Written by Sarah Davies
Registered Psychologist
Posted: Mar 29 2022
The key is to acknowledge and bring your awareness to your negative thoughts, rather than trying to suppress or hide from them.
If you’re having a thought like, ‘this is too hard’ or ‘I can’t do this, I’m not good enough’, just image your negative thought is like a cloud passing you by in the sky.
Simply acknowledge its presence, and then allow the thought to float away like a passing cloud, without grabbing onto it.
No need to get caught up in it, or fight against it.
Take a few deep breaths, and then focus on what you want to be doing or thinking instead.
This is a quick and easy diffusion technique for negative thinking.
Remember, thoughts are just thoughts. You can’t stop having them but you can choose how to respond to them.
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Posted: Mar 29 2022
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