WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS-THEY’LL FORM YOUR DESTINY

Watch your thoughts, because they’ll become your words. Watch your words, because they’ll become your actions. Watch your actions, because they’ll become your fate. Then eventually, it’ll become your destiny. Popular Saying by Lao Tzu.

Most of the time, you’ve got an inner monologue going on during the waking hours. It seems very innocent, but this inner monologue has a profound influence on your life.Now let’s see,what kind of thoughts prevails in the minds of most people’s?

You are continuously feeding your subconscious mind with irrelevant and negative thoughts, which, in terms, accepts them without any reasoning or filters. You start speaking, acting, and behaving accordingly. This leads to a conflict of mind and of society and makes you double-minded.So be mindful when counteracting negative thoughts then and there.Otherwise, it would linger on in your mind and pollute the thought process.

There are four types of negative thinking: According to Mayo Clinic, there are four main types of it 1-Catastrophizing 2-Personalizing 3-Filtering 4-Polarizing. These are toxic thoughts that adversely effect physical and mental health. It increases anxiety and disturbs your sleep pattern.                                                Common negative thoughts: 1: Why only me? 2: I can’t deal with it effectively  I’m very unlucky  4: I’ll never succeed in life.  I’m not strong enough; I’m rather feeble-minded. 6: I’m not as smart as others. 7: Something bad is going to happen in my life. 8: I’ll not get very far in my life 9: I can’t; I’m always wrong. 10: I’m not a likable person 11-I’ll never change.                                                            Like that, many other negative thoughts haunt your mind.            HOW TO PROTECT FROM TOXIC THOUGHTS.   One must protect himself from all this negative and toxic thinking by using conscious filters. Prevent it from reaching your subconscious brain; otherwise, it’ll accept it as such. 1. You must pay particular attention to suggestions coming from others. 2. Remember that a suggestion that is not accepted has absolutely no effect on your mind. It seems very simple but a lot harder to do. 3- You must respond quickly to any toxic suggestions that you believe are harmful.  Principle of Substitution Substitute any negative suggestions with positive and opposite affirmations. I can do it. I’ll succeed. So be on your guard and be the guardian of your thoughts. Don’t forget, you are what you think. Your thoughts will eventually form your destiny.                                                        Satish Tripathi  sctri48