Negative Thoughts Out Of Control

How many times have you worked at thinking positive, worked on affirmations to replace negative thoughts, only to find that when you are in the midst of a frustrating or stressful situation, your thoughts return to the negative and you realize that your work was in vain? You have spent time trying to nurture your positive thoughts. You have spent time memorizing the affirmations. What went wrong? Is there nothing you can do to fix this? You can break this habit, but it is just that a habit of negative thinking.

Unless you grew up in a powerfully positive environment, stayed away from other people and spent your whole life thinking positive, chances are negative thought is your habit--your go to state of mind. The good news is, as with all habits this one can be broken as well. It may well just take a long time. The older you are the harder it is to break from this cycle. Most habits can be broken in 21 days, so if you can make it 21 days the habit will be broken. Chances are you will slip and revert, but don't quit. Find a more powerful affirmation and remember your goal.

I know for myself this cycle still happens no matter how hard I work at thinking positive thoughts. My habitual negative thinking is very much apart of my life. I always saw the negative side of things. I have tried several times though-out my life to break this habit, but have always fallen short and end up giving up thinking it's just in my DNA to think that way.

Recently though I have started again to work on my positive thinking. Committing to the task at hand. Realizing that my thoughts are one of the few things I can control. If I can't master my thoughts how can I master my life? It is finally starting to work. I am able to realize what is happening and shift to a more positive and powerful state in most situations. I stay positive for longer periods of time. I'm getting better and will break this habit!

I am not a master of my own thoughts yet, but am getting better at it. Affirmations are key. Affirmations are only good though if they resonate within you for the goal you are trying to achieve. If they are just words that you repeat that have meaning but don't move you to action, they are just empty words. You need an affirmation that moves you to take action and do what you should do.

Another thing to remember is that you do have control and can control your thoughts, just as well as your actions. If your actions can't be controlled than that too is a lack of control of your thoughts. Just realizing that you are in control of your thinking can make a huge impact on how well you progress.

Positive thinking is not a one time action. It is a lifetime of actions. Something that takes time and most importantly work, as it's not easy. The great news is the work will be rewarded in a more peaceful life and a life of rewards if your thoughts are directed in the right way thorough goals and actions.

Lewis Michael is owner of the website http://www.thinkpositivethoughts.net/

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Positive Affirmations Can Counteract Negative Thoughts

Affirmations are short sentences stating something, and are often used to improve behavioural issues and blocks that may be stopping you from accomplishing your goals, or preventing you from being happy. But even if you don't believe in them, affirmations are already on your life, often in the form of negative affirmations. Every time you tell yourself that you can't do something or that you are too old/heavy/ugly/slow to do something you want to do, you are using a negative affirmation to reinforce that belief. Positive affirmations are created to counteract those negative thoughts.

Positive affirmations are created to target particular behaviours that you know are negative, and help you achieve your goals by convincing yourself that you can actually do it. You cannot win a race if you never start running or if you just give up mid-way because somehow, you knew you were going to lose anyway. It's easy to see negative behaviour patterns on others, such as that workmate that never gets a promotion because he never asks for it, but it's much more difficult to see them on yourself. By identifying those goals that are dearest for you, you can then see what kind of negative behaviour patterns are stopping you on your tracks, and create an opposing positive affirmation to replace them on your mind.

Many negative thoughts originate from seemingly innocent comments made to you during your life that spiral out of control, or from well-meaning adults trying to excuse a mistake without making you feel bad. Take for example those people who never manage a diet, because they think that obesity is just their body build. Believing that you are just overweight because that's how life is and your mum always said that you just had to live with being round is not only damaging, but it's stopping you from actually succeeding on a diet. Unless there's an underlying medical issue, eating chocolate because a little voice on your head tells you that dieting is not going to work for you because your metabolism is slow is not leading you anywhere.

Turn around your negative thoughts into a positive affirmation that you can repeat happily and regularly to yourself, until it becomes part of you. This way you can actually invite change into your life, and change those things that are preventing you from being happy, or limiting your ability to enjoy yourself. There will be always a certain degree of resistance, as your subconscious doesn't want to change deeply seated behaviour patterns that at some point were useful, but if you persevere you'll soon start noticing that resistance fade and positive changes taking effect on your life. This, in turn, makes it easier for you to believe on the power of positive affirmations and your innate capacity for change.

If you aren't sure about the power of positive affirmations and a positive attitude to change your life you only need to try. Create an affirmation about a single goal that is important for you, and write it down, sing it or repeat it for yourself several times a day. Once the initial feelings of resistance fade you'll find yourself thinking differently, and that's the first step towards actually enabling change on your life.

