How to Change Negative Thinking into Positive Thinking with Self-talk

Have you ever been through times where an endless flow of buzzing chatter just nags at you in your mind? If it were someone else, it would be pointless to try and understand it, but you can. You understand what that gush of thoughts is saying because it all comes from within you.

That voice in your head, the internal judge, when you either war or contemplate with yourself is self-talk. You either you let it nag away and bring you down, or you can use it to psych yourself up and let it help you face life’s challenges head on. What is the secret? What is the power? How do you learn how to change negative thinking into positive thinking?

The Power

It may be a “duh” worthy statement but we do fail to realize that the types of thoughts we think more or less act as a precursor of what mood we’ll be in. If you think sad or mad thoughts, then you feel such. When you think happy, it isn’t very hard to be. This is the idea behind the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Think you’ll fail, and you probably will as you feel working towards your goal as pointless. However, if you think you succeed, your chances of doing so go up.

Spotting Destruction

With learning how to change negative thinking into positive thinking, you should know what it is you do with your thoughts that aren’t so helpful. There are many forms of negative self-talk, one of which is a classic one – anticipating the worse. Though there is a saying which tells us to “prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” make sure you fulfill both parts of the deal and not take sides. Another would be seeing things in absolutes. You’re either successful or a roaring failure, good or bad with no gray areas. Blaming yourself is also a bad thinking habit. Finally, there’s the mentality where you filter everything and focus on the negative and disregard the positive. Try your best to veer away from these types of thoughts

The Change Tips

And now we have the main event – how to change negative thinking into positive thinking. This is a fairly simple task; you just have to be committed to following this practice and make a habit out of it. First, stop to take a more objective look at just what you’re thinking about. Try to see the good in things or even challenge yourself to. In line with that, why not see humor in something day to day despite the hard times. This would surely leave you feeling less stressed. Last, live a good life in body, company and mind. Eat well and exercise to, surround yourself with positive people and let it rub on you, and practice positive self-talk.

Changing from negative to positive thinking doesn’t happen overnight. It takes practice. Never lose hope or heart. Take this challenge and learn from it well.

Have you ever been through times where an endless flow of buzzing chatter just nags at you in your mind? If it were someone else, it would be pointless to try and understand it, but you can. You understand what that gush of thoughts is saying because it all comes from within you.

That voice in your head, the internal judge, when you either war or contemplate with yourself is self-talk. You either you let it nag away and bring you down, or you can use it to psych yourself up and let it help you face life’s challenges head on. What is the secret? What is the power? How do you learn how to change negative thinking into positive thinking?

The Power

It may be a “duh” worthy statement but we do fail to realize that the types of thoughts we think more or less act as a precursor of what mood we’ll be in. If you think sad or mad thoughts, then you feel such. When you think happy, it isn’t very hard to be. This is the idea behind the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Think you’ll fail, and you probably will as you feel working towards your goal as pointless. However, if you think you succeed, your chances of doing so go up.

Spotting Destruction

With learning how to change negative thinking into positive thinking, you should know what it is you do with your thoughts that aren’t so helpful. There are many forms of negative self-talk, one of which is a classic one – anticipating the worse. Though there is a saying which tells us to “prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” make sure you fulfill both parts of the deal and not take sides. Another would be seeing things in absolutes. You’re either successful or a roaring failure, good or bad with no gray areas. Blaming yourself is also a bad thinking habit. Finally, there’s the mentality where you filter everything and focus on the negative and disregard the positive. Try your best to veer away from these types of thoughts

The Change Tips

And now we have the main event – how to change negative thinking into positive thinking. This is a fairly simple task; you just have to be committed to following this practice and make a habit out of it. First, stop to take a more objective look at just what you’re thinking about. Try to see the good in things or even challenge yourself to. In line with that, why not see humor in something day to day despite the hard times. This would surely leave you feeling less stressed. Last, live a good life in body, company and mind. Eat well and exercise to, surround yourself with positive people and let it rub on you, and practice positive self-talk.

Changing from negative to positive thinking doesn’t happen overnight. It takes practice. Never lose hope or heart. Take this challenge and learn from it well.

Maybe it is turning into one those weeks after all. You may have read about the flood that I was greeted with on my return to my apartment a couple of days ago. It is still a right old mess and starting to make everything else smell a bit damp and mouldy. Not too nice to live in. But I am staying positive about the situation and just trying to get on with things despite being now cooped up in one room.

So just when I was getting used to a slightly different way of doing things at home and thinking that I was still able to do what I need to do work-wise on a daily basis, I somehow managed to delete the homepage of this blog by messing about with my ftp program. Now I am not the most tech-savvy person around but usually, if I do something on my computer that I really didn’t mean to, and it causes what on the face of it looks like a distaster that will ruin days or weeks of work, with a bit of thought and a calm approach I can put it right again.

Well if you are reading this I must have been able to do it this time as well. But, I have to be honest, that at the time it looked like I had really managed to screw myself. I stared at the screen of my ftp client long and hard but nothing popped into my head as regards how the hell I was going to reverse what I had done. And just a little, I started to panic that I had lost weeks and weeks of hard work. I realised that if there was any chance of getting the blog back to its original and fine-looking self I was going to need help.

Now, the guys at the help desk of my web hosting are very quick in their response to support queries so with quiet confidence I sat back and awaited a reply to my problem. Time passed. And a bit more. Still no response. This was unusual, so I started to think about the consequences of the lost/wasted time this was costing. I began running through all the work I had planned to do that day but now couldn’t. And I started to feel a general air of gloom descend on a day that I originally thought was going to be productive and positive.

What had happened was that a perceived calamity which in all truth I made out in my mind to be far worse and of greater magnitude that it really was in all probability had turned my initial positive mental attitude into a negative one. My thoughts had been positive to start with, but had been eroded and replaced with negative ones. This can happen to us all too easily if we let it.

But there are ways to limit this kind of mental slide from positive to negative. There are techniques we can learn to mentally take a stepback from whatever life throws up to try and ruin our day. It may take some practice (looks like I need more!) but it can be done.

What did I do? Well I wrote this blog post of course-in notepad! I took a few moments to guage my reaction to this set-back, and then tried to practice what I preach and look for positives in seemingly negative scenarios. A bit of self anaysis and talk can be a good thing, as it allows you to put things into perspective more logically, gives you a chance to weigh up your options and then proceed with the best plan of action.