A QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION TO SHARE
Q: How to get rid of negative thoughts, I am sometimes overwhelmed with thoughts that do not support me, and I do not know how to stop them?
A:The very idea that you are able to notice your thoughts is wonderful. That is the first step to awareness. The more you give time to notice your thoughts, the more the thoughts will vanish.
Please do positive affirmations many times during the day, this will help to erase the thought and rewrite good thoughts over it.
Place your attention on what ever you are doing at a time.
Let me share some examples that have worked wonders for me:
If you are washing dishes, just be with the dishes, notice the feel of the water, the soap, feel the shape of the dish be with it with your complete attention, this will stop all thoughts and make you come into the now moment where thoughts cannot survive.
If you are brushing teeth, as you pass the brush close your eyes and feel each teeth.
As you take a shower be with the feel of the water on your body, the feel of the soap on your hands, just be with the feeling, there will be absolutely no thoughts because you are in the now moment.
As you cook food be there with the vegetables as you cut them, feel the feelings that are received by your hand, the smells and the tastes, give thanks for every rice grain, every vegetable etc. that has given its life for your nutrition.
While eating tell yourself "I enjoy every food I eat and I love every cell of my body" then eat slowly paying attention to every mouth full of food by following it as it is ground in the teeth, and swallowed to your stomach.
While walking just take a moment to notice the feel of the ground as your feet touches the ground, notice the movement of your legs one after the other, this will keep you in the now moment.
Make a small note to yourself on your work table, write the words "Breathe" as a reminder. And as you are busy working sometimes when you notice the note, just stop everything for a moment and notice at least one cycle of inward and outward breath then continue with your work. These small moments of awareness are very profound and they will help you to drop all unwanted thoughts.
Take time to pay attention to every simple thing as much as possible, just be there with everything you do, and automatically thoughts will go away, and they will be replaced with alertness which will keep you aware of everything around you effortlessly, you will be amazed!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
Q: How to get rid of negative thoughts, I am sometimes overwhelmed with thoughts that do not support me, and I do not know how to stop them?
A:The very idea that you are able to notice your thoughts is wonderful. That is the first step to awareness. The more you give time to notice your thoughts, the more the thoughts will vanish.
Please do positive affirmations many times during the day, this will help to erase the thought and rewrite good thoughts over it.
Place your attention on what ever you are doing at a time.
Let me share some examples that have worked wonders for me:
If you are washing dishes, just be with the dishes, notice the feel of the water, the soap, feel the shape of the dish be with it with your complete attention, this will stop all thoughts and make you come into the now moment where thoughts cannot survive.
If you are brushing teeth, as you pass the brush close your eyes and feel each teeth.
As you take a shower be with the feel of the water on your body, the feel of the soap on your hands, just be with the feeling, there will be absolutely no thoughts because you are in the now moment.
As you cook food be there with the vegetables as you cut them, feel the feelings that are received by your hand, the smells and the tastes, give thanks for every rice grain, every vegetable etc. that has given its life for your nutrition.
While eating tell yourself "I enjoy every food I eat and I love every cell of my body" then eat slowly paying attention to every mouth full of food by following it as it is ground in the teeth, and swallowed to your stomach.
While walking just take a moment to notice the feel of the ground as your feet touches the ground, notice the movement of your legs one after the other, this will keep you in the now moment.
Make a small note to yourself on your work table, write the words "Breathe" as a reminder. And as you are busy working sometimes when you notice the note, just stop everything for a moment and notice at least one cycle of inward and outward breath then continue with your work. These small moments of awareness are very profound and they will help you to drop all unwanted thoughts.
Take time to pay attention to every simple thing as much as possible, just be there with everything you do, and automatically thoughts will go away, and they will be replaced with alertness which will keep you aware of everything around you effortlessly, you will be amazed!
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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