http://www.anxietyguru.net/how-to-defeat-negative-thinking/ Anxiety Guru is about anxiety symptoms, causes and tips on how to overcome it. It also gives you details about the author\'s personal struggle with anxiety. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anxietyguru.net/how-to-defeat-negative-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Tamar Chansky Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:53:46 +0000 http://www.anxietyguru.net/?p=220#comment-80 Yes! Isn't it amazing that in fact the less attention we pay to negative thoughts, the fewer brain resources are devoted to those unhelpful circuits. I talk about these ideas in my new book, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility and Happiness. If we thought of our negative thoughts more like "junk mail" or "telemarketers" or "spam" we would know to ignore them because we don't (yikes, and apologies to those in those businesses) value them-- they certainly DON'T know what we need as well as we do even though they seem to assume that authority. We are in charge, however, and can decide where we invest our attention. When we realize the choice is ours, we can start making better choices. Yes! Isn’t it amazing that in fact the less attention we pay to negative thoughts, the fewer brain resources are devoted to those unhelpful circuits. I talk about these ideas in my new book, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility and Happiness. If we thought of our negative thoughts more like “junk mail” or “telemarketers” or “spam” we would know to ignore them because we don’t (yikes, and apologies to those in those businesses) value them– they certainly DON’T know what we need as well as we do even though they seem to assume that authority. We are in charge, however, and can decide where we invest our attention. When we realize the choice is ours, we can start making better choices.

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