“Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.” — Louise Hay
Many of our problems are a result of interpreting events in unhelpful ways. But why would we do that? To answer that question we need to think about thinking. An important insight is that not all of the thinking that goes on in our heads is slow, careful, deliberate, or accurate .When faced with a problem we can choose to respond carefully by thinking of possible solutions and then examining the advantages and disadvantages of each, or we might just have a quick and automatic idea about how to solve it. Key things that you need to know are:
Information: Did you know that thousands of thoughts cross our mind through the day.
Study has suggested that an average person has 6200 and sometimes 7000 Thoughts per day! Ohhh can you believe that?
To understand more, firstly we must acknowledge what thoughts are?
Thoughts are a language happening on a deeper level of your existence. For human mind, thoughts are like heart for your body it is hard to imagine existence of one without the other.
They are a huge part of your mind and no matter if you like or dislike your thoughts you are perceiving them and they do exist. They pop up in your head. Some, you ignore, some get stuck on your mind for days, weeks, month and even years becoming a sound track played on the default.
And here is an accurate info to recognize: Your mind’s functions are thinking, reasoning, perceiving, feeling, memorizing, evaluating, etc. It should not be a storage room for you to keep all the worries, ideas, and random unconscious thoughts in indistinguishable loads and bundles.
You are NOT your Thoughts ; I would say your thoughts does not 100% define who you are but what you think sooner or later will affect what you do and gradually become WHO YOU ARE..
The way we think (our cognitions) and what we do (our behavior) affects the way we feel. It follows that if we want to change the way we feel then we will need to make changes to the way we think and act.
Yet many allow negative and destructive thoughts pop up inside of their mind where they experience an unpleasant occurrences as anxiety, poor self-esteem distraction, lack of focus, mood swings and other mental costs of messy mind which will lead to unpleasant circumstances…furthermore Many people even complain that they can’t sleep immediately after going to bed as their brain does not stop thinking…
Interpretation matters.
Scientific fact to consider; at any life events, it is not the events that bother us! Instead, it is the way that we interpret events; the meaning that we give to them that gives rise to our feelings. This explains why two people experiencing the same event can react in completely different ways.
Here is a scenario: You are having coffee with your friend and some other friend walks past without acknowledging you .
= Feeling (tension, anxious).
= Feeling (relaxed, concern for friend)
Gaining control of your thoughts is a powerful and essential skill that elevates your self -esteem, focus, performance and awareness. Every day is filled with many occasions to let Destructive or Constructive o thinking rule your life.
Your thoughts about yourself, your abilities, what possible and what impossible are just: Thoughts, unless you try them and then make experience-based conclusions.
Observing your thought simply means be aware of what you are thinking, the contents, the roots of it, how it arises and how it affects you. Or simply it is about your ability to think about what you think about?
The only thing that can separate you from your thoughts is your ACTION. Challenge your thoughts by changing them and practice asking yourself the following: