Now of course, we are only human. It is completely normal for negative thoughts to creep into our day-to-day life and to cause little bumps in our lives. It’s when these thoughts become a pattern that they become not only harder to shake, but they can also affect our ambition and ability to navigate through our daily tasks as fluidly as we’d like.
Negative thought patterns can also affect our sleep, motivation, productivity, emotional strength and stability. Negative energy has this way of being able to pull us down, and the unconscious mind works in such powerful ways that it can diminish our happiness and make us feel badly about certain things in our life.
Sometimes, our mindset can be affected by stress and overwhelm in trying to juggle everything in our business and life. Other times our moods can swing due to our menstrual cycles, the lunar cycle or even just the weather getting us down. It may seem like there is no good reason to be feeling negative, whilst other times it might be very clear what has caused the shift in mood and thinking.
Whatever the reason, it’s important to be armed with ways of being able to clear the negative thought pattern and bring on a positive mindset again for those times when we are feeling down or overrun by negative thoughts.
Meditation and Visualisation
The most effective way to cleanse your mind of negative energy is finding the source of your unhappiness; more-so, the root of what is directly causing these negative thoughts to surface. You can do this through a simple guided meditation exercise where you ask yourself: “What’s causing me to have these negative thoughts?” Your happiness lies in finding a solution to your answer.
Find a quiet place to sit and reflect. You might like to light a candle and sit in your own sacred space with some essential oils diffusing. Close your eyes and feel into your body as you identify the root of your unhappiness. Allow your thoughts and feelings to reflect how this thought is affecting you. How does it make you feel?
At this point, decide what you would like to replace your negative thought with. Perhaps a word or phrase, an action, or a happy memory. Feel yourself releasing the tension and negative thoughts from your head to your toes. Visualising the tension exiting your body and replacing that space with positivity is the key to permanently ridding yourself of these negative thoughts.
Soak it in and let it absorb the empty space of negativity that has left your body. This takes time, perhaps as short as 3 minutes, or as long as 10 minutes. However long it takes, ensuring you have completely detached from the negative thought is important. Any stranded thoughts can resurface into the negative energy you are working at resolving.
