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Where do automatic negative

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By M.Farouk Radwan, MSc.

Positive & negative thinking

Is your mind haunted by negative

thoughts?

You were feeling OK then all of a sudden

you started getting negative thoughts and
your mood changed, what happened?

Where do negative thoughts come from?

Why does our mood change all of a sudden?

In order to help you answer these questions i

have to first ask you another one. Do you
know why some people can't live without
their IPOD?

Because their minds are already full of

negative thoughts and they always need
some kind of distraction to push the negative
thoughts away.

Social interaction, music, drinking and even

drugs can be a person's preferred
escapement method from the negative
thoughts lingering in his mind.

Do you know why some people feel really

bad when they are alone?
Its because they fall prey to their own
negative thoughts and that's why they
always seek distraction in order to escape
from these thoughts.

Where do automatic negative

thoughts come from
Lets suppose that a plate which had rotten
food was spoiling the smell of your room,
what would be the best way to get rid of the
smell?

Should you buy a Fan or get rid of the plate?

While the second choice is obviously the one
that will be chosen by most rational people
still most people do the opposite when
dealing with negative thoughts.

When trying to deal with negative thoughts

most people will do their best to get rid of the
smell instead of the food. Most people try to
get rid of the negative thoughts directly using
the different distracting methods without
realizing that the only way to end negative
thoughts is to change the beliefs that
caused them in the first place.

"I am sure they didn't like me" That's a

popular negative thought but did you ever try
to find out what caused it? Most probably
this thought is a symptom of a limiting
belief such as "I am not an interesting
person"

Now what do you think would happen if the

person who got that negative thought
distracted himself using an Ipod?

The negative thought will always remain

there and this person will get it again as
soon as the distraction ends.

How to end automatic negative

thoughts for good

Here is a quick formula that will help you

reduce automatic negative thoughts:

1)Understand that distraction is not

the soloution: In my book, The ultimate
guide to getting over depression i said
that the soloution to ending negative
thoughts does not lie in distraction. Its OK
to distract your self in a healthy way as
long as you are working on a plan to end
the negative thoughts
2) Learn How emotions change: Your
mind will usually present you with an
important problem before it changes your
mood, if it got a good response from you
then most likely your emotions won't
change. Here is an example, lets
suppose that a religious man, who was
lost in the desert, suddenly visualized
himself dying out of thirst. If that man
calmed his mind down by saying that God
will help him then most probably he won't
feel anxious or afraid. Now compare this
to someone who has nothing to reassure
his mind with, most probably this person
will feel anxious and afraid after getting
such a thought unless he provides some
kind of reassurance.
3) Change your core beliefs: The best
way to end automatic negative thoughts
for good is to change the beliefs that
caused them. By removing the source of
the negative thoughts you will be able to
think positively (see Changing limiting
beliefs)

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