Comments on: How to Overcome Negative Thoughts

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:52:31 +0000

I am almost fifty years old, married with two children. I am unfortunately a person with lots of negative thoughts. It makes my life and my family’s life a misery. I cannot help being negative and a little problem becomes hell. I am often introvert, lacking of confidence and I used to be very shy (at fifty shyness is not so strong). Resulting from this, many people have been nasty to me in every ways which have made my hope of getting better even harder. I have tried everyting; praying (because I am a believer in God), meditating, doing reiki, etc. God or praying has never helped me.
Thinking negatively is an illness and very difficult to get rif of.

By: Keir

Keir — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:39:22 +0000

Great tips. Prayer and meditation help me quite a bit. It is unwise, and negative to demean and label something childish if it does not work for you.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:34:16 +0000

Prayer helps me tremendously… I know that God is listening and working on my behalf for my good, and that things will eventually change. It is up to me to be patient and let Him work things out. And He will and always does.

By: Karim

Karim — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:08:16 +0000

This is a great post and some valuable information. Negative thoughts are like weeds, if you don’t get rid of them early they’ll over run the garden of your mind. The sooner you remove them the better. Start by tracking your thoughts, get rid of those that don’t work for you or don’t help you achieve your goals. Negative thoughts are the kind that get you down, make you feel like you’re no good or that life is hard.
Replace these with positive thoughts and focus on how you can make your life better. The sooner you get rid of those negative thoughts the better.

By: babita

babita — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:52:09 +0000

a wonderful version to overcome but it is quit impossible to smile while someone is depressed.

By: Shruti

Shruti — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:19:51 +0000

At a time in life , when the pressures of corporate world were getting to me, my fiance introduced me to this post.
” Have realistic expectations and learn to accept failure” . Never has truth been said so plainly and effectively. I guess most of my problems and restlessness is routed to the simple fact that I push myself harder than I ought to. I can never relax and am too harsh on myself. I cannot even concentrate on a simple prayer with a million thoughts going on in my head, I guess the only person who can save me from snapping / burning out is myself. I need to stop.

By: Mike Greer

Mike Greer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:26:27 +0000

It’s been a few months since my original comment and I’ve given this much more thought. The result is a blog post/podcast based on Martin Selignman’s Learned Optimism. It’s got a review of key concepts and some Challenges you can use with project teams (workers) or your family. Available as a 9 minute audio or in text form. It’s at the Inspired Project Teams blog under Learn to Be Optimistic… Learn to Succeed.
(Thanks to this blog for the great inspiration and for the implied challenge to apply this to my specialty, project management!)

By: jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:25:50 +0000

great advise keep up the good work

Jonathan

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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:59:30 +0000

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By: Make Negative Thoughts Impotent

Make Negative Thoughts Impotent — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:52:15 +0000

I think most people don’t realize how much of detrimental impact negative thoughts have on their lives. If they jus took the time out to really identify and then challenge their negative thoughts, their self esteem would be greatly boosted.

Charles L.