughts which improves your self-awareness. Self-awareness makes you learn from your mistakes and correct them in the future.

This is how growth happens.

Final Thoughts

A recent study has suggested that an average person has 6,200 thoughts per day which have a tendency to swings indecisively to and fro.

A lot of people are struggling to control their thoughts and they often fail to do that. This is because they think that controlling the thoughts mean completely oppressing it.

In this world of distraction, it is difficult to oppress your thoughts completely but instead, you can divert your thoughts in different directions.

Thus thought intervention is the best way to divert your thoughts.

When you practice intervening your thoughts with good reasons then you can feel the difference in your behavior in a positive way.