4 Helpful Positive Thinking Techniques for Anxiety and Depression
Why is positive thinking so important?
By Sean Clarke
What’s the difference between feeling low, and feeling energised and upbeat? It’s of course down to how you’re thinking, and what you’re thinking about. Suffering from years of anxiety and depression, I wanted to put together a list of positive thinking techniques that help to pull me out of negative thinking patterns that I think we all find ourselves in from time to time.
If you’re like the rest of the human population, you probably find yourself in negative thinking spirals that can be brought on by a single event in your life. Before you know it, everything seems shitty and all hope is lost. Most of the time, we let ourselves marinade in our thoughts, causing them to become a bad habit, that then ends up also being a cycle. Your mind can be a helpful place, but sometimes it can give you unnecessary grief. So how can you put yourself straight and start finding hope when negative thoughts take over?
In my own personal experience, there are simple thinking techniques that can work wonders. I don’t believe in forcing yourself out of feeling fed up, because after all, you can end up feeling worse. However, a lot of the time it’s about plugging yourself back into logical thinking…
