Your predominant thoughts influence your behaviour and attitude while controlling your actions and reactions. Thoughts that pass through your mind determine the kind of life you live and the experiences you meet. To make changes in your life you must change your thought process.
Studies have proven we may have as many as 50,000 thoughts per day, but just because we think something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true- however it becomes your reality or your truth.
It’s often the first thought of this sequence that dictates if the resulting emotions are positive or negative. All it takes is one seemingly harmless negative thought to invoke a chain of increasingly negative thoughts that lead to anger, frustration, or even depression.
Hard science has proven emotions affect your physical health; thoughts evoke emotions and can directly influence the release of hormones and neurotransmitters. The stress response is an excellent example of this. By causing stress, negative thoughts provoke a physiological response that breaks the body down. If this response is invoked often enough, the stress that’s causing it will ultimately lead to chronic health problems. For this reason, it’s important to both your health and your happiness that you reframe your negative thoughts in a positive way as often as you can.
– Having gratitude for anything and everything that’s going well in your life has proven to effectively increase happiness and reduce depression.
– A daily positive mantra is a good reminder of what you’re capable of, what your goals are and instills feelings of self worth. Find a mantra that resonates with you and your life at the moment.
– Through meditation, as you fall asleep or even during exercise make an effort to think about nothing. It is surprisingly difficult at first when your mind wants to just keep racing but with practice it becomes easier and leads to a decrease in stress and increase in creativity.
– Listen to the rhetoric in your own head, you can’t change your story unless you’re aware of what’s being played.
In time small changes and new habits will add up, at the end of the day you have to put the work into achieve your goals but having the confidence that you are capable of meeting your own expectations is the first step to success and real change.