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Using negative thinking as a tool for your success

Negative + Negative = Positive!

By The Breatharian BloggerPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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We are frequently taught to battle our negative ideas and concentrate on thinking positively. What if we told you that there is a method to use negativity to your advantage?

Too much of anything can be harmful, and optimism is no exception. In fact, a healthy dose of pessimism is healthy and even required. Your mind is subconsciously geared to alert you to potential hazards and keep you safe. When it detects a problem, it searches out additional information about it and gives it precedence over the positives.

The issue arises when you develop a chronic practice of negative thinking, which is unhealthy. This kind of thinking might disrupt your mental calm, making it more difficult to fight the blues over time!

It's undeniably simpler to deal with good feelings than it is to make negativity work for you. However, the latter is both conceivable and advantageous. While there are no fast solutions or shortcuts to accepting and accepting unpleasant feelings, there are a few strategies that can assist you to do so if you practice them frequently.

There are no two persons who are the same. Because we are all unique, it is critical to recognize that some people are more negative than others. It's also critical to anticipate the level of negativity you'll encounter from the individuals you connect with in order to properly deal with it.

The key is to listen to their complaints and ask for solution-oriented input in return. You won't need to spend as much time or energy justifying negativity after you've learnt to expect it.

You may ignore it and focus solely on the occasions when they say something surprising, which will most likely be a rare occurrence. The goal is to strike when you get a negative response by addressing their complaints and turning them into something useful.

Negative individuals will always exist, but you may take advantage of their comments by letting go of the problem or turning it into a good scenario. You should have no problem dealing with negative individuals if you approach them with this mindset.

Furthermore, some studies have demonstrated that negatively impacts us more readily since the human brain responds more powerfully to it. So, if you have a day packed with optimism and only a single moment of negativity, you will most likely focus on the latter rather than the former. There is, however, a method to make this work in your favor.

While finding some pleasant memories to focus on might help to counteract the negative impacts of negativity, you will continue to feel awful as long as you are in that scenario. If you want to get the greatest outcomes, try training your brain to reduce the effect of harsh words so you don't feel so bad when someone tramples on your sentiments.

Make it a practice to separate negative ideas from actions if you wish to achieve this. Simply tell yourself bad things, but then do something to prove those words false.

The more you use basic acts to combat negativity, the better you'll be able to teach your mind to do so when someone criticizes you. Furthermore, you may use this to your advantage by allowing it to put things into perspective for you.

Sometimes, while knowing full well that doing so might leave us feeling trapped in limbo, we keep thinking about bad things said or done to us in the past. However, there are several advantages to feeling better about it. For one thing, you may finally accept it. Thus, know that everything happens in your life for a reason and if negative things are happening, there are bound to be positivity coming your way also!

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