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Questioning Our Thoughts
We need to learn to actually challenge our cognitive distortions and negative thoughts, and question how real or accurate they are. We need to question and examine the veracity of our distorted ways of seeing reality and replace them with more accurate, adaptive, realistic, and uplifting thoughts that motivate us to strive to act and be the highest and best versions of ourselves.
We can choose to reinforce healthy, rather than harmful, choices, habits, and behaviors. Reframing our assumptions is the first step.
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What To Do To End The Spiral Of Bad Thoughts
- Surround yourself with people who enhance, support, and inspire you, lifting you up and helping you see the good among the challenges in life.
- This includes minimizing sources of stress by setting healthy boundaries around exposure to critical, combative, and negative people—as well...
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The Main Cause Of Pessimism
Negative thoughts and chronic pessimism can stem from many triggers far beyond stressors we’re living in the moment, including self-destructive patterns and even unresolved childhood experiences and traumas that evolve to inform perceptions and impede personal growth.
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A Warning Sign
Negative manifestations act as a warning for the larger ones to come unless you take positive action to stop the process, rather than reverting to past patterns that undermine optimism. You have the ability to observe a negative thought objectively, without judgment, and then choose to release an...
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Why Are Thoughts Are Negative
We as humans might be built for negativity, making us our own worst enemy. This, as other research casts doubt on so-called optimism bias, debunking the notion that some peo...
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We need to become super aware of our thoughts to be able to tinker with them. We can see what the harmful effects could be and stop believing or acting out those thoughts. We can make a humble effort to change them if possible.
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Questioning our values
Once you begin to question the significance of everything that happens in your life, you may realize that much of what you believe and value was not determined by you but by the people and culture around you.
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Improving our ability to cope
While there's little we can do to change the realities of a global crisis we can change the mindset we use to face them.
- Channel your inner lawyer. Verbalize the negative assumptions you make about the future, then dispute them with realistic facts, not mindless opti...
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