Are Your Thoughts Ruining Your Life
Usually, thoughts are a gift. Thoughts are mighty, influential, and impressive human strength. Thoughts can be active, creative, conceptual, enjoyable, entertaining, fruitful, inventive, imaginative, and decisive. Thoughts, on the other hand, be upsetting, overwhelming, haunting, and even terrorizing.
The Dark Side of Thoughts
There is also a dark side to thoughts. Excessively focusing on thoughts can also become addicting. Thoughts can also be habitual, intrusive, harmful, painful, traumatic, scary, and stressful as well as unhealthy in the case of depressing, self-sabotaging, or suicidal thoughts.
Everyone is susceptible to forming an addiction to a thought or set of thoughts. Thought addiction is much more prevalent and common than many people know. The concept of thought addiction is rarely affirmed out loud. Therefore, an addiction to thought could remain in the shadows of the subconscious mind and hidden from professionals, leaving suffer in fear of their thoughts. In fear of fear. In fear of nothingness and painful silence. Terrorized and stuck in his or her head, fearing their own thoughts. Fighting and scared of something that cannot be seen or control.
Most importantly, a thought addiction can latch on and terrorize a mental and emotional system easily.
What is a Thought Addiction?
The definition of thought addiction is the development of a habitual pattern around a thought, set of thoughts or statements. Meaning the formation of an unhealthy attachment to beliefs, a set of thoughts or harmful comments can be miserable. It is essential to recognize and understand the difference between everyday continuous thinking and a full-blown thought addiction.
A full-blown thought addiction is where a thought(s), or harmful statements intensify through "brain rain." Brain rain manifests through anxiety, negative thinking, overthinking, obsessive thinking, thought looping, ruminating, or worry. At that point, when thought addiction intensifies into brain rain, it becomes destructive, inappropriate, or dangerous.
The lesson is that you believe and become what you dwell on.
An addictive involvement with a thought which becomes toxic, depletes every aspect of the person’s life, inside and out. Believe it or not, everyone gets caught up in a thought addiction at some time or another during their lifetime.
For example:
Depressive, obsessive, or suicidal thoughts are considered to be harmful habitual thoughts patterns. These types of thoughts can loop continuously in your mind, and they seem like they never can be stopped. An overwhelming thought, which feels out of control and never ends, can result in personal damage or death. Thought addiction is present when a person’s thoughts become so diluted. From that point on a person is locked out of reality, and his or her perception becomes clouded with misleading and false facts. Thought addiction affects how a person functions in everyday situations with themselves, their thoughts, their emotions and others in the world.
Ignoring a thought addiction is a real threat to a person's relationship with yourself, relationships with others, and connection with reality. Thought addiction many times is the forerunner of a secondary habit to an emotion, substance, or behavior. What this means a thought addiction is a phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future destructive attachments.
Thought Addiction Affects Your Life Directly
Let’s face it, everyone will suffer from an addicted negative, self-destructive, obsessive, suicidal thought, or thought addiction from time to time during our lives. Some people become so fixated on a negative, self-destructive, obsessive, or suicidal thought. These types of habitual ideas can form a repetitive pattern of thinking. This type of thought fixation can more than likely turn into an unhealthy addictive attachment that cannot be let go of, that does not serve or becomes toxic.
When fixated on these types of repetitive thoughts, a person will spend so much time focused on thinking that it impairs daily living. These thoughts will develop into a constant mental loop, repeating over and over. Once stuck in a thought loop, the person is rarely can enjoy life because he or she are always worried about something "going wrong or bad happening." The person may get so deep into a thought addiction that all other relationships in their lives are avoided or ignored.
A Thought Addiction Can Terrorize Your Mind
Don’t let your thoughts control and enslave you. You should define how you believe and, ultimately, how you think. You cannot control your thoughts, but you can rescript your beliefs, and that action will change your thoughts directly.
8 Tips Your Thoughts are Terrorizing Your Mind
These tips are beneficial to become more aware of what is going on in your mind as well as increasing your ability to monitor your thoughts. Sometimes thoughts are seen as independently produced, but that is not so. More accurately, thoughts are a direct byproduct of the content of the belief system, especially the core beliefs contained within. Sometimes when under stress or through those uncertain times, it feels as though your mind has control over the production of your thoughts, and you do not. Constant thought looping feels akin to a terrorist who is taking up space in your mind. This process of thinking can cause you to feel out of control. Also, a thought addiction can take power over your mind and eventually become toxic.
So how do you know you might be suffering from a thought addiction?
The following are eight tips to assist in understanding if your thoughts have taken over your mind. If you answer "YES" on more than five tips below, you are under high stress and anxiety, which you need to address with a professional.
1. When a thought in your head consumes all your time, and you're unable to stop thinking about that thought no matter what is happening in your life
2. When you are so focused on a thought or set of thoughts that you are not experiencing what's happening at the moment
3. When you find yourself returning to a thought, you promised you would not think about ever again
4. You spend more time in an attachment to thought rather than interacting with yourself or others in your life
5. When eating and sleeping patterns are severely disrupted, due to constant fixation on a particular thought or set of thoughts
6. You experience an increase in anxiety or stress when you think of a specific thought or set of thoughts
7. You feel your thinking will cause something terrible will happen to you
8. You seem to be in a state of fear about the way you're thinking all the time. You become fearful of fear itself
There are ways to rid yourself of a thought addiction. Don't lose faith.
The Fix
Knowing when your mind is repetitively thinking the same thoughts over and over again through self-monitoring is the first step. Once you recognize what is going on, counter the process by increasing your mindfulness of what you are thinking. Then monitor your thoughts during the day and determine if your thoughts are of your thoughts. Finally, evaluate whether your thoughts are good or bad, harm or productive, realistic or unrealistic, useful or not. If they are not helpful, then denounce each one as harmful, wrong, and silly while refusing to accept any of the harmful beliefs. Once you face these non-serving thoughts, self-empowerment can be yours.
Afterthoughts
Facing your harmful, addictive thoughts will stir up countering core beliefs housed in your subconscious mind, and these harmful will begin to surface into your consciousness. Determine if your core beliefs are good or bad. Also, are your thoughts your's or been given to you by someone else’s suggestions. If, like your thoughts, your beliefs don’t serve you, then create new ones. Then you can denounce and delete the core beliefs which are harmful, self-destructive or don't help you at all.
Lastly, create new beliefs to take the place of the old beliefs. Practice by repeating the new beliefs daily for 90 days, and you will have positive beliefs and new thinking.
Change your core beliefs and you change your world.
Click here to take a free self-assessment to determine if you have a thought addiction or not.
Coach Bill
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