HOW TO DEAL WITH NEGATIVE SELF-TALK

Some people fall into thinking that “since self-talk creates emotions if you take control of the self-talk and only say positive things—you will begin to feel positive emotions and self-negative talks in you will die a natural death,” is that easy?. Nevertheless, throughout my college, I struggled mentally with continuous emotional spiral to the extent that I started developing self-strategy to dealing with the growing negativity in me.

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I attempted almost every tactics that are on my reach and capabilities and yet could not come up with something reasonable of my feelings and emotions.

The only thing I could attest to have worked was “talking to myself in a positively, in spite of the emotions or the situation at my circumstances. Although, it carries mental or sometimes even emotional challenges, reversing your negative thought to positive when everything seems turning the upside or working against your wishes isn’t easy, though, it works.

It’s is easier to make a mental reversal whenever a negative talk trickles in but difficult to arrive at a conclusion. When your thoughts tends to be posing more of negativity than the normal positivity, you might decide to inform your mind of that which you can’t afford to break. It might be a mind-reminder to ring you when the odd is trying to set in, and then you work urgently or faster to reversing the trend.    

 Alternatively, you might try my first tactics, which is being quiet and not uttering a word.

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Overtime it would either reverse or get weaken, and positive talk will reflect back.

The greatest strategy that proved effective then was when I nearly give up! All hopes were lost and I could not think of anything strategic as useful, as I have tried so many strategies but only managed to stay at the minimum.

However, I started thinking of what to do next and I came across RECORDING yourself self-talk. Nevertheless, I almost failed to try it.

Therefore, I set out at practicing it. I bought beads and tie it on a string, (It will look like necklace) then I started, each time I feel like nursing a negative thought, or if I feel like talking to myself in a negative way. I would remove one bead and put it on a punch.

I continued doing this repeatedly, for a whole day and was able to discover that I say more of negative talk than the actual positive.