Saturday, April 6, 2013

Combating Negative Thoughts with Positive Self-Talk

By Hal Neff


Do you talk yourself out of becoming enthusiastic and hopeful whenever you feel good about yourself? Do you often start out feeling confident in yourself and your skills, and then drop to zero confidence when your inner dialogue kicks in?

This pessimistic thoughts is something many individuals struggle with, but there is a much better approach.

You could beat negative thinking with positive self talk rather than letting an automatic pessimistic thought process rule your life.

Negative Thoughts, Optimistic Self-Talk, and You

Many people lack the confidence to understand that they deserve to feel great about themselves. These individuals do not give consideration to the reality that they are the ones telling themselves that they do not deserve rewards.

Are you one of these individuals? You can find if you are sabotaging yourself by tuning into your thoughts and listening. What do you hear? Are you encouraging yourself with positive thinking? Or are your thoughts filled with negatives?

* You might not even realize how pessimistic thinking might be taking over your life. This may be something that you cope with everyday and have come to see as normal. Nevertheless , it is just normal if you allow it to be that way!

Optimistic self-talk is the practice of answering to negative thoughts that go through your head. For example , when you tell yourself that you can't quite possibly land the job because you aren't good enough, you can answer with positive thoughts that do not leave space for pessimism. These ideas can be as easy or complex as you like. The crucial thing is that you continue to think positively.

* Positive self-talk enables you to be the one managing your thoughts!

Lots of people match optimistic self-talk with affirmations. Affirmations are simple assertions you may repeat to yourself over and over again. You could allow these thoughts to be accurate for you. The process is as subconscious as it is conscious.

If you will continue to reaffirm the positive thought, you will make it true for yourself until you finally don't need to tell yourself to think that way.

* Affirmations are positive assertions that substitute your negative thought processes. You may change your life one thought at a time!

If you are feeling low and thinking negatively about yourself or your future, try saying, "I provide myself permission to be prosperous, " or "I view myself in the winner's circle. "

Strive to substitute your own negative assertions with positive thoughts when you repeat your own assertions. Soon it will become second nature to repeat your assertions anytime that you begin to think negatively.

* With positive self-talk you can truly change the course of your life. You may go from being a pessimistic person with no hope for the future, to being an optimist who can reach anything you set your mind to.

Does this imply that there will not be difficulties along the way, or that you'll never fail? No, because those stuff are a part of life. But what it can mean is that you will have a much better attitude, which will allow you to hold the very best that life has to offer.

Optimistic self-talk is not difficult and it is worth the hard work that is included because it could really change the way you see yourself and the world that you live in.




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