How to get rid of Negative Thoughts?
“Creating mental images that involve the things that you want to memorize.”
Suppose that you have a bad habit of thinking negative thoughts again and again. And suppose there is no expression of that thinking in the real world. That’s just negative thinking.
Like “I’m so depressed” or “I hate my job” or “I can’t do this” or “I hate my obesity.”
How will you get rid of any bad habit or thoughts when it is completely in your mind?
Actually, there are many ways to change the negative thought. The basic idea is to replace the old thought pattern with the new one. Mentally opposing negative thinking can be reversed.
You will strengthen it and the situation will get worse. The more you fire your neurons in the same direction, the more powerful your negative thinking becomes.
Here is a method that I use to break my negative thought patterns. It is basically made up of a memory technique called ‘chaining’. This method works very well for me.
Instead of trying to resist the Negative Thought pattern, you change its direction. Think of it as a mental kung fu.
Take the energy of negative thinking and turn it towards positive thinking.
With a little mental conditioning, whenever a negative thought comes to your mind, your mind will divert itself to a positive thought.
It is like Pavlov’s dogs who learn to drool when the bell rings.
Here’s how it works:
Suppose your negative thought is subvocalization, meaning you hear a voice from inside that you want to change, like, “I am an idiot”.
If your negative thought instead of being a voice is a mental image (a picture that comes to mind) or kinesthetic (a feeling inside).
You can still use this process. In many cases, your idea can also be a combination of these three.
1. Turn your negative thought into a mental image.
Listen to that inner voice and make a picture of it in your mind.
For example
If you think, “I am an idiot”, imagine that you are jumping around here wearing silly clothes and wearing a clown hat.
People are standing all around you, showing their fingers and you are shouting, “I am an idiot” The more you see this scene the better it is.
Lots of bright colors, lots of animation, even you can think about some sex if it helps you remember.
Keep practicing this scene again and again until just thinking about that negative line, your negative mental image starts coming into your mind.
If you have trouble portraying that idea, then you can also give it the form of a voice. Turn your negative thought into a voice.
To follow this process, imagine a sound or a picture, it will work both ways. By the way, I prefer to imagine a picture.
2. Choose a powerful positive thought to replace that negative thought.
Now decide which positive thought you will choose to replace the negative thought.
Like if you keep thinking that, “I am an idiot,” then maybe you call him, “I am brilliant.”
Would like to replace with. Choose a thought that empowers words you in such a way that you can weaken the effect of that negative thought.
3. Now change your positive thought into a mental image
Once again, create a mental image for your positive thought just like Step 1.
For example,
“I am brilliant” you can imagine yourself standing like a Superman with both hands at the waist.
And you can think that a bulb is burning right above your head. Bulb flashes with very bright light.
And you scream loudly, “I’m brilliant !”.
Keep practicing it till your positive mental image starts coming into your mind just by thinking of that positive line.
4. Now combine both mental images together.
Paste both the mental image you have thought of in Step 1 and Step 3 in your mind.
It is used in a memory technique called trick chaining.
In this, you first convert the picture to another.
I suggest you do this like an animated movie. In this, you have an idea of the first (negative picture) and the last (positive picture) scene, just you have to fill a small animation in the middle.
For example,
In the first scene, someone throws a light bulb at your idiot version. And you catch that bulb and as soon as you catch it, the bulb starts to grow big and it shines so bright that people around you are flashed Huh.
Then you tear off your silly clothes and appear in a gleaming white veneer. You stand up confidently like Superman and shout loudly, “I am brilliant!”
And then those people get down on their knees and start loving you. Once again, the more you think about it, the better it will be.
Thinking out loud will help you remember the scene because our brain is designed to remember unusual things.
Once you complete the whole scene, then repeat it later in your mind so that the speed comes.
Keep imagining this scene from beginning to end until you complete the entire scene in 2 minutes, ideally in 1 minute. It should be lightning fast, faster than the real world.
5. Test.
Now you have to test your mental redirect whether it is working or not. This is very much like HTML redirect.
When you input the old negative URL, then your brain automatically redirects it to a positive. Immediately positive thought should come into your mind as soon as a negative thought comes to mind.
If you have practiced this properly then it will start happening automatically. Negative thought The whole scene will roam in your mind as soon as it comes to mind.
So whenever you think, “I am an idiot”, even if you are not fully aware that you are thinking like this, you will finally find yourself thinking, “I am brilliant”
If you have not done such visualization before then you will take some time to do all this. Will come with Speed practice.
Once practiced, everything will be done in seconds. For the first time, things will be slow, do not be discouraged.
Like any other skill, it can also be learned, and maybe for the first time, you may find it somewhat strange.
I suggest that you experiment with different types of imagery. You will get some imagination right from the rest. Association. Pay special attention to dissociation.
When you are associated with a scene, you will see it happening with your eyes (i.e. first-person perspective).
When you are dissociated, you will visualize yourself in that scene (ie third-person perspective).
Usually, I get the best results on dissociating myself. Your results may be different.
I have done this kind of mental conditioning in the early. Whenever any such negative thinking disturbed me.
I used to pick it up and change its direction. Within a few days, I reprogramed dozens of negative thought patterns and in a few days negative thought for my mind. Or it became too difficult to produce emotion.
Any such thinking would redirect to positive thinking. Maybe to some extent, I was confident enough to start my business soon after leaving college. I can-do mindset my self-doubt related thoughts through mental conditioning.
Used to convert to I used it a lot during college days, and that is probably why I graduated sooner than others.
Despite this, I had to face many real-world challenges, but at least I did not fight my own self-doubt at that time. having had.
This kind of mental conditioning has helped me a lot to control my internal matters.
Today I do it so well that it happens automatically without thinking about it. At some point my subconscious took control of it; So whenever I get such an idea that “I can”, it automatically, “How can I?” Is converted to.
Actually, when you practice mental conditioning too much, then this is what happens. your subconscious takes to control the same as it happens after the practice of cycling.
Now whenever you feel that a negative thought is doing home in your mind, try it.