Monday, October 25, 2021
Negative thinking, and the unpleasant emotions that comes with it, doesn’t have to rule you. You have the power of choice. You can chose to follow the negative, repeated narrative in your mind, or you can focus your awareness on creating a new, more positive, and productive narrative – one that actually helps you. The automatic response of the mind is usually negative, but your choice to switch the thought pattern into something more useful and helpful, is a matter of awareness.
Too often, we allow our attention span to be undermined by the brain’s overthinking – usually in a negative way. Negative thinking weakens you, but the power of paying attention, strengthens you. Attention is like a radar, and if you’re sitting at the controls, you can hone in on what thoughts occupy your mind. But you have to have the awareness to notice when your mind is trying to hijack your attention, when it starts rambling on and on about all of your so-called woes and problems. Who is in control? The mind’s automatic narrative or your power to chose what goes into it?
Keep watch over the mind, and stand firm in your resolve to observe what might be causing your negative emotions. When the mind spins down into despair, take it as a call to arms do something to spin it up again! Be determined to be the gatekeeper over your mind. The power it seems to have over you is only a dream. Real power is in how you chose to focus your attention on the present moment, and on your ability to change the channel of thought into something that is actually useful in your life. Exercise the power of focus, and take control over what you pay attention to! You don’t have to pay attention to every single thought that pops into your head – that’s too distracting.