![]() Recurring negative thoughts do nothing but make you feel bad and diminished in some way, and most often hold no purpose in serving your well-being. The only way we can know what a thought is trying to convey is by questioning it, and that means finding out where it came from, what it’s doing there, and what purpose it serves for your well being.Ī positive thought is useful and productive, and makes you feel good about yourself. That isn’t a problem if it’s a productive thought like reminding you to pay a bill, or call a parent you haven’t spoken to recently, for instance, but if it’s a recurring thought that’s negative or causing anxiety for no apparent reason, that can be an issue. And if you don’t pay attention to it, it’s probably going to stick around and make sure that you do. Even if it recedes somewhere to the back of our mind, it will usually pop up again, sometimes when we least expect it, especially in times of stress, agitation or flux.Ī thought that doesn’t go away is a thought that’s trying to tell you something more than just what’s on the surface. That’s usually because we have some kind of energy or an emotion around it, and it just doesn’t seem to go away. The reason: a particular thought can pop up, and it gets our attention more than the others, especially if it’s negative. But, if even half of our thoughts we think each day are negative, it’s easy to see how letting those thoughts exist unchecked and unquestioned can make staying positive, productive and goal-oriented difficult. Have you ever considered questioning your thoughts, or do you just accept whatever comes into your head as normal thinking? Most of us probably don’t think about questioning our thoughts. ![]() Are Your Thoughts Really Yours: How Well Do You Know Them? That’s quite a lot of thoughts! But how well do we know our thoughts? You may think, “Of course I know my thoughts! I’m the one having them!” But just being aware that you’re having thoughts is not the same as knowing them- that is, their origin, how they affect you, whether they are reasonable and realistic, or even whether you can have power over them. A recent statistic claims we can think up to 70,000 thoughts per day.
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