Letting Go of Negative Thoughts / Spartan MIND 045

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Our mind is a melting pot of different kinds of thoughts. Joy ones, excited ones, worry ones, hopeful ones, and, yes, negative ones. It is important to be aware of your own negative thoughts because denying they exist doesn’t make them go away - and in some circumstances doing just that only makes them grow stronger. And, at the same time, you want to be strategic about how you address them because if you give them too much attention they can grow and get stronger. Countering your negative thoughts with positive ones can be a useful strategy - whether you do this in your head or write it down in a journal. Also, work on trying to remove the judgment that you may be placing on top of the negative thought. We all have negative thoughts so to shame yourself or be self-deprecating because you have negative thoughts only makes things worse.

LESSONS:
Negative thoughts can arise in anyone at any given time. Being aware of your own negative thoughts can serve you when trying to implement strategies that decrease the thoughts.
Try to identify your most prominent negative thoughts and counter them with positive thoughts, reality testing, or hopeful mantras.
Remove judgment that you place on top of the negative thought and have compassion for yourself.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here, your chief mind doc at Spartan where I'm here every Wednesday
0:11.8	working to build up that mental toughness and
0:14.3	mental resiliency so that you can overcome the obstacles in your life and be the best
0:18.9	human that I know you want to be. Today we're talking about letting go of negative thoughts. So what are
0:26.2	negative thoughts? I mean come on they're just thoughts that are negative and we all have
0:31.1	them right so they can be thoughts that center around our
0:35.6	insecurities they can be thoughts about our future and worries about our
0:39.8	future they can be thoughts about other people We can have negative thoughts about lots of different things.
0:45.0	Usually, however, our negative thoughts are mostly self-directed, right?
0:51.0	So negative thoughts that we have about ourselves things like I'm not good enough I'm not
0:56.8	athletic I am stupid I am too emotional I am too
1:02.8	needy I mean I could go on and on and on about the kinds of different
1:06.3	negative thoughts that we have
1:07.8	but if you're a human being more than likely you've had a negative
1:11.4	thought in your life at some point in time. The thing about
1:14.6	negative thoughts though is that they can become barriers to us moving forward and achieving
1:19.4	the things that we want when we listen to them. Negative thoughts are a little bit like seeds, right?
1:25.7	We plant them in our brain, but if we attend to them,
1:29.7	right, and if we water them through that attention, they will grow and they will spread.
1:35.4	So we actually want to work on some different skills where we take the negative thoughts
1:41.3	and we shift them or transform them or we move away from them
1:45.7	altogether.
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