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- Make peace with negative thoughts
- Don’t let negative thoughts take over you. Anxious and negative thoughts can make you feel helpless and hopeless.
- Identify the thoughts in your mind
- Identify and describe the negative thoughts in your mind. Think about the source of these thoughts and why it makes you feel bad.
- Focus on the present
- Instead of thinking about the negative outcome for a subject and planning in that direction, focus on the present. Now consider what situation you are in. The future may not always be what we planned, excessive anxiety steals from your present.
- Know yourself well
- Get to know yourself well. You must know what makes you feel bad. See how you’ve dealt with negativity before. This makes it easier to get to know yourself better and deal with negative thoughts.
- Be flexible for the future
- Be flexible for the future. No matter how much you plan, some positive or negative events may occur that you do not take into account. Therefore, avoid very clear, sharp plans.
- Don’t blame yourself
- Don’t blame yourself. Like every person, you may have made mistakes in the past. This does not mean that mistakes will happen in the future they were in the past. You are now more knowledgeable and experienced than before, remember.
- Pay attention to words
- Avoid using words like “I wish”, “I wonder”, “What if, or not”, “Never”.
- Respect yourself
- Respect yourself for your decisions and avoid adapting others’ opinions to your own life. If you know yourself well enough about what is right for you, you will know best.
