![]() Say to yourself – just because one event happened, doesn’t necessarily mean I am permanently this way of being. Does this always happen, every single time? Really? If not then recognise you’re overgeneralizing. This kind of thinking makes you feel as if you’ve no control over your actions – and as such it’s disempowering.Īsk yourself. “You never have any respect for my feelings” or “ Every time I ask you to do something you always say you’re too busy!” or indeed “I always mess up!” ‘Always’ thinking – overgeneralizationĪlways thinking or overgeneralizing is typically accompanied by words such as always, never, every time, or everyone. Recognise, one slip up doesn’t mean you’ve given up it means just that – you’ve had one slip up.Ģ. ![]() It’s all or nothing with you and if you’ve set yourself an aim of doing something, in your eyes you’ve failed. You’ve given up smoking and then had a quick puff? Immediately you tell yourself “I can’t do this no-smoking malarkey, I just can’t quit!” You miss a day on your diet – you think you have no self-control and give up. This is when you think some is all good or all bad, all black or all white. So go on, see if you’re thinking these thoughts and learn how to stop them before they take a hold (you know you want to!) The 11 Negative Thoughts So here’s all 11, how you can spot them and then swat the little beggars! NLP has a similar concept so we decided to roll them all into one bundle and somehow we’ve ended up with 11! Amen puts forward 9 types of negative thought (that he calls ANTs – automatic negative thoughts).ĭavid Burns, in Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, outlines 10 common mistakes in thinking, or thinking errors he calls cognitive distortions. In his book, Change your Brain, Change your Body Dr Daniel G. So with negative thoughts the danger is that you constantly reaffirm or reinforce them until they become the way you think and then get in the way of you doing what you want to do. You probable think of affirmations as something positive (like those we’ve talked about before) but affirmation just means affirming something, or making it firm, and this can be in a negative way just as much as in a positive way. And sometimes just catching out that thought is enough to dissipate it or stop its influence on your behaviour. So today we want to look at the different varieties, or maybe we should say ‘species’ of NATs out there.īecause if you’re aware of them you’re more likely to recognise them and do something about them when you notice yourself thinking them. ![]() “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” – Eckhart Tolle We’re talking Negative Affirming Thoughts (NATs for short).Īnd if you’re not recognising them, then they might just be preventing you living your fullest life now and getting in the way of you achieving your goals or making the changes you want in your life. The wrong types of thought, the negative thoughts that often come to mind throughout our day, can make you feel bad and stop you achieving our best.Īnd we don’t mean those pesky little insects that buzz around you and over your head when you’re enjoying a warm summer’s evening walk or drink outside the pub. “If you realised just how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” – Peace Pilgrim ![]() Powered by the Simple Podcast Press Player
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