Are you perpetually bombarded by thoughts of negativity? Troubled by feelings of insecurity? Do you consider everything in a negative way? The reason for this dwells deep inside your heart.

Are you perpetually bombarded by thoughts of negativity? Troubled by feelings of insecurity? Do you consider everything in a negative way? The reason for this dwells deep in you. You’re what you mentally and spiritually eat.

If a individual drinks day in and day out, odds are his body will be affected in some way. He might experience liver problems, develop cancer or experience some other type of ill health directly related to the quantity of alcohol he has downed.

In the same way, someone who constantly feeds themselves negative thoughts will just become a negative individual.

This is the time to go on a diet. A diet of positive attitude food. You’ve to virtually cease feeding your mind destructive thoughts. Ask yourself is this thought negative or positive or negative?

What do harmful thoughts look like? All right, they begin with can’t instead of can, no as opposed to  yes, will and not won’t. The Good Book (Bible) which is the most outstanding self help book ever published, talks all but taking every thought captive.

The problem in our society has become that what our thinkings have taken us captive. We have started to allow our thoughts to control us.

A great way to recognise what we’re negative about is to question those folks who are closest to us. You can ask your spouse or some other individual in your life who really knows you, how they’d rate your attitude on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being extremely positive and 1 extremely negative.

Ask this person to be totally honest with you. You’ll benefit from their honesty even if it  hurts. Ask  them what it is that you specifically say that they comprehend as negative.

Write down what they say and consider the actual words. Now is the time to be truthful with yourself.

Those words are a manifestation of what is in you. They are who you are. The swell thing is that you are able to change. It’s as simple as deciding to do so. You must choose to replace the sentiments of negativity with sentiments of positivity. Determine what words you’ll change the negative words on your paper to. Once you’ve done this, attempt to introduce these new positive thoughts in your mind.

You will start to detect a positive shift happening in your life. Your family, friends and colleagues will all notice it also. They might not know what is different about you. But they’ll know that you are not the same person that you were.

The items which are causing negativity in your life could very easily be the news, films, constantly playing back tragedy in your mind and the list could go on. These things should be ruled out if you want your new mental health regime to be a winner.

The news is really damaging and it doesn’t serve someone who’s trying to rid their mind of such thoughts. When you’re feeding yourself thoughts of death from a war or gunshot or car accident visually the consequence will be negative.

I do think there’s a time to grieve over the death of a loved one. Still, if a person constantly plays back this negative event in their heads it could lead to depression. The person who’s deceased is not coming back and we must end that chapter in our lives and move on to the following chapter. This is a difficult task which can only be done by arriving at a decision to continue with our own life, never mind how hard this may be.

You can do it. You can and will have a positive mental attitude, if you just take the steps explained above. You don’t have to live what you were in the past. You’ll be able to be different in the future. The choice is yours. I know you’ll make a positive one.