Challenge your Thinking
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The document discusses the nature of thinking and provides suggestions for managing excessive or negative thoughts. It notes that thinking can either feel controlled or uncontrolled and can lead to worry, rumination, stress, and anxiety. It recommends practicing mindfulness to live in the present moment and challenge negative thoughts in order to move forward. Managing one's thinking is important for mental wellbeing.
Challenge your Thinking
- 1. and celebrate who you are Challenge Thinking
- 2. Every day you move forward with your mind
- 3. and your body shuffles along...
- 4. Every moment that you decide to be here with us
- 5. you are making an active choice to be a part of all of this
- 7. and every day you know just a little more than the day before
- 8. so you can move forward
- 9. and every day you get closer
- 10. to knowing more about
- 11. what it is that you want
- 12. which is something you don’t know about as much as you would like
- 13. and that is the story of your experience
- 14. now you will not know what is coming next
- 15. and predictions about what is to come will only get you so far
- 16. but you can be rest assured that
- 17. what is coming
- 18. will involve you
- 19. and will most certainly be
- 20. something you never could have imagined
- 21. thinking can make it feel as if you are in complete control
- 22. and thinking can also make it feel as if you have no control at all
- 23. excessive thinking can turn into worry or rumination
- 24. rumination can worsen and lead to stress and anxiety cc: porschelinn - https://www.flickr.com/photos/54144062@N03
- 26. we still only know very little about how the mind works
- 27. now for the most part thinking is a normal part of you
- 28. it is something that has always been with you
- 29. it is as if you have had your own personal musician
- 30. following you around since you were young
- 31. playing tunes
- 32. in the background of your experience
- 33. and thinking can be more debilitating
- 34. depending on what you are going through
- 35. and how you are feeling
- 36. you can try to bring your thinking under your control by force
- 37. but that is like trying to stop the flow of water from an exploding fire hydrant
- 38. thinking can even make it feel like you are a prisoner of your own reality
- 39. when this happens it can feel like the world is closing in on you cc: c@rljones - https://www.flickr.com/photos/17149966@N00
- 40. and it can feel like you are losing control cc: Giulia Bartra - https://www.flickr.com/photos/10710862@N06
- 42. you get from missing a step cc: sogesehen. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/41942132@N00
- 43. some times those feelings can really stay with you cc: F. Montino - https://www.flickr.com/photos/66475767@N00
- 44. that's not a head space that anyone wants to be in cc: hermitsmoores - https://www.flickr.com/photos/35137530@N00
- 45. especially not you! cc: Juliana Coutinho - https://www.flickr.com/photos/10217810@N05
- 46. one way you can guard against excessive thinking and worry is to practice mindfulness
- 47. mindfulness is about living every single moment
- 48. as if it were a moment that you had a responsibility to be in...
- 49. mindfulness can help you to be more aware of yourself
- 50. and help you in challenging negative thoughts
- 51. so that your brain is not fried from stress
- 52. it is one thing to know about the benefits of mindfulness
- 53. it can be quite another thing to actually practice it in your day to day
- 54. this is because sometimes you can get really stuck in negative thinking patterns
- 55. your mind can become fixated on what is behind you
- 56. or obsess over what is to come
- 57. excessive thinking over what you cannot control can quickly get out of hand
- 59. your experience of reality shifts based on your perception cc: drubuntu - https://www.flickr.com/photos/51980416@N03
- 60. thinking can shrink your perception
- 61. if you ruminate for long enough you may even start to anticipate negative outcomes
- 62. and it can feel like everything is out to get you
- 63. but you can challenge your thoughts
- 64. and escape negative thinking patterns you find yourself stuck in
- 65. It is necessary if you want to move forward cc: ..Alba.. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/95948282@N00
- 66. and if you are suffering from mental illness cc: Key Foster - https://www.flickr.com/photos/61411590@N03
- 67. it can be particularly difficult for you to challenge your thoughts
- 68. but no one else can do what you do
- 69. So please be kind to yourself
- 70. You must be your own champion
- 71. and do good things for yourself cc: KzAkabueze - ONEin12 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/64524820@N00
- 72. whatever that may mean for you
- 73. You see cc: Nathan O'Nions - https://www.flickr.com/photos/50523792@N03
- 74. You are an intricate pattern cc: eriwst - https://www.flickr.com/photos/37977505@N00
- 75. like a dance of colors on the surface of a glass pane
- 76. in every moment you are a completely different pattern than in the moment previous cc: Thomas Hawk - https://www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01
- 77. literally your bodily organs, fluids and processes are in a continual state of flux
- 78. and boy ; that mind of yours
- 79. is it ever moving
- 80. The only constant is change cc: Tim Geers - https://www.flickr.com/photos/47912915@N02
- 81. You have a great journey ahead
- 82. and really you've only just started to get to the bottom of this thing called life
- 84. The time is now to celebrate the unique pattern that makes you...well YOU
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