MENTAL SLIPPAGE - CONTENT OF YOUR THOUGHTS
The second aspect of mental slippage has to do with the content of your thoughts.
Not only are your thoughts out of control, the content of those thoughts is out of whack as well.
The content becomes so disturbing that it drives some people to the point of suicide.
People hear the same critical condemning voice repeating the same destructive message over and over. It initiates a downward spiral that can end in self-destruction if uncorrected.
As long as you control the content of your thoughts, and that content is positive, it's impossible for depression to take control of your mind.
The treatment of depression has two phases. First, you must regain control of your thoughts. Second, you must change what those thoughts say; you must change the content.
How can you change the content of your thoughts?
Your thoughts always turn in the direction of what you put into your mind. You change the content of your thoughts by changing what you way when you talk to yourself.
Life doesn't consist so much of facts and events. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that blows endlessly through your mind.
What you put into your mid becomes the wind that blows there.
When negative and depressing thoughts gain entrance, a cyclone of negativity and depression sweeps through your life.
If you fill your mind with positive thoughts, you experience fair winds and following seas as you sail on the ocean of your dreams.
Depressed people need to be extremely selective about what they allow into their mind, because content is king. If they put good things into their mind, their life improves. If they put negative and depressing thoughts into their mind, they slip further into the Pit of Depression.
The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind.
You must stand guard on the door of your mind and prevent the toxic waste of the twenty-first century from getting inside, and you must start putting tons of positive things into your mind.
You can make the content of your thoughts anything you want. If you want to be more positive, then put more positive things into your mind.
Too often, the treatment of depression focuses only on eliminating cognitive distortions without taking people to the next level and showing them how to put positive things into their mind.
Eliminating the negative isn't enough. You must learn how to create a positive brain and install a positive operating system.
Remember, if you want to have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.
Excerpt from :
Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind
