Negative Thoughts - The Origin Of Negative Thinking & How To Eliminate It Forever
Summary
TLDRLeo from Actualised.org discusses the impact of negative thoughts and their origins in our subconscious fears, often rooted in childhood or early adulthood. He emphasizes the importance of awareness and offers practical steps to identify and track these thoughts. Techniques such as affirmations, meditation, and focusing on creative or altruistic activities are suggested to combat negativity. The video encourages viewers to visit Actualised.org for more advanced personal development strategies.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Negative thoughts are often automatic and unconscious, arising from our deepest fears and projecting worst-case scenarios.
- 🔍 Awareness is the first step to dealing with negative thoughts; Leo suggests spending three days being conscious of these thoughts and their triggers.
- 📝 Keeping a list of negative thoughts for a few days can help identify patterns and underlying fears.
- 🧘♂️ Meditation is a powerful tool for quieting the mind and reducing negative thought patterns.
- 🙏 Affirmations, when done effectively, can help counteract negative thoughts by reinforcing positive beliefs.
- 🌟 The reptilian brain, responsible for survival instincts, can be calmed to reduce the impact of negative thoughts on our conscious mind.
- 💪 Developing new habits and reshaping thought patterns takes time and consistent effort.
- 🎯 Focusing on creative activities or causes outside of oneself can shift attention away from negative self-focus.
- 🤔 The prefrontal cortex, associated with higher consciousness and ideals, can be strengthened to balance the reptilian brain's influence.
- 💡 Negative thoughts are a natural part of the human condition and complete elimination is not expected, but management is key.
- 🌱 Leo encourages further exploration of advanced techniques for mastering emotions and negative thoughts on his website, Actualized.org.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video script provided by Leo from Actualised.org?
-The main topic of the video script is about understanding and dealing with negative thoughts, their origins, and techniques to cope with and eliminate them.
Why are negative thoughts sometimes referred to as automatic negative thoughts?
-Negative thoughts are called automatic because they often occur unconsciously and spontaneously throughout the day without us realizing how many we are having.
What is the role of our mind in creating negative thoughts?
-Our mind is adept at taking our greatest fears and projecting them, catastrophizing them to create the worst possible scenarios, which then flash before our eyes as negative thoughts.
What are some common fears that might lead to negative thoughts?
-Common fears that lead to negative thoughts include the fear of failure, fear of being poor and homeless, fear of loneliness and rejection, and fear of humiliation or embarrassment.
What is the first step suggested by Leo to start eliminating negative thoughts?
-The first step to eliminating negative thoughts is to become very conscious and aware of when you are having them and what topics they revolve around.
Why is it recommended to spend a few days being aware of one's thoughts?
-Spending a few days being aware of one's thoughts helps in identifying patterns and topics of negative thoughts, which is essential for understanding and addressing them effectively.
What is the significance of making a list of negative thoughts over a few days?
-Making a list of negative thoughts helps in tracking and categorizing them, which can reveal underlying fears and patterns that contribute to these thoughts.
How does the reptilian brain influence our negative thoughts?
-The reptilian brain, being more powerful than the prefrontal cortex, is responsible for our fight-or-flight response and survival instincts, which can lead to negative thoughts when perceiving threats or dangers.
What are some techniques suggested by Leo to reshape negative thought patterns?
-Techniques suggested include practicing affirmations, meditation, and engaging in creative activities or causes that focus on contributing to others or the world.
Why is focusing on external contributions or causes beneficial in combating negative thoughts?
-Focusing on external contributions or causes helps shift attention away from oneself and one's negative thoughts, creating a positive spiral of giving and focusing on what one can do to make a difference.
What additional resources does Leo recommend for mastering emotions and personal development?
-Leo recommends visiting Actualised.org for more advanced personal development videos, meditation techniques, journaling exercises, and subscribing to a free newsletter for exclusive updates.
Outlines
🤔 Understanding Negative Thoughts
Leo from Actualised.org introduces the concept of negative thoughts, explaining that they are often automatic and unconscious. He emphasizes the mind's tendency to project worst-case scenarios based on our deepest fears, which can be traced back to childhood or early adulthood. The paragraph discusses common fears such as failure, poverty, loneliness, rejection, and humiliation. Leo suggests the first step in combating negative thoughts is to become aware of them, proposing a three-day exercise of conscious thought tracking to identify patterns and topics related to these thoughts.
🧠 The Role of the Reptilian Brain in Negative Thinking
This paragraph delves into the biological aspect of negative thoughts, attributing them to the reptilian part of the brain, which is responsible for survival instincts and the fight-or-flight response. It explains that this part of the brain is more powerful than the prefrontal cortex, where conscious thoughts and higher ideals reside. The reptilian brain's sensitivity to danger and its influence over our thought patterns make it challenging to eliminate negative thinking. Leo suggests that reshaping negative thought habits involves quieting the reptilian brain through practices like affirmations and meditation, which are discussed in more detail in other videos.
