Positive Thinking Vs Negative Thinking

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Extend your positive thinking form negative thinking
“We don’t have to control our thoughts; we just have to stop letting them control us”
- Dan Millman

Stress is directed result of thoughts and attitudes. When stressed or worried, a person’s thoughts tend to dwell on negativity. A person’s negative thoughts are nearly always exaggerated and distorted. While light travel at the rate of 1, 86,000 miles seconds, thoughts travel virtually instantaneously.
Automatic Negative Thoughts It is so easy and there are so many ways to be wrong, but it is so hard and there are so few ways to be right. Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Which came first: the stress or negative thoughts? Stress is the result of negative thoughts. …show more content…

• 40% of the time we worry about things that never happen – anxiety is the result of a tired mind.
• 30% concern old decisions that cannot be changed.
• 12% relate to untrue criticism made by people who feel inferior.
• 10% is related to health that worsens while we worry.
• O8% is legitimate, showing that life does have real problems that may be met head on when we have eliminated senseless worries.
• Directors worry about quality of professional advice and integrity of professional.
An expert was giving an address in meeting on stress management. He raises a glass of water and asks the audience. “How heavy do think this glass of water is?” he told the answer as “it depends on how long you hold it”.
“IF we hold it for a minute, it has no problem and it is acceptable.
If we hold it for an hour we will get ache in our right arm.
If we hold it for a day even we could be admitted in the hospital”
But the weight of the glass water is same. It becomes heavier how long we hold …show more content…

If we feel extremely controlled, we see ourselves as happiness, as victim of fate. The fallacy of internal control is that it holds us responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around us. On the other hand, feeling externally controlled keeps us stuck. We don’t believe that we cn really affect the basic shape of our life. The truth of the matter is that we are constantly making decisions, and that every decision affects our lives. The fallacy of internal control leaves us exhausted as we attempt to fill the needs of everyone around us, and feel responsible in doing so(and guilty when we cannot)
12. Erroneous belief of Fairness
We feel resentful because we think we know what fair.Fairness is so conveniently defined, so temptingly self-serving, that we get locked into our own point of view. It is tempting to make assumptions about things would change if only people were fair or really valued us. But the other person hardly ever sees it that way, and we end up causing ourselves a lot of pain and ever-growing resentment.
13. Intention and

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