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The Principles of Managing Negative Thoughts
- Recognize negative thinking when it arises.
- Ask yourself if the thought is truthful or helpful.
- If the negative thought provides no value, shift your focus by rewiring your thought patterns.
- Manage negative thinking by changing the way you respond to it and control how much impact it has.
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Negative Bias
If you regularly experience negative thoughts, this cognitive distortion can sadly worsen an already poor mental health, leading to low mood, poor self-esteem, and anxiety.
To make things worse, a bias towards negative thinking will increase the likelihood that you’ll spend time ruminating ...
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Negative Feelings Are Natural
Our thought processes are affected by what we experience around us, and it’s normal to experience both good and bad times. However, when negative thinking becomes the norm, it can contribute to mental health problems including social anxiety, low self-esteem, and even depression. To avoid falling...
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The Bottom Line
Once recognised, negative thoughts can be managed to reduce the impact on your emotional wellbeing. This in turn will break the cycle of negative thinking.
By paying attention to your thoughts and interrogating their validity you can prevent cognitive distortions from skewing your beliefs ...
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The Science of Negative Thinking
Our thought processes are intimately connected to the way we feel. When you’re feeling content, your thoughts tend to reflect this. In times of happiness, you may be more satisfied with your career progress, perceive your personal relationships as more secure, or have a better body image.
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How to Transmute Your Negative Thoughts
- Create distance from your thoughts: Pay attention to your automatic thoughts and label them as subjective thoughts.
- Start a thought diary: Journal down the date, the time, the event that triggered an emotion, and the resulting negative thought.
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Curing The Negative Self-Image
The cure to a negative self-image formed by your beliefs is to be aware of what you think, speak or do. If you start to recognize your behavioural patterns, your hunger cravings and just pause before a habitual activity is starting, you can get a grip on the underlying emotions that drive these b...
How To Manage Overgeneralization
- Reframe Your Negative Thoughts: Try to identify your negative thoughts and replace them with empowering positive thoughts. Changing your view will decrease the negative symptoms.
- Journaling: Identification of negative thoughts can be done by being ...
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