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“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.” [Gandhi] So how do you know which thoughts
are valuable and which thoughts are to be disregarded. It’s usually the negative thoughts that have a particular power to affect our destiny. So next time you are having a thought which in some way is self critical, judgemental, worried or stressed, take a mindful moment, pause, and ask yourself if this thought is supporting you to be the person you want to be, and live in the way you want to live. Recognise what emotion is below the thought that might be driving that type of thinking. Is there fear, overload, stress, hurt, anxiety, shame or anger? By getting to the root of the emotion behind the thought you can then make wiser decisions about how to respond to what is triggering that emotion, rather than stay captive to unproductive thought loops.
below the thought that might be driving that type of thinking.
FIVE STEPS TO FINDING GREATER EMOTIONAL FREEDOM THROUGH MINDFULNESS
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Notice when you are having a thought that is negative or creating
emotional discomfort
Ask yourself, is this thought moving me towards or away from what I value and how I want to be living?
If you discover the thought is moving you away from who you want to be
and how you want to live in the world, then simply let the thought go and unhook from the toxic radio station in your mind that is sending you unhelpful messages. Realise that this thought, is just a thought and not an authority.
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Take a moment to bring compassion to yourself as you recognise and
uncover the underlying emotion that is fuelling these negative, unhelpful thought streams.
Remind yourself that the nature of the mind is to think. It is constantly
producing thoughts, some of which are creative and inspired and others which are holding you captive and bringing
you down. Realise that you don’t have to believe every thought that comes into your mind. Mindfulness, that capacity to be aware of what is happening from moment to moment, helps you guard your own mind, carefully choosing which thoughts you are letting influence your choices and life. n
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Elise Bialylew is the founder of Mindful in May, an online global mindfulness campaign that teaches thousands of people each year to meditate
whilst raising funds to build clean water projects in the developing world. A doctor trained in psychiatry turned social entrepreneur, she’s passionate about supporting individuals and organisations to develop inner tools to flourish and offers workshops and training at The Mind Life Project. Her work has featured in the Huffington Post, New York Times, and on Australian Television.
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