Taming Negative Thoughts

The mind is a super computer which operates at light speed. Each time one thought leaves ten more thoughts enter the picture. Keeping a conscious track on these thoughts is a twenty four hour job in the mind.

As you go through your day you're bombarded by thousands of thoughts each day, and most of these thoughts are negative. Why do we continue to replay negative thoughts over and over in the mind? Happy thoughts come and go, but the negative ones seem to hover over us like a never ending black cloud. The mind just can't seem to let go of the negativity.

Mental Awareness

If you've ever really listened to your thoughts, and not just let them fly out of your mind un-registered, you'd actually be surprised how many thoughts are thoughts which you have no control over. Most of these thoughts are regrets from the past, or worries about the future.

The culprit who engineers most of these negative thoughts is the ego. The ego is of course a tool which we need to survive, but when it becomes overactive, the ego can become very detrimental to your mental health. The ego fills the mind with useless worries, and thoughts of selflessness.

The ego is a master of deception as it tells our minds that we: "could have done better," or "should have done better," in a million different ways. These thoughts of failure bounce off each other as they feed the mind and keeps it problem solving until the end of time.

Training the Mind

The key to ending this negative thought pattern is teaching the mind to shut down these negative thoughts. The mind is a brilliant muscle which wants to be used, and the best way to be used constantly is to keep you in these never-ending thoughts of negativity.

Love and fear is said to be the only two emotions which we live by, and negative thought patterns are formed from the emotion of fear. To end the fear in your mind, you must first understand what causes this fear emotion, and also what triggers it.

Next you have to understand that most of these thoughts cannot be solved by constantly replaying them over and over in your mind. Nothing you can ever do will change the past, so let it go. It's already served its purpose; don't live in the past (in your mind) the rest of your life.

Listen to the mind and be conscious of each thought which enters. As the thought enters the mind ask yourself if thinking about it can change anything; if not put the thought out of your mind. Keep training your mind to throw away these thoughts until it starts to become a habit.

This is the same principal as meditation, clearing the mind of all of its excessive baggage. Learn to live in the now, not the future or the past. Try to have a little faith in the future. The mind has a beautiful silent place where creativity and the God part of us exist.

If you can't stop the negative thoughts, try replacing them with positive thoughts. Every time you notice a negative thought enter automatically replace it with a positive one. Believe me, it will take awhile but this definitely works because I'm living proof.

Keep your mind busy discarding negative thoughts, and soon you'll notice that you're doing it automatically. This is what hypnosis is: clearing the mind of all thoughts but "one" thought. After a while you'll start to feel the peace which lives inside.

This existence is about learning to live with negativity and its problems, which is all a part of our spiritual growth. Without negativity in the world we would never grow spiritually, or experience what we were suppose to. Negativity is one of the great teachers