🌟 Strategies for Eliminating Negative Thoughts
Leo concludes the video script by offering strategies to manage and reduce negative thoughts. He advises focusing on activities that contribute positively to the world or others, rather than inward reflection that can lead to despair. Leo mentions the importance of creating habits that recondition the mind, such as daily affirmations and meditation, to quiet the mind's negative chatter. He also encourages finding a cause or project outside oneself to invest in, which can help shift focus away from personal negative thoughts. The paragraph ends with an invitation for viewers to engage with the content, share their thoughts, and visit Actualised.org for more advanced personal development resources.
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Keywords
💡Negative Thoughts
💡Automatic Negative Thoughts
💡Catastrophizing
💡Fear
💡Awareness
💡Reptilian Brain
💡Prefrontal Cortex
💡Affirmations
💡Meditation
💡Creativity
💡Contribution
Highlights
Negative thoughts are often automatic and unconscious, arising from our greatest fears and projecting worst-case scenarios.
The mind is adept at catastrophizing fears, creating vivid images of negative outcomes.
Common fears include failure, poverty, loneliness, rejection, and humiliation, often rooted in early life experiences.
Becoming aware of negative thoughts is the first step towards eliminating them.
Spend three days consciously observing and noting your negative thoughts to understand their patterns.
Negative thoughts are linked to feelings of anxiety, stress, worry, and being overwhelmed.
The subconscious mind fills in negative outcomes based on our deepest fears.
The human brain has a 'lower self' and 'higher self', with the lower self focused on survival and the higher self on ideals and goals.
The reptilian brain's fight-or-flight response can override higher consciousness and values.
Quieting the reptilian brain is key to reducing negative thoughts and focusing on higher ideals.
Affirmations, when done effectively, can help eliminate negative thoughts.
Meditation is a powerful tool for quieting the mind and reducing negative thought patterns.
Engaging in creative activities or focusing on causes outside oneself can shift attention away from negative thoughts.
The speaker suggests that dwelling on oneself can lead to a negative spiral, while focusing outward can reverse this trend.
For more advanced techniques on mastering emotions and personal development, the speaker refers viewers to their site.
The speaker encourages viewers to subscribe to a free newsletter for exclusive updates on personal development topics.
Transcripts
hey this is Leo for actualised org and
let's talk about negative thoughts all
right in this quick self-help segment I
am going to cover negative thoughts what
they are set your expectations for how
they work and give you some techniques
that you can use to cope with them deal
with them eliminate them all right so
negative thoughts or as many of us call
it automatic negative thoughts because
that's what it is we don't realize is
how many of these thoughts you're
actually having and how unconsciously
and spontaneous interests automatically
you're having them throughout that your
day so whether it's a negative thought
about your girlfriend or boyfriend
negative thought about what somebody did
to you while you were driving to work or
negative thought about having to go to
the gym or negative thought about what's
going to be happening to you
next month when you can't pay the bills
you know your mind is really really good
at taking your greatest fears and
projecting them and catastrophizing them
and just creating the worst possible
case scenarios and then putting them
right before your eyes and just like BAM
flashing them right for before you so
whatever your greatest fears are in life
chances are that you're having a lot of
negative thoughts around that fear and I
do usually tend to find that it's one or
two main fears and this is probably
something like an issue that crept up
and kind of stuck with you from
childhood or early adulthood and these
things tend to be centered around for
example the fear of failure maybe you
have a fear of whining a poor and
homeless maybe you have a fear of not
winding up in a good relationship and
being lonely and dying miserable and
unloved maybe you have a fear of really
getting rejected by somebody if you put
yourself out there whether in a
relationship or maybe in a business
context maybe you have a fear of like
failure in going and trying some sort of
goal and then not succeeding at it and
then having everybody point point
fingers at you and say well we told you
so we
you couldn't do that and so we have a
failure of of that kind of embarrassment
or humiliation so there's many different
types of core fundamental fears but
whatever it is it's going to be like a
filter that you look and filter your
whole day through and this will have
tend to happen again and again and again
so one first step to starting to
eliminate negative thoughts is to become
very conscious become very aware of when
you are having negative thoughts and
what is the topic that is revolving
around I guarantee you that you will be
shocked if you have not done this
exercise spend the next few days spend
the next three days just be very aware
about what it is that you're thinking
and what you might want to do
practically is for five minutes every
day for five minutes
randomly three times within your day
just stop for five minutes and ask
yourself what am I feeling right now and
what am i thinking and what you'll
notice is that if you're feeling
negatively if you're feeling anxious or
stressed or worried or overwhelmed
you're going to notice that there's an
Associated thought with that and that
thought is going to be some sort of
negative automatic thought that you
might not even realize that you're
having it might be something like well
I'm feeling overwhelmed right now and
the reason I'm feeling that way is
because I'm thinking that oh I've got a
hundred things that I need to do before
the end of the week or if I don't do
that then something bad will happen
right and that's usually where your
brain fills in your subconscious mind
will fill in that blank with your worst
imaginable fear you might think that
well if I don't get all this stuff done
this week
then I might get fired and I might not
be able to pay my mortgage and then
though the bank will repossess my house
and then I'll wind up on the street and
I'll never be able to recover from that
and I'll be homeless and poor for the
