Do you want to have more positive thinking but you can’t seem to make it work?
You won’t be on your own because most minds get stuck when moving from poor thoughts to better ones. The current neural pathways that fire constant lesser thoughts to the awareness have become fused in and well developed. Due to many years of repeated use, these lower thinking paths have formed powerfully and will need some budging.
This is why when you WANT to think more optimistically, it never lasts very long. Or never gets going in the first place.
Is there an easier way to get a better head space?
What can you do to experience positive thinking for longer?
The Bitesize Brain.
Your brain is a complex machine.
It has sheer mega computing power and stunning memory recall. It can multi-task and consider both deep questions and challenging problems. From crosswords to life’s conundrums, your brain is one super computer.
But, computers are reprogrammable.
They can be made to forget one set of informational instructions in favour of a newer set. That can be done by simply changing the software (the operating system that has instructions for use) and rebooting.
You can do the same. But, instead of one swift upgrade like in the computer world, you are going to do this in miniature in the mental world.
You are going to bitesize your brain with new input. Little bits of positive input.
You can’t just command the mind to completely change the way it has previously thought at the snap of your fingers. But you can, bit by bit, get it to accept alternative thinking in building brick doses.
Each new thought is going to act like a Lego brick. Piece by piece, adding to what’s come before it, a little masterpiece is going to be constructed. One day, not far from now, those tiny little bricks of thought will form a newly shaped mentality that you can play with to your heart’s desire.
Let’s build a new positively wired brain!
Micro Mental Magic.
Brain building can be done by anyone.
You DON’T need to be some naturally gifted genius or first class honours graduate. Everyone from the janitor to a princess, professor to a ballet teacher, can rebuild their mind. It’s THEIR mind, so they are the one who can change how it works.
And the same goes for you. You can rethink how you think. So, let’s get you doing that in micro thinking style to form a new positive neural pathway filled brain mind.
Positive thinking for hours and hours while negative thoughts go have a cup of coffee and let you get on with it, ain’t gonna happen. Don’t fight that fact. Use it to your advantage.
Instead of longer periods trying to retain a positive mindset, aim for micro moments. These are small chunks of positivity and optimism for, say, 15 minutes to begin with. As you find that less challenging in a week, up it to 20 mins, then 30. NEVER get over confident and go straight to an hour. Your mind has to form new neural pathways, they won’t develop in big leaps. They need short, consistent growth.
See it like snakes and ladders.
You don’t want fast progress only to slip right back down to the start.
Short IS sweet in mindset terms.
Little and Often.
Time to think like you are exercising.
To develop fitness, you start small, with limited periods of running, weights, cardio workouts etc. Then, as you improve, you step up the length of the exercise. This is to help build resilience in your body and to get it to gradually become stronger.
In other words, little bites repeated often.
Copy that. If you can muster it, set a reminder on your phone or watch to have 10 – 15 mins positive thinking every two or three hours. As you find it increasingly easier to maintain the better thinking (neural pathways are growing and more powerful) reduce to once per hour.
The obvious next progression follows – 20 – 30 mins at a time per hour. And so on. That’s how a super mindset is formed. A few minutes gradually per hour gradually expanding to a few hours at a time.
If you keep it up employing a sensible increase in the time you have positive thoughts, and not overconfident jumps straight into trying to have a whole day, the new neural networks in your mind will lock in and grow.
Like building a sturdy wall, micro thinking will build a whole chain of positive neuroplasticity links in your mind. Superhighways of more super stuff thinking wise.
In terms of great thinking that sticks and lasts, micro is the way to go!
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