What are you thinking about during many of your waking hours? I've noticed that many of my friends dwell on worrisome thoughts of one type or another. Many people spend a great deal of time reacting to shocking stories they hear on the media, for one example. There are also many people who allow themselves to be manipulated by envious friends, who in subtle ways take away their confidence. Remember, people who know us well also know where our soft spots are, and though it hurts to think they would ever want to hurt us, we have to look at their background; have they perhaps not had any of the lucky breaks that we had? And therefore, can we overlook their envious feelings? Family members can also get us feeling inadequate. Parents saying "you're not a good son or daughter", children saying, "you're not a good mother or father". These kinds of statements, from those who mean the world to us, can leave us distraught and confused.
So what should we do to clear our minds of all kinds of intense worries? I will simply offer you some advice I read many many years ago in a tract that was handed to me in the street. Basically. the tract said to be alert to when these worrisome thoughts enter your mind. It then said, if we want to push a negative thought out of our mind, we need to be prepared with a healthy, positive thought we can put in to take its place. So the idea is to come up with a list of positive thoughts that we can push into our minds when we want to push a negative thought out. We also would, as much as we can, prepare ourselves with a list the negative, bothersome thoughts that we want to eliminate.
I had to persevere at it a little, but believe it or not this simple technique worked for me. It helped me get control of my thinking.
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