One Thought

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E{ :-}Greetings: As I was just reading my e-mail this morning I came

across this quotation. I decided to pass this on because it struck me

as being so elementary.

" Your conscious mind can only hold one thought at a time, positive or

negative. You can decide to be happy by substituting positive thoughts

for negative ones. " --

I know that this is not the be all or the solution to everything, but if

we can stop ourselves and literally switch from negative to positive, I

think it has some merit.

Blessings

E. Darwent

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Hi ,

As always, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! I refer to the negative

thoughts in my head as the " committe " . They don't have anything good to say

at any time. Some professionals even say we can put a face to those negative

thoughts. Thank you for reminding me to switch gears!

Kathleen in Calif.

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Darwent wrote:

> <snipped>

> I know that this is not the be all or the solution to everything, but if

> we can stop ourselves and literally switch from negative to positive, I

> think it has some merit.

Many moons ago, I realized that my negative thinking had gotten way out of

hand. When I would make a mistake, I would think something like " Jeez, you can

be stupid sometimes! " or " Damn, you can't do anything right! "

If anyone else had spoken to me that way, I would have been offended, yet there

I was -- talking like that to myself. Even swearing at myself! I also discovered

that, in my head, I was consistently painting worse case scenarios instead of

best case scenarios.

I decided to put an elastic (rubber band) around my wrist and every time I found

myself putting myself down, I snapped the elastic. Ditto for the negative

thinking.

For the first month, I had sore wrists and wore out a few dozen elastics. Month

two was a lot less painful :-) By the end of month three, I realized that I had

actually changed my self-talk. I didn't need the elastics anymore, because I

had successfully altered the way I viewed myself and the rest of the world.

Psychotherapy made easy! :-)

--

Lyndi