Hey Besties! Turning negative thoughts positive could be a challenge, especially when you’re overwhelmed. Maybe you are rejecting positive thoughts because you feel like you deserve the negative.
If you’re in this place, you are not alone. I remember when negativity was in my corner for so long that I thought that negative thoughts were the only thoughts I could have.
Bestie, there is hope for you and you’re gonna enjoy learning how to be embrace positive thinking.
Today we’re going to take a look at the concept of positive reframing and explore how we can use it to turn negative thoughts, positive.
Through simple steps you’ll learn how to flip the switch to help you you cultivate a more positive mindset.
Are you ready? Let’s Geaux!
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When something happens in your life, naturally, you label it as a positive or negative experience. The truth is that the experience is neutral, but you have a perception that tells you otherwise.
What if the last experience you labeled as negative was actually positive?
For example, an unexpected train on the track before work could’ve prevented you from seeing an ex that broke your heart. Or a rejection you faced could’ve been a stepping stone for you to overcome one of the hardest battles of your life.
You never know the true intention behind why God allows something to happen in your life, so don’t be so quick to label your experiences.
What Is Positive Reframing
Positive reframing is a technique that helps you to see opportunities in opposition. It’s a shift in your perspective.
This technique is widely used in therapy and the idea is to help you to understand that your perspective is only a small piece of the puzzle.
When you filter your situation through your perspective alone, you end up limiting yourself and God.
This is not to say that your feelings about your experience aren’t valid. You have a right to feel the way you feel, but you have to remember that your feelings need to be filtered through God’s perspective.
Just like the car lights on the dashboard light up to indicate its needs, your feelings “light” up to indicate your needs. What has your feelings been trying to tell you lately?
Emotional Regulation: Why Can’t I Control My Emotions
You are not your emotions or your actions that follow your emotions. The biggest reason why you feel that you can’t control your emotions is because you were never taught how to do so.
You can’t be in control of your emotions until you create a healthy relationship with them.
3 Ways To Control Your Emotions
1. Stop Judging Yourself (and your emotions)
Your emotions don’t make you good or bad so you need to stop judging yourself based on how you feel. Judging yourself will only leave you feeling worse.
It’s completely okay for you to feel your emotions and respond to them. If you feel sad or discouraged, your natural response may be to cry and that’s okay.
Men and women are human beings that were gifted emotions by God. Society may say you are weak for showing your emotions, but that is a lie.
Stop judging yourself for expressing your emotions. You are human.
2. Feel Your Emotions
If you want to master anything, you will have to take the time to learn whatever it is, you want to master. Your emotions will be with you forever so you have time to learn what they are trying to tell you.
Have you ever sat back and allowed yourself to feel your feelings without immediately self soothing? Trying to stay busy to avoid feeling your feelings is going to put you on the path of self destruction.
Learning how to control your emotions, will require you to understand and identify them.
3. Filter Your Thoughts
Do you trust that your thoughts are helpful to you? More than often, your thoughts can, and will lie to you.
Most of the time your thoughts can be based on your feelings.
Remember your perception is not the only view of a situation. You may feel like you can’t control your emotions because you’re believing every thought that comes into your mind.
It’s time that you filter your thoughts by challenging them with a few questions.
3 Ways To Turn Negative Thoughts Positive
1. Identify The Negative Thought
What is one negative thought that consistently pops into your mind? For example, you could be on a weight loss journey and you’re negative thought it could be “I’ll never lose weight”.
Write the negative thought down so that when it pops into your mind again, you can identify it as a lie.
2. Challenge The Thought
Ask yourself: Is this thought based off of facts or feelings?
Let’s go back to our example that says “I’ll never lose weight”. If you’ve been exercising and eating healthy, you will eventually lose weight. It may not happen as fast as you’d like, but it will happen.
A thought like this one may come often when you weigh yourself on a scale. In this case, you will have to look for other indications of weight loss, such as a looser fit in your clothes or progress pictures.
You can also take account how you feel. Again, there is never one way for anything.
3. Flip The Negative Thought
Once you are able to successfully identify and challenge the negative thought, you can flip the thought into a positive. If your thought is saying that you’ll never lose weight but you were doing everything you know to do, you can use your evidence to flip it.
Flipping our example thought can be as simple as: I’m getting healthier by the day. Every negative thought can be flipped as you practice these three steps.
Turning negative thoughts positive doesn’t have to be a challenge anymore. You no longer have to be a victim to negative thinking.
Learning the power of positive reframing can get you out of the cycle of negative thinking onto a path of positive thoughts and bliss.
It was a practice, but with time and effort you can flip the switch and start to see the positive in every situation. This blog was all about turning negative thoughts, positive.
Remember, you’re destined to Win because he got up.
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