{"id":48202,"date":"2017-03-14T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=48202"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:45:56","slug":"5-steps-to-beat-your-nagging-thoughts-even-if-they-are-sticky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/5-steps-to-beat-your-nagging-thoughts-even-if-they-are-sticky\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps to Beat Your Nagging Thoughts (Even If They Are Sticky)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thoughts rule our world.<\/p>\n

A simple thought like \u201cRember to give people a smile\u201d can give us a day made of wonderful encounters.<\/p>\n

Too often, though, our thinking makes us small, uneasy, limited.<\/p>\n

But are we really at the mercy of our thoughts?<\/p>\n

The answer is no. Thoughts – especially the nagging ones – like to pretend to be the boss.<\/p>\n

But they are not. The real boss – over your thoughts and your life – is always you.<\/p>\n

The following five steps help you to win back control over your thoughts, once for all.<\/p>\n

Step 1 – Say no to the anarchy of your thoughts<\/h2>\n

Just like emotions, thoughts are always with us. But if we ask ourselves what thoughts were part of our day, we barely remember a handful (often the nagging ones) of them.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the thoughts we are aware of are just the tip of the iceberg. Most of our notions happen on a subconscious level. And our thoughts use that unattended situation to lively connect with each other and build (preferably) toxic thought-chain-reactions.<\/p>\n

These \u201chidden\u201d thought programs are the breeding ground for the nagging thoughts you are aware of.<\/p>\n

So to beat your nagging thoughts, you first have to \u201cclean up\u201d the thinking culture in your subconscious underground.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see how to get access to that \u201cunderworld\u201d in the next step!<\/p>\n

Step 2 – Start a thought journal<\/h2>\n

Thoughts are always the starting point of the following chain reaction:<\/p>\n

Thought – emotion – behavior.<\/p>\n

A thought leads into an emotion and that emotion directs your behavior.<\/p>\n

Research shows<\/a>\u00a0that any form of negative rumination will send you into destructive emotions that lead to destructive behavior.<\/p>\n

To change these chain reactions, we have to reverse engineer them. Since most thoughts are not easy for us to catch, we focus on our emotions to detect and decode them.<\/p>\n

Whenever your emotions \u201cfeel bad,\u201d you reverse engineer:<\/p>\n