How To Use Your Negative Thinking To Your Advantage

You may be finding advice on how to stop negative thoughts, but what if we told you there's a better solution? In this video, we explore how to use your negative thinking to your advantage and turn those thoughts into powerful tools for growth.

Negative thinking doesn’t always have to be the enemy. By reframing and understanding your negative thoughts, you can transform them into insights that help you overcome challenges and improve your mental health. We’ll guide you through practical strategies on how to stop letting automatic negative thoughts control you and instead use them to your benefit.

If you’re ready to stop fighting against negative thinking and start using it as a resource, this video is for you. Let’s embrace the power of your mind and learn how to make those negative thoughts work for you!

Disclaimer: This advice is not meant to replace professional advice. Remember there are no one-size-fits-all solutions, so just do what works for you. If you struggle with mental health or depression, please seek professional help.

#thoughts #psychology #mentalhealth #mindset

Writer: Chloe Avenasa
Script Editor & Manager: Kelly Soong
Animator: Anilezah
YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong

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I’ve already mastered negative thinking. Now I just need to learn how to use it to my advantage.

[Rafsanul_Haq_]

I remember suffering from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and intrusive thoughts that caused severe anxiety and distress. I feared these thoughts would worsen my depression and worried, "What will people think if they know I have these thoughts inside my mind?" I relied heavily on external validation. One day, I decided to face the thoughts. At first, it was hard, but I reminded myself, "My thoughts can't stop me from being happy. Even if the worst thought comes true, I will do anything to make myself happy." I accepted those thoughts without fearing them and focused on my hobbies. Eventually, they stopped disturbing me, and I realized thoughts are natural—they come and go. My goal should be to accept them, not eliminate them, and prevent them from controlling my life. I also learned that real respect is self-respect. People will always judge me based on their own beliefs, shaped by their family upbringing, culture and personal experiences. It’s important to build confidence from within rather than depending on others. People don’t know my inner qualities, so I should focus on them and accept myself. That’s true self-validation.

[lysaali]

1. understand negative thinking (PPE)

2. master/challenge your thoughts
good and bad

3. be proactive to minimise bad impacts

4. gain self confidence 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️🧘

5. handle negative comments better

[Aan]

Timestamps
1). Understand negative thinking 0:45
2). Master your thoughts 1:30
3). Take calculated risks 2:59
4). Take proactive action 3:36
5). Gain self-confidence 4:13
6). Handle negative comments on 4:58
7). Handle negative people better 5:35.

Hope this helps you out. Hope you have a nice day. Sorry this is so late. 💙💙💙💙💙💙

[darthoptinon]

ON QUEUE, the timing of the topics of these videos being uploaded is IMPECCABLE

[Thrpio]

Humans are wired to think negatively to protect themselves from danger, so I believe everyone should see this.

[zen_]

the timing of this video is crazy. thank you so much.

[homiesenatep]

The optimist builds the trampoline, the pessimist builds the safety net ❤

[leialuminous]

I find reframing absolutely everything into a pause, calm, detach and then proceed to ask 'what is this teaching me?' makes a huge difference. Your lows start to exist less and less the more you face the emotions. You got this 💕

[CardinalTreehouse]

Anyone else with ADHD use negative thoughts to motivate themselves? "If I don't get this done, I will get fired", "I have to show up at this party even though I am exhausted or people will hate me", etc. It works but being in fight or flight mode day after day for years is exhausting.

[Liaaa--]

I love myself but my negative thought spiral really needs to be dealt with. This video was a need ❤❤

[seeyourecho]

We have to be demure..and mindful of our thoughts 😌🫶🏻

[victorialaing]

Negative thoughts may push someone to try to do better, but it’s unhealthy if we try to be perfect and put too much pressure on ourselves to succeed and try to hard. This is what happened with Riley Anderson in Inside Out 2. Anxiety was feeding Riley negative thoughts and preparing her for all the things that could go wrong. This was unhealthy for Riley because she became too hard on herself and was trying to hard which ended up making her feel more stressed as she became obsessed with being a perfect hockey player

[sandiletwala]

I can relate to this every day of my life. And honestly I use to not be perfect but I can improve wherever I lack step by step.

[akstarnes]

"These thoughts can feel like they're dragging us down, but they're actually trying to protect us from harm or failure."
Nice to know my brain is trying to protect me with this method all the time with almost everything.

[Todd-wu]

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, and fling myself into misfortune long before it occurred”

[bethmoore]

This definitely came at the perfect time

[PhilosophyMeetsPsychology]

Wow! I just uploaded a video on the "Virtue of Cynicism" on my channel and then I get this notification! This month is all about harnessing even what feels like a negative trait. Absolutely empowering!

[anuruksuriyaarachchi]

Thank you very much for this video. Once I saw this video made 3 minutes ago. Yesterday night I started consuming 2 new drugs prescribed by my psychiatrist. I used to be someone who consumes extremely disturbing black metal music as a new habit because I used to be a lover of the dark side even though it mentally disturbs me, I never stopped watching them. Today, I started my day around 2:00 PM in the afternoon and felt kinda disgusted about this media and it combined with my previous distressing visuals about the evening. So, instead of watching them, I watched the positive songs that I've downloaded and it gave me a different feeling unlike ever before. So, today I engaged only in positive media and when I saw the title of this video. The mind instantly said that "Psych2go is now preparing you a video that could lead you back to the dark side. Now, watch them so you can bring back your pain." but instead what I did was I watched this thinking "They professional enough to explain about mental health, so let's go and see and then decide what to do", and the video itself proved the right thing to do proving the voices/inner mind giving misinformation. Thanks a lot for all your work!

[rikitikitavatiki]

Never clicked on a video so fast before. If there was ever a skill I needed to work on, it's this.

Also Marcus Aurelius was a genius. I've been putting off reading *Meditations* for months now and maybe I should actually get around to it. It's not even all that long!