How Stressful Thinking Affects YOU!
How stressful thinking affects you!
How Stressful Thinking Affects YOU!
We all encounter stress from day to day and minute to minute, but how we deal with stress determines whether it moves us forward or holds us back. Stressful thinking is often frenzied, inaccurate, and unreliable, yet many of us go through life thinking and behaving in stressful manners and allowing those thoughts to run our life. Many of us assume that this is the way life has to be, and there is no getting around it, but this is certainly not the case!
Silencing negative thinking may be easier than you ever imagined it could be…but it begins with a positive thought.
Negative Thinking, Positive Affirmations, and You
Negative thinking not only controls the way you approach life, but it also can affect your body, mind, and relationships in negative ways. When you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you have the power to move forward in a healthier and more productive way. With enough time and effort, you can change your thought process, and it all begins with just a few words.
The Power of A Few Words...
When you see a list of affirmations, you see nothing more than a list of words with idealistic phrases that do not seem to apply to your thinking. If you look closer at each affirmation, you may find that many of them encapsulate the way you would like to think.
When you see a positive phrase that speaks to you, latch onto it and use it to extinguish the negative thought you want to get rid of. In essence, you will be replacing your negative thinking pattern with a positive approach. When you shift your thinking to a positive thought, it will create a change in your feeling state! You will start to FEEL better. And isn’t that ultimately what you are looking for? This is what positive affirmations are all about!
Affirmations are positive statements that stimulate your mind to accomplish all of the great things you would like. Words have the power to move mountains because they can evoke emotions within us all. If you use an affirmation that speaks to you on a deep level – and you reaffirm it by repeating it often – you can make the statement your mantra which can then change your emotional state which can then allow you to change your reality.
If you are overcome by negative thinking to the point where you think no affirmation can work for you, ask yourself why you believe that. Is that REALLY true? Or is it simply your belief based on old programming. Are you willing to let go of that belief? If you aren’t, ask yourself what is the payoff you are getting for continuing to believe that? Does it allow you to stay in your comfort zone even if it feels bad? Get honest with yourself but not from a place of judgement. Simply from a place of curiosity. Once you realize feeling bad isn’t serving you right now, make the decision to release the negative belief and the contracted feelings that go along with it. Tell yourself you are releasing that belief and the negative feelings now. Then notice how much lighter you feel.
You have shifted your state of being into a higher, happier place. It’s this happy “feeling” you have been wanting and you can experience that NOW without even needing to have anything outside of you (different circumstances) happen.
Does this sound too good to be true? There are many people who, just like you, think this strategy is too simple to be effective. The only way to know for certain is to try it for yourself. What do you have to lose? No one has to know but you, and you just may find that the benefits are so great that you want to share them with everyone you know.