We often hear people say that they have to reprogramme their brain to achieve something. However in reality, all they have to do is program things for the first time.
There are all these patterns of instances and circumstances that have all coalesced into automatic thoughts and behaviours that people aren’t necessarily being responsible for.
An article in success.com gives you one simple framework to think through and then some tips, tools and strategies that you can immediately input into your life to better manage your mind.
The highest performers in the world say that they discipline their mind to come out with positive thoughts that would lead to making healthy decisions in life.
'One of the simplest ways to do that is this framework to understand how thoughts develop into strong and automatic thoughts. I call the framework 'RWID,' which stands for relative weight of importance and duration,' author of the article states.
People who often get negative thoughts is a result of them giving more importance to the negative ones than the positive ones.
There’s a negative and a positive aspect to that. The negative is, if you keep obsessing about negative things, your mind will be automatically conditioned to bring it up without your control—automatically. The positive aspect is that we can use that same skillset and same rule to apply positive thoughts into our own life.
We can give positive thinking, positive questions, positive approaches a lot of importance in our life. Focus on them and give a lot of duration to them over a period of time, and they get sealed in the brain as well.
The first thing you have to do in order to improve your mind is to take total control of your attention and notice where your thoughts are right now.
Be aware, be conscious of what’s going on in your body, in your sense of feeling and emotion, and have a sense of the thoughts you’re actually having. Just start paying attention.
The more we notice what we’ve been thinking about, the more we can interrupt what we’ve been thinking about.
If we just allow that feeling to keep coming up and we don’t pay attention to it, our life can be frazzled and highly anxious. But once we say, What’s my mind on right now? and we redirect it, that’s where personal power comes from.
If it’s negative and it’s not supporting you, redirect it by thinking about a positive thing.
Focus on that and repeat it to yourself. Visualize that positive thing and assign a high amount of importance and duration to it. Make that thing important to you by giving it a sensation.
By repeating a positive alternative to a negative impulse, we give ourselves personal power. If you take action on a consistent basis, it teaches your mind to do that. So do things that are positive for you. Take bolder actions. Teach yourself, I’m just going to be confident for no other reason.
