Episode #151 Negative thoughts: How to observe and detach from them

Can you eliminate all your negative thoughts for the rest of your life?

Maybe not, but you can certainly manage them effectively.

When you try to resent your negative thoughts, they often persist and become louder.

Therefore the trick is not to stop your thoughts in track or exercise fake positivity, but rather, not to identify with everything you think.

Let’s say there is a limiting belief you adopted in your childhood which you labeled as negative. Since this pattern of negative thoughts has been reestablished over many years, it’s natural for your mind to keep bringing the same recycled thoughts back.

Since your mind is literally like a muscle, you want to learn to train it as such.

Detaching from negative thoughts and overcoming your thinking patterns

In today’s episode, I will talk about how identification with our negative thoughts keeps us stuck in limiting thinking patterns.

I will also teach you about the power of the pause and how to become an observer of what you are thinking without being sucked into it. Additionally, I will share a mindfulness exercise to help with mind identification.

Last but not least, we will also look at the most obvious power we all have – the power of choice.

Here is a glance at this episode…

[02:10] Managing our negative thoughts, looking at stress and anxiety in today’s world and why we shouldn’t accept it as the only way of life.

[04:24] What it means to identify with our thoughts, how to work through them, and an example of mind identification

[06:44] Practicing the power of PAUSE, being conscious instead of compulsive

[09:37] Detaching from what you think or what your thoughts mean by using this simple, yet powerful mindfulness exercise

[12:32] Choosing growth over comfort and embracing new ways of thinking. Summing up what it means to detach from the mind and become in charge of how you think.