How to Control Your Thoughts

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You can carry thoughts around that push you toward depression, retribution, and psychosis. Learn to train your thoughts and plan your emotions so that no one, especially you, gets hurt.

Step 1: Accept responsibility
Accept and believe that your thoughts are up to you, that you are already in control. You must take responsibility for what occurs to you and understand the patterns.

Step 2: Talk to yourself
Talk to yourself aloud, as if you were another person. Counsel yourself, tracing thought origins like a private investigator – concentrate on negative thoughts and explore what the fear is.

Step 3: Write and face it
Write down negative thoughts and visualize what you think will happen if nothing is done. Follow through with actions that defeat your obsessions about helplessness.

Step 4: Rate your thoughts
Rate the thoughts that occur to you on the basis of importance or regularity and set out to reduce occurrences of the self-defeating ones.

Step 5: Imagine what you want
Imagine what you want in your life. Write these things down to practice the habits that make change real, and free your life of angst.

Tip
Watch out that you don’t fool yourself: studies have found that sometimes reflection meant to figure out conflicts is masquerading rage.

Step 6: Cherish what you have
Cherish what you have, meditating on the beauty in your life. Plan to do this every day, or every hour if necessary.

Step 7: Practice from now on
Practice positive thinking every day in a disciplined, peaceful way to make the control of your thoughts - and the actions that follow - habitual.

Did You Know?
A renowned experiment by Dr. Masaru Emoto demonstrated that intentionally positive or loving words and wishes transformed water crystals into stunningly intricate designs.

[LearnEnglishESL]

Changing thoughts is not easy.... Thanks. "I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all the thoughts of your heart on love and unity. When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love." – Abdul-Baha, Paris Talks

[msjulicious]

Here's one thing that has worked for me: Everyday write down the best thing that has happened to you. Even if it's something as mundane as sleeping in because it's your day off. Soon you'll start actively looking for positive things to write about.

[MusicalMarzy]

awesome background music, where can i found it??Perfect for healing!

[tavern]

i hate the fact that i actually had to think about doing this because of the point of where i am in my life...THANKS HOWCAST!!

[RoseMellVio]

Human intelligence is very subtle to a comprehensible conclusion. How do you avoid the voices and negative memories that acts up suddenly.

[WeatherManToBe]

love how when the mom wants to cuddle, you can see the baby yelling help!

[silverclover]

I cannot stop thinking- that's why i am here!

[Catwalkification]

I believe in quieting the mind also, and starting over.

[CielPhantomhive]

GOD that pic of her when they said reflections can cause rage freaked me out -.-

[StarKiss]

The song scared the shit out of me !!!

[JordanMari]

Was that a bug crawling dwn the window during step 3??

[Reaver]

When he talks about water crystals becoming beautiful designs I think of the crystals that destroyed the nerves in my frostbitten hands.

[LemonScissors]

ahah i loved how she threw that thought away lol I do like that for real or wave like if i wanted to keep a bunch of flies away

[SuperHunter]

where can i get this "self-control" stuff

[firedmotion]

you know sometimes I wonder if writing down all these things and doing something like every day really works, or are we just training our mind to think differently? What happens when you stop writing this stuff down. It will work for a while, but I think it won't totally work in the long run. I think people need to talk with someone or figure out why they feel like this. We need to learn to face our problems, that is how you get past something that is making you feel not the greatest.

[UtubeCreature]

1:44 "intentionally positive thoughts transformed water crystals into intricate designs"

Yeah sure, the day when i can levitate myself using my mind

[GGameBoy]

1:45 Where do you get these stats from Howcast?? A coin landing on heads 51% of the time? The nature of water controlled by your thoughts?

[thebestvillager]

I pictured tacos dancing across the screen to make it seem like a less depressing video.

[Kgirl]

i luv this vid it helped alot im now tinking oof myself in a good way and im acualy smiling about my self O_O u guys r miracall workers :)

[jin_]

i dont know where to buy self control or responcibility