Positive thinking, when handled well, makes us more resistant to certain mood disorders. Depression has many causes. However, thoughts of low self-esteem, not being worthy or not good enough, play an important role in depressive processes. With positive statements, you can change your thought process and use it to your advantage, not against it.
A statement, as a rule, is a sure statement of perceived truth. The fact is that the repetition of this kind of truth, in the form of positive claims, has helped thousands of people make significant changes in their lives. the effects are not the same for everyone, so why can one person benefit from an internal dialogue full of positive affirmations, while another does not get results by implementing the same strategy?
- A statement can work because it has the ability to motivate.
- Deceive and even program our minds to work on a particular idea.
- Whether or not there is reality behind the idea.
- The important thing is that the person checks the nature of reality: the mind.
- Doesn’t know the difference between the real and the fantastic.
- Here’s what happens when you watch a movie and start laughing or crying: the mind identifies with the characters on the screen and reacts.
“An affirmation is all you say or think. A lot of what we usually say and think about is very negative and doesn’t create good experiences for us. Do we need to re-edit our thinking and talk about positive models if we want to change?Our lives?-Louise Hay-
If a negative belief is deeply rooted in our unconsciousness, it has the ability to nullify a positive affirmation, much, indeed, even if we are not aware of it. That’s why, for many people, the claims don’t seem to work, because their negative thought patterns are so strong that they even find something positive that happens to them: they override it in emotional baggage.
The good news is that we can make positive claims work and prime negative thoughts, for this the psychotherapist Ronald Alexander proposes the following steps:
Affirmations can be a powerful tool to help you change your mood and support you for the changes you want to make. Also, keep in mind that they work best if we first identify the negative beliefs we have.
Mindfulness meditation is a very effective method to help you unravel your unconscious thinking patterns, it also allows you to categorize them, identify what is healthy and what does not benefit you, with the practice of mindfulness we do not directly seek change. What we want to do is find the power and ability to first accept who we are, and then change and move towards what is possible.