Table of contents hide 1 Knowing that our thoughts secrete chemicals in us, how do you think a person would feel like he has negative thoughts without even knowing it? 2 How can we stop negative thoughts? 3 1. Identify what your Negative Thoughts are. 4 2. Modify your Negative Thoughts. 5 3. Avoid the Negative Triggers. 6 4. Move and change tasks. 7 5. Look for solutions Today.
Do you have any idea how many negative thoughts we face daily? Approximately, according to studies, about 60, 000. per day and these are mostly repetitive. So we had them for several days hovering in our heads.
According to Rick Hanson, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist (founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience, and author of the bestseller "Human Beings are Evolutionarily a Bias of Negativity") "our minds naturally focus on the negative and discard The positive. This was very important for our ancestors, as it helped them avoid threats. ”
These negative thoughts create neuronal connections in our brains and in turn those connections secrete different chemical substances in us, causing both positive and negative feelings, depending on the type of thinking we have.
Knowing that our thoughts secrete chemicals in us, how do you think a person would feel that day by day has negative thoughts without even knowing it?
Obviously wrong, even those chemists can generate a dependency, an addiction that we need those thoughts . We may not be aware that we need those thoughts and do not even realize why we have a bad mood or think that we are like that, that our nature is to be a negative and moody person.
How can we stop negative thoughts?
Here I tell you some techniques that will help break with negative thoughts .
1. Identify what your Negative Thoughts are.
One gets carried away and is not aware of the negative dynamics in which one enters. Therefore, realizing what negative thoughts we have is the first thing we should do.
We identify them and choose not to pay attention to them. Thoughts really are fleeting, but when we let them flow in our mind unconsciously and pay attention to them, it is when they become repetitive.
From now on, we will choose that those negative thoughts do not enter our brain. We will only allow those who meet certain requirements to enter. Our Mind will be free of all negative thoughts, we will let only those who benefit us pass.
2. Modify your Negative Thoughts.
It may not be necessary to eliminate negative thinking, but we can transform it or modify it into positive or at least neutral. Our job is to not allow access to those who do not meet the requirements. If those negative thoughts want to meet those requirements they can enter. If they don't want to meet those requirements, they will be left at the door. Therefore, they will give that negative thought the opportunity to transform itself into another thought that can really serve them and does not trigger those negative chemicals uncontrollably.
3. Avoid the Negative Triggers.
Negative triggers are certain things, such as a song, an image, television news, a series or TV show, certain people, etc., that automatically trigger negative thoughts.
Our job is to detect those triggers and avoid them . We must be vigilant and avoid getting into our mind without realizing it. Create your own positive triggers. Music, images, videos, etc., that you shoot positive thoughts and emotions to start modifying the amount of chemicals, increasing the chemicals that make them feel good and reducing those that don't.
4. Move and change tasks.
If you suddenly find that a negative thought has sneaked into your minds, that it is possible and human that can happen to us, we will kindly invite you to withdraw. But you may not want to leave, so what we have to do is move, we get up, we walk, we do gymnastics, we dance, we go for a walk. We make our body take our mind the other way.
5. Look for solutions today.
Ask yourself, what can we do today to improve what worries us? however insignificant what they are thinking, the sum of everything is what will take us where we want to go.
SOURCES: www.nuriaadreu.com; https://elartedevivires.org/2015/09/11/pensamientos-negativos-causa-efecto-en-el-cerebro-y-solucion-estudio-del-instituto-de-wellspring-para-la-neurociencia/