rest of my life so maybe that's what
your brain is projecting in into your
into your mind or maybe it's something
like well if I don't get all this stuff
done then my spouse or my boyfriend or
my girlfriend will think less of me and
they won't love me anymore and maybe
they'll leave me
and then I'll not ever be able to
replace them and get into a good
relationship so I'll wind up alone and
miserable and nobody will ever want me
because I'm unlovable and I'm not
successful in their eyes so maybe it's
something like that right become aware
of that do a little bit of analysis and
spend the next three days really
tracking your negative thoughts and
maybe recording them and in fact I'll
tell you make a list make a list of all
the negative thoughts you're having
throughout the next three days and just
see what are the categories are they
based around money are they based around
relationships and people are they based
around humiliation fear of failure
something else maybe your diet maybe
your how you look maybe your level of
confidence in your life maybe the things
that you think you can can't achieve
start to notice that because awareness
is the first step and honestly you're
not going to be able to eliminate your
negative thinking in a week that's not
going to happen
all of us have negative thoughts it's
totally natural it's the human condition
our mind is geared this way our mind
really has a lower self and higher self
the lower self is literally physically
in your brain you have a reptilian brain
that part of your brain that evolved
when there were no humans on earth that
part of the brain that evolved when we
were still mammals and even before
mammals when we're really at the
reptilian phase this was millions of
years ago because then there was no
higher consciousness thinking there were
no such things as ideals like beauty and
excellence and truth and there were no
goals what there was was just
fight-or-flight response
survival of the fittest and in that kind
of ecosystem your brain or your
reptilian brain the brainstem the lower
part of your brain really evolved to
ensure that your survival is taken care
of so when your survival is threatened
everything else in your life shuts off
nothing else can take priority
you can't honor values like beauty and
honesty and love and truth and
excellence you can't honor these types
of values and you can't honor those
types of goals and
towards them in your life if you're
worried about your physical survival for
example or if you're worried that you're
going to be humiliated and ostracized or
if you're worried that you're not going
to be loved so these fundamental fears
are grounded in your reptilian brain and
your reptilian brain is more powerful
than your prefrontal cortex and your
your more mammalian and your more human
brain so the prefrontal cortex is where
you get your conscious thought from and
there we have these bigger ideals we
have these goals we have these visions
for ourselves we have this amazing life
that we want to live we have the
contribution that we want to make to the
world but to make that to actually honor
that in your life what you need to do is
you need to kind of quiet your reptilian
brain and make sure that your reptilian
brain is kind of a is mellowed out it's
calm and it's not too overstressed and
that means taking a look at the negative
thoughts that you're having and it's not
going to be that easy to recondition
your reptilian brain to stop having
these negative thoughts because you've
got like a lifetime of history of of
having these negative thoughts so you
have these negative thought habits that
you really need to start to reshape and
then of course even then your reptilian
brain is still always going to be very
sensitive to any kind of dangers in your
environment or perceived dangers so the
way to start is through awareness but
then of course you can build in habits
that will help you to reshape your
negative your negative thought patterns
one way to do this is to do affirmations
and I have other videos that talk about
how to do affirmations effectively there
are some important tips about how to do
affirmations but doing just five or ten
minutes of affirmations in the morning
is a really effective way to eliminate
negative thoughts another way to
eliminate negative thoughts is with
meditation meditation is all about
quieting the mind and shutting off
shutting off all that chitter chatter
that's going on especially the negative
chitter chatter and just quieting your
mind and being happy in the moment and I
got other videos to talk about how to
really do with meditation effectively as
well
but setting up a meditation habit can be
a really powerful strategy for
eliminating negative thoughts other ways
to eliminate negative thoughts is to
have something creative that you're
doing in your life have your life be not
focused on yourself but be focused on
other people and not in the sense that
you're a mother Teresa type person but
in the sense that there's something you
want to contribute something that you're
doing that's outside of yourself so
maybe you are really interested in some
sort of cause like you have a charity
that you really like to contribute to
and that's important to you or maybe
your family is your cause or maybe your
work is your cause maybe your church is
your cause or some other organization or
maybe your cause is maybe you're like a
scientist and your causes to discover
something new to add something to
humanity to do something to do something
positive right maybe you're an inventor
and you want to create something that's
going to help people out maybe you're a
business maker you're an entrepreneur
and you want to make some sort of
business that's going to have a positive
impact on the world right so focus on
that rather than just sitting alone in
your room
dwelling on yourself and your own
thoughts because that tends to be just
like a negative spiral of pit and
despair that you go down whereas if you
start focusing your attention outward
and you start giving and you start
focusing on what you can be doing then
all of a sudden you reverse that trend
and you start moving upward alright so
those are my thoughts on negative
thoughts negative thoughts are really a
pernicious thing and you want to start
to get a handle on them and it's really
it is a deep topic and there's a lot of
more advanced techniques that I cannot
share with you in this quick self-help
segment so I'm going to refer you to my
site for those but I'm going to wrap up
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