When was the last time you thought about what you think? If you have, would you say that most of your thoughts are positive, negative, or something in between? Your answer tells a lot about your general attitude and disposition. It also has a profound effect on your physical and mental health.

Many people are unaware of the nature of their thinking habits. Why is it unfortunate? It is unfortunate because negative thoughts are very harmful. Negative thoughts can race through your head. They result from events in your life that cause you to feel very stressed and anxious. When someone worries, they believe that a certain unpleasant thing is true. However, in most cases, it is really not true.

Researchers conclude that negative thoughts drain
At this stage, the effects damage the mind and body. Some describe it as being "a prisoner in your own mind." If not changed, anything event or thing that resembles those that produced the strong emotional response can cause you to experience of "flood" of overwhelming thoughts and feelings to whirl through your mind.

Ongoing negative thoughts decrease your ability to concentrate and make it harder to achieve goals. Furthermore, perpetually dwelling on unpleasant events from your past or fearing potential future events will disrupt your memory and sleep. Unless steps are taken to mitigate the pattern of perpetual negative thinking, the condition will become chronic. Individuals whose thoughts negative thinking reaches the chronic stage enter into clinical depression.

Depression is the mind's self-preservation effort by drastically limiting your ability to experience emotions. The unpleasant effects of depression are familiar. Though, did you know there are benefits to being depressed? Depression allows you to use greater caution before taking action. By demonstrating greater caution, depression creates the opportunity to make better choices. Researchers discovered a neurological explanation for negative thinking. Located in a part of the brain that controls our emotions is the
Two very important ones are more time and more energy. Instead of losing time on the merry-go-round of negative thinking, you will regain all that time to spend on productive and life enriching activities.

3. Convert Negative Thoughts into Positive Acts
According to Deepak Chopra, obsessive thoughts are a cry for help. Here are a few examples, "I'm not good at Algebra; I'll never pass the final," or "There's no possible way I'll be able to finish before the deadline." Deepak explains how to get the needed help.

First, acknowledge that you feel scared. Fear is the actual emotion related to your chronic negative thinking. Do not try to force negative thoughts away. It will not work. Instead, change your mental focus by sitting quietly, focus on the breath as you inhale and exhale long, slow, and quietly.

Another method is to change your physical space. That does not mean get the latest ideas from HGTV and run to your local hardware supply store. Changing your physical space is as simple as taking a break to go for a