Be grateful for a few of the things you may often take for granted. - Deepstash
How to Cope With Intrusive Thoughts

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

How to overcome unwanted thoughts

How to manage intrusive thoughts

How to change your attitude towards intrusive thoughts

How to Cope With Intrusive Thoughts

Discover 68 similar ideas in

It takes just

10 mins to read

Be grateful for a few of the things you may often take for granted.

When we get negative it’s easy to forget the positive things in life. Especially the ones that are just a normal part of life that we may take for granted a bit too often.

  • Three steady meals a day.
  • A roof over my head during the cold nights and the rainy and windy days.
  • As much clean water as I want.
  • Kind and helpful family and friends.

85

165 reads

MORE IDEAS ON THIS

Live in and come back to this moment.

Start making it a habit to spend more of your time in the present moment and you’ll, in my experience, naturally have less negative thoughts and be more open and constructive.

A couple of ways to bring yourself back to being mindful and this moment are:

Focus only on your brea...

82

157 reads

Reminder: people don’t care that much about what you say or do.

Because the truth is that people don’t have that much time, attention or energy to think or talk about what you do.

They have their hands and minds full with their kids, jobs, pets, hobbies and their own fears and worries (like for example what people may think of them).

95

252 reads

Replace the negativity in your surroundings.

Ask yourself:

What are the top 3 sources of negativity in my life?

It could be people, websites, magazines, podcasts, music and so on.

Then ask yourself:

What can I do to spend less time with these 3 sources this week?

If you can’t f...

87

182 reads

Bring positivity in someone else's life

If you get stuck in negative thoughts or victim thinking then one of the simplest ways to get out of your own head and the thoughts bouncing around in there is to focus outwards and on someone else.

By adding positivity to his or her life in some way you too can start to feel be...

83

150 reads

Let it out and talk it over.

Keeping negative thoughts that are starting to cloud your whole mind bottled up won’t help.

So let them out. Talk the situation or your thoughts over with someone close to you.

79

194 reads

When you’re in what seems like a negative situation, find what’s good.

...to counteract that ask yourself better questions.

Questions that will help you to feel better but also to learn so you can grow.

Questions like:

  • What’s one good thing about this situation?
  • What’s one thing I can do differentl...

96

359 reads

Start tomorrow in a way that sets a positive tone for your day.

A pessimistic or negative start makes it hard to turn things around. But a positive start makes it a lot easier to just keep going with that emotion and the optimistic way of thinking until it is bedtime again.

A couple of simple ways to get your day off to a positive start is:

...

78

152 reads

Go for a short workout

...go for a 20-30 minute workout and lift some free weights.

This helps me to release inner tension and worries. And it makes my mind focused and constructive once again.

79

263 reads

Question the thought.

I ask myself:

Should I take you seriously?

This most often leads me to say: well, no, I honestly shouldn't.

Because at that moment in time I’m tired. Or hungry. Or overworked and so negativity can try to cloud my mind.

Or I am getting too focused on one sm...

87

235 reads

Don’t let the vague fears drag you down.

When you start to ground a fear and begin to look at it with your feet firmly planted on the ground then you most often realize that the worst that could happen isn’t really that bad.

...you can also probably start listing and taking action on a few things that will reduce the likelihood of...

76

131 reads

Stop making mountains out of molehills.

To stop a small negative thought from becoming a big monster in your mind confront it early.

Do that by asking yourself a question like:

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even 5 weeks?

...answer is likely in most cases that it won’t and that you were only star...

90

191 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

azharalam

Being an INFJ... " Every soul has to taste death' one day, so be kind to everyone, even when he's your enemy "

Related collections

Other curated ideas on this topic:

A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For 🙏

A Few Things Still to Be Grateful For 🙏

  • Most of the 78 organs in our bodies have performed pretty reliably since the day we were born.
  • Everyone messes up their life quite a bit. 
  • We’ve sometimes been surprised by how things turned out. 

View Your Life In A Grateful Way Which Inspires You

View your life as an inspirational tale, not a horror movie. The stories we tell ourselves and the roles we play determine the quality and direction of our lives. I regularly work with realtors (an industry that, admittedly, has a tough row to hoe these days). The best ones are a...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates