Dr Nicolya Williams

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The truth about negative thinking

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Life isn’t always easy. Yet, we make life more challenging with negative thinking. The

influence of negative thoughts is far-reaching. There’s no part of your life that

escapes. It affects you mentally, emotionally, and physically. It limits your ability to

achieve and to enjoy life. There are reasons why pessimists are so miserable.

There are 2 primary effects that negative thinking has on your life:

1. It has a negative impact on your mood and outlook on life. Negative thinking

feels bad. Thinking negative thoughts can make you feel sad, afraid, angry,

hopeless, and negative in general. These emotions taint the way you view the

world and have a deleterious effect on your ability to make wise decisions.

2. Negative thinking inhibits your ability to achieve goals. For any objective, you

have things pulling you toward your goal and other things pushing you away.

When you think negative thoughts about achieving a goal, you’re much less able

to accomplish it.

3. Negative thinking actually damages your health.

Reducing the incidences of negative thinking is one of the most effective ways to

spend your time and enhance your life. Negative thoughts can harm your happiness,

success, and health. Spend time to ensure that your thoughts are supportive and

positive and turn your life around.