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Powerful Affirmations for Changing Negative Self Talk

Becoming conscious of negative self talk

Positive and conscious affirmations have been an integral part of my growth. I was fascinated to find that when I consciously tuned into my non-stop thoughts, I was surprised to find a lot of negatives.The constant mind chatter would start even before I opened my eyes in the morning and went a little something like this: "O God, I'm tired. Why must I get up, I hate my job, why is it so cold, why am I overweight, why does my belly look like Buddha's, I have to quit the Starbucks", after my "pre-wake up self battering" I would look in the mirror and begin again "O God, I have acne, why is my skin so dull, I look terrible, why am I ugly, O God, more white hair, why am I so tired." Blah blah blah, and on and on and on it would go until bedtime. Relentless.

Do affirmations have to be believable?

I became conscious that I wasn't very kind to myself. I also became conscious that if I had a friend that spoke to me like that, I would probably no longer have them as a friend. The only thing to do was to change these seemly self-fulfilling prophecies. Affirmations were part of this change. I would leave post its all over the house, on the fridge, in the fridge, on the mirrors, doors, walls and TV. In addition to well over hundred Post-It's I had a notebook to read on the tube, trains and buses. I would read my affirmations for months constantly and with conviction. It was also important to me that part of me believed the affirmation. It's no use having an affirmation like: "I am a supermodel" or "I am a billionaire" when your psyche is screaming that you are not. So I built my own list, and would test how these words made me feel. I thought I should start with: "I am strong", now part of me was strong but also part of me was weak, and that's ok, I just identified with the part that was strong so saying it was believable to some of me.

Choosing the right words for your affirmation

Read the list below, notice how each word makes you feel. Look especially at the words that you feel do not pertain to you, your growth lies in those words. The words "I AM", send your psyche a strong message, the more you say them, the more you believe them, the more you embody them, until you become them

Each of these attributes are in you, maybe it's time to access them, try the following:

I AM LOVING

I AM LOVED

I AM STRONG

I AM BEAUTIFUL

I AM RADIANT

I AM POWERFUL

I AM SUCCESSFUL

I AM GRATEFUL

I AM GRACEFUL

I AM VULNERABLE

I AM PEACEFUL

I see you.

As within, so without

Grace

Grace G. Payge

http://www.themanwomangame.co.za/

Grace is an international speaker and coach in the field of the man woman relationship dynamic. She gives an informative, humorous, practical and deeply intuitive talk allowing woman you to quickly access their inner Goddess. Woman will easily be able to consciously shift their behaviors, language and more importantly their energy to a true feminine nature. Woman will then experience superior and enhanced interactions with all men. Work relationships, friendships and intimate relationships shift instantly and positively. Grace is currently situated in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Removing Negative Thoughts With Nightly Affirmations to Improve Happiness

The power of positive thoughts to transform lives has been recognized by science. Many people repeat positive thought affirmations to themselves daily, but these affirmative thoughts work more effectively on the unconscious mind, or during the sleep state. But how do you repeat such affirmations in your sleep? With an affirmation recording device, people can use nightly affirmations to remove negative thoughts and achieve happiness.

The market is flooded with many devices but there are a few real good ones out there, for e.g. Awake2000 Mindmaster. Its designer Verne Hall has utilized his knowledge and personal experience of brain power, self-hypnosis and positive affirmations to create a product which can help you attract positivity into your life with little effort. Faced with cancer, Hall created the Awake2000 Mindmaster to strengthen his body with positive thought affirmations, but the uses of this product are limitless, from improving your golf game to helping you break unhealthy eating habits.

Like many others, you may be skeptical of nightly affirmations, especially if you have tried using daily affirmations to little effect. Often, we are our own worst enemies since we tend to focus on negative thoughts instead of positive ones, for example, worrying about failing a test, instead of planning to pass it. The best way to attract positivity is to expose your mind to positive affirmations by means of an affirmation recording device. These products let you record nightly affirmations and play them back to yourself at a time when your brain is most open to suggestion. Having positive words of nightly affirmation repeated as your brain passes through the Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta cycles will help push negativity out of your mind and your life.

Many of us know that negative thoughts are harmful, but it is hard to break a life-long habit. However, with a quality affirmation recording device, you can record nightly affirmations that will encourage positive thinking and focus them specifically to your life situation. If worries about your health are stopping you from achieving the optimal health levels you desire, then record a few positively worded phrases about health.

Over time, you will notice that these nightly affirmations lead to a more positive outlook in life, helping you stay healthy and disease-free. Bear in mind that you should follow the instructions to programme the device to your different brain cycles. With this special kind of devices, being positive is an attainable goal because nightly affirmations, featuring positive thoughts recorded in your own voice, will be transmitted to your brain and dispel your negative thoughts.

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