Using Psychology to Combat Negative Thoughts

A little psychology game I like to play to destroy all my negative thoughts.

And before you scroll, I know I look ridiculous.

Someone called me Frat Buddha.

But every time I have a negative thought, I now have the awareness to do this, and

it completely changed my life because it's honestly made it like a fun little game

that I like to play, and it's backed by science, which

is hilarious.

But the one thing that I do, and you're gonna laugh when I do it,

is anytime you

have a negative thought, and this is for chronic overthinkers like myself,

I'm

right there with you, buddy. Anytime you have--

you're spinning the wheels, you

know, you're going through that process, you're gonna laugh when I do it.

But every time you go down that rabbit hole,

instead of just letting yourself go, voice it out loud.

But not only that, the funnest part is you go like this.

You name it something.

I personally named mine Balthazar.

So anytime that I have a negative thought, I go, "Yo, Balth, shut the fuck up."

And then I wait, and I think about what my next thought

is gonna be, and then I

usually just laugh, and it's a positive thought.

So name your inner, inner critic.

Name something every time you're overthinking because when you can separate

yourself from the emotion and separate yourself from the negative

thought, that's

like the second level of consciousness to become aware and disassociate in

the process of having that negative thought.

So if you can disassociate from that and not identify with the thought,

but be an

observer of the thought, Eckhart Tolle speaks about this,

that's when you're truly

gonna feel free, and the first step in that

is naming it and detaching

from the fact that it's you 'cause it's not. It's just a thought.

It's a passing car.