Just When Thoughts Become Thinking

One negative thought, suddenly turns into two, three, four, five and before you know it, your energy is absorbed and caught up in two hundred thoughts coming towards you at the speed of a comet. This is the hag with thoughts; before you know it, you are emerged in a sea of them.

“Oh, I am not sure you look very nice in that dress”

Or

“Perhaps you shouldn’t have said that, it didn’t sound right”

The inner voice of a human being works in all sorts of mysterious ways, it has both gentleness and clarity, which again is accompanied by a familiar physical feeling, perhaps a sinking feeling down the belly or an ache in the shoulder, a twitch or a tingling in the fingers.

Furthermore within mili-seconds, we hear another thought arriving slightly louder, the physical sensations launch into a tighter grip.

“You really don’t look very nice in that, mind you, you NEVER look nice”

Or

“You are always saying the wrong thing, why don’t you just shut up!”

Or

“Don’t even bother trying anymore, you are useless!”

Negativity will hold you back, weigh you down, and drain your energy into little bits of ashes. This is how it works with pace:

-         The train approaches, first thought enters.

-         You climb on board without realizing the destination, because by now you are familiar to this journey.

-         Further, the train begins to escalate, the second thought pops up.

-         With the speed of a comet, your third, twentieth, hundredth thought, each trying to outdo the previous one.

-         On you go, one thought after another, suffering your way through the negative thinking.

Visualize how your thinking can speed up and take you places you don’t want to go.  “When you hear that first little thought, just chase it away”. Train your mind to be stronger than your emotions, or else be prepared to lose yourself every time. Sometimes, consciousness doesn’t do the needful until it’s too late. It makes you believe that you deserve these negative thoughts but, ultimately as Carl Jung quotes "There is no coming to consciousness without pain”.

In the end, our minds are connected with memory. Minute something goes awry in life, our default position gets triggered. Before getting settled for a job, we gather evidences to make sure it is secure with high professional benefits but, yet the odd thing with negative, self-critical thinking is we just seem to accept the voice. When things feel off, we don’t research or check the reason behind punishing ourselves. However, even if we do come to terms with it, we do very little to change our thought process regarding it.

Observe your thoughts, create an awareness of how you behave when you feel have gone wrong or when something becomes overwhelming. Notice the first thought and accept it. Allow yourself to understand why it is where, why it has pulled you into a negative state of mind. Take steps to change your behavior towards it, control your thoughts before it picks up the speed.

This won’t resolve the issue but, it will give your clarity in life. Don’t you want a more positive way of dealing with problems? Being patient does the work, our brains need help changing their natural flow of behavior and by doing this we can change those patterns.

-         Notice the first thought.

-         Acknowledge it is there and understand why.

-         Take  control to dismiss this thought

-         Change the destination of your thoughts.