The power of positive thinking is crucial to your health and well-being. Did you know that? Well I’m telling you today that if you want good physical, mental and emotional health, the power of positive thinking is what you need to do.

Can you hazard a guess of how many thoughts we have each and every day? Well I’ve read it’s between 70,000 to 100,000 thoughts each and every single day! That’s a lot of thoughts, don’t you agree? They might be thoughts of tastes, smells, pondering, thoughts of yourself, or even what you could be doing instead of reading this blog! Can I ask you though, how do you know which thoughts to pay attention to?

Quite simply, the thoughts we pay attention to are the thoughts that have some kind of meaning to us.

But how easy is it to fall into a trap of negative automatic thoughts? It’s very easy! I should know because probably like you, I have been there myself. I’d tell myself that I was worthless, that I wasn’t very intelligent or that no-one would really like me if I wanted to talk to someone new! I don’t think that makes me anything unique. I guess we all land ourselves in a negative cycle from time to time.

So if I have a thought spring into my head right now that said ‘oh no-one is going to think this blog is interesting’, it would evoke some kind of emotion. Probably a feeling of failure, worthlessness and would result in me perhaps scrapping this blog post.

– So let’s try to visualise that –

THOUGHT + MEANING = EMOTION







Who can relate to that? My guess is that you do. You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t experience some level of negativity from time to time. It’s so easy though to get trapped in that negative thought cycle though, but if you’ve got this far with this blog I want you to try to do something for me. Is that okay? It won’t take up much of your time at all, and hey who knows, you might end up feeling great afterwards?

Have you ever stopped to just tell yourself something good about yourself? My guess is not because as people we generally see our shortcomings a lot easier than the amazing things unique to us.

It might be that you are a great artist, or the best friend anyone could wish for. Are you a devoted mother or father, adept at writing or are you fit as a fiddle with a hot body?

I want you to explore for 10 minutes your experiences. What makes you special and just what makes you amazing? I then want you to tell yourself just how amazing you really are every day until you start to see just how amazing you are!

Maybe you could share some of your thoughts on the power of positive thinking or affirmations/positive things about yourself in the comments section of this blog? I’d love to read them and hear from you all. Alternatively you could tell people about this blog on world mental health day 🙂

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