50–70,000 Thoughts A Day!
Just what our brains go through.
Did you know that our brains have the capacity to process about:
50–70,000 thoughts a day? Over 100,000 even.
No wonder our brains get so exhausted by the end of the day, having processed that many thoughts.
With social media in the mix, and the nature of our busy lives. It can be a real challenge to keep our minds silent, let alone keep our thoughts positive.
I'm also quite sure that this might increase with conflicts and arguments we might have with those around us.
In other words, It's clear to see that our brains can easily get highly overworked.
Let's put all of this into perspective.
How do our brains deal with all that information?
Now that those thoughts have been created, they need processing too.
It does this through a process called,
D.D.G, according to the field of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).
- Deleting
- Distorting
- Generalizing
These thoughts are a mish-mash of positive, negative, and inquisitive thoughts.
I'm quite sure that it's a lot more complex than that, with endless steps and processes.
Something that even computers can’t really accomplish, but mother nature somehow managed.
Since I’m not a scientist, it’s just some basic information that might get you thinking.
Now, I know you might be curious as to…
How many are positive, how many are negative?
According to tlexinstitute.com, an article on Mind Matters: How To Effortlessly Have More Positive Thoughts.
They basically summarized some research on human thoughts, that occur daily.
Out of all those lovely bunches of 50–100,000 thoughts,
- 80% were negative.
- 95% repetitive thoughts, same as the day before.
They emphasized the fact that our brains tend to repeat the same or similar thoughts over and over again.
Let's dive a little deeper,
An additional 2005 study from Cornell University found that:
- 85% of our worries never actually happen (manifest themselves in reality).
- 15% of worries did happen.
- 79% of those subjects felt that they learned a valuable lesson from some hardship that might have taken place.
Great, but what does all of this tell us.
As you can see, a staggering number of all those thousands of thoughts are negative.
To be honest, it’s understandable, since we can face so many obstacles in life.
What's more interesting, is the fact that we tend to worry about things that hardly ever happen.
I always go by an abbreviation I once heard in a YouTube video a while back.
Which goes something like this.
F — False.
E—Events.
A — Appearing.
R — Real
So there you have, I'm not sure how to end his post.
So I’ll just say, try to increase the number of uplifting thoughts.
Which, leads me beautifully into recommending an article I wrote on.
References.
Amazing sources of information and inspiration, feel free to refer to them for in-depth information.
TLEX institute
Mind Matters: How To Effortlessly Have More Positive Thoughts
By Neringa Antanaityte
Huffpost
Did You Know…You Have Between 50,000 And 70,000 Thoughts Per Day…
