Negative Thoughts Are Fantastic

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You know the kind I’m talking about. That little voice that runs through your mind often telling you life is too hard, or your not good enough, or you can’t have something you really want, or it cost too much. Or how about those thoughts you have when paying the bills and there’s not enough money to go around. These thoughts, if left unchecked, repeated over and over, tend to drag us down and make it even more difficult to find the path toward a more enlightened, enjoyable life.

Trying to discipline your mind in order to keep those negative thoughts out of your head is like trying to hold water in a net. It’s like trying to not think about a pink elephant. Your going to have them. Its a given and there is no sense in attempting the impossible. Individual mind control can become tiring, frustrating and often self defeating. But there is another way…. a way to use negative thoughts to your advantage.

Let me offer a solution that might help you think about this another way. The goal is not to get rid of negative thoughts, but rather use them to guide you to thoughts that are more in line with what you desire. Bear with me on this while I use an extremely simple example.

Suppose you want a new car. But you believe you can’t have one. For whatever reason, you feel you cannot afford the one you want so you get down on yourself. Your thoughts become negative and before you know it, you feel depressed. One thought leads to another… you don’t make enough money, you’ll never get a better job in order to afford this car, much less pay your current bills. You keep focused on the fact you can’t afford the new car you desire and you continue to feel bad and your thoughts continue to spiral downward.

Instead, suppose you let those negative thoughts trigger a sign post within yourself… to wake you up, and turn your attention away from what you don’t want…the lack of a new car. Choose your thoughts. Instead of thinking about the car you can’t have, think about the car you can and will have. Doesn’t it feel much better? It feels more empowering. Begin to see yourself driving your new car. Your mind has now triggered your thought process to look for ways you can achieve your desire. Beforehand, you might have just accepted the fact you couldn’t have the car you wanted and probably would’ve given up on your desire.

I understand this is a very simplistic example, but the point is made. Negative thoughts are powerful triggers that are there as reminders to change your focus. It is your inner self, shaking you, screaming at you, rattling your cage, letting you know you are not on the path to obtaining everything you desire in life.

Negative thoughts are essential in helping you keep your focus on what it is you desire… not what you do not desire. See the difference? If I am feeling negative or having negative thoughts about something, it is a clue or signal to myself to turn my attention toward what I’m wanting… that I’ve been giving too much attention to something that doesn’t please me.

Over a period of time, if consistently practiced, those thoughts you consider negative will occur less and less. Its been my experience that if negative thoughts are not charged with much emotion, they don’t tend to affect my life in any substantial way. Its not a matter of stopping negative thoughts from occurring but using them as essential tools to keep you focused on your life’s fondest desire’s.

Copyright © 2006 by Robert Hunt