Are negative thoughts ruining your life? Consider ways to develop a positive perspective and take charge of your life. Here are 13 ways negative thinking may be ruining your life. Reflect on them and let us know about the changes you are making in the comment section below!
1. It Makes You Idle
Doing anything negative can make you feel sluggish. Negativity can affect your actions in so many ways. With a pessimistic thinking approach, how and where are you supposed to get the motivation to get your day going?
Research also indicates that activity keeps you from thinking negative thoughts. Find something you enjoy doing, or simply construct a checklist of activities to do every day to keep negative thoughts at bay.
2. It Makes You Bitter
We all know how negative thinking can make you feel quite bitter. Often we do not even know what we may be feeling bitter about. That is how quickly negativity can spread. Eventually you may find yourself being angry about everything.
If you find yourself becoming bitter or angry, take time to figure out what it is that is causing you to feel that way. Obviously stemming from something negative in your life, figure out what it is and contradict it with something that makes you feel happy. There is no joy in bitterness. No confidence in anger.
3. It Discourages You
Thinking negative can discourage you from living a healthy life affecting you both mentally and physically. This can cause chronic stress and anxiety, depression, as well as affect the way you see and feel about yourself and others.
Constant negative thoughts can also affect your heart and some research indicates a link between negative thoughts and physical health ailments.
In order to lead a more healthy life, choose to be active and dispel negativity. Change the way you think and crush self-doubt. There are many ways to lead a healthy and less negative existence. Finding something that works for you may take time but it is definitely worth it. Consider your health and change your perspective.
4. It Clouds Your Judgment
Negative thoughts cloud judgment. Negativity has a direct link to self-doubt. Not only that, negative thoughts leave you feeling unsure about everything and everyone. The unsureness created by depressing thoughts affects your ability to reason, be logical and see things at a different angle. Seek to have a clearer mind.
5. It Pushes People Away
Feel like you are pushing those around you away? Perhaps negative thoughts about yourself and about life in general are to blame for this behavior. It is positivity that has steadily proven to bring people into your life and stay. Positivity is the best role model.
Negativity only isolates people and makes them feel uncertain. Ever heard of the saying “don’t take things so personally”? Well consider that your negative thoughts may very well be taken personally by peers and others. Consider the way you may be affecting people and decide to make changes.
6. You Can’t Do Your Best
Negativity keeps you from doing the best you can do. Like being idle, not doing your best can keep you feeling trapped, inside, away from everyone and everything. You may begin to do things only because you feel you have too.
Such activities like going to work, eating healthy, being social and practicing your hobby during leisure time become more of a chore that you complete without really putting your mind to it.
7. You Become Overly Suspicious
Feeling suspicious of everything lately? Negative thoughts can create a level of suspicion within your mind. Because everything is so negative already with you, often you might find yourself reducing others as negative and spreading your energy to those closest to you.
You may begin blaming everyone else but yourself for the way you are feeling and not only do you push people away, you continue to find reasons why to do so. Apprehension leaves you nothing but loneliness in the end. Avoid negativity and avoid social and mental crises.
8. You Blame Others
As stated before, you might find yourself blaming others as a way to temporarily limit negative thoughts. Yet in the end once again, you find yourself alone and perhaps ridden with guilt.
Negativity persuades you to believe that you alone are not only insufficient but everyone around you has to be so as well. It really confuses us and may lead us down a destructive path.
Do not let negativity ruin your life. Look inward and try to understand what you can do differently. Everyone else has their own demons to deal with and you cannot begin to blame others for your own mishaps.
9. Everything Becomes A Problem
When allowing yourself to think negatively, everything you do, everything you say, everything you see or feel becomes a problem. Your insecurity and lack of trust leave you feeling that all around is problematic. Small things suddenly become big, big things suddenly become greater and more burdensome.
How to change this depends highly on changing the way you think. Although it may not be that easy, start small and bridge your way out from there. Recognize what really constitutes a problem area in your life and take those steps to fix it. Everything else is dust in the wind.
10. You Can’t See Yourself Happy
Happiness becomes a passing phase in your life, something you experienced when you were a child – carefree and spirited. When thinking negatively, you believe that you, in the present, cannot and will never be happy. Again, you do not find any need in doing the best that you can and find so security in social connections with those closest to you. Negativity leaves a sour taste in your mouth, an extreme tiredness for things you once found fulfilling.
11. You Can’t Be Happy For Others
Negative energy affects those around you and the way you interact with them as well. You may find yourself experiencing a tinge of jealousy or ill regard for friends and peers. Pessimism is like a weed that spreads across fields – your wellbeing, your body, mind and soul.
Everything appears dark, unwanted and not logical. Since happiness for yourself is not there, why should you find yourself happy for others? Consider how detrimental this is to all your relationships.
12. You’re Anxious & Irritated
And of course you may find yourself constantly irritated and anxious. Negativity affects all emotions – keeping you from experiencing positive ones and pushing your mind to highly emphasize the problematic ones such as anger.
Anger leads to anxiety, fear, rejection, stress and so much more. Keep your attitude in check and avoid anxiety by seeing the positive in most situations.
13. There’s No Room For Hope
And lastly, there is no room for hope in a negative mindset. What is there to hope for when everything seems so hopeless? Instead of seizing the moment, you may find yourself complaining about things that are actually quite small and that keep you from pursuing your dreams. Find hope again and beat negative thoughts before they beat you.
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