Tips for Challenging Negative Thoughts & Self-Lies
E veryone is troubled with negative thoughts or cognitive lies about themselves or situations or abilities at some point in their lives. When the brain goes into a negative mode, it can eat away your positiveness, productiveness, creativity, and general fulfillment. Negative thoughts are harmless unless you believe in them. In fact, believing in negative thoughts permits harmful content more influence and power over how you act, believe, feel, react, and think. Whether aware of it or not the average person thinks anywhere from 11,000 to 70,000 thoughts or more per day. Amazingly, 85 percent of people's thoughts are negative. Repetitious negative thinking trains the brain to focus more on the negative rather than positive thoughts . It is human nature to focus on the negative thoughts to fix them or make things right and take positive thoughts for granted. To be more positive and productive negative thinking, ruminations and cognitive lies have to be turned around by taki
