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A lot of our thoughts are automatic and negative. These automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) pop into our heads before we even know we're having them, and exert a powerful effect on our mood. For more on automatic negative thoughts, check out my Free CBT Self-Help Course https://shtoons.com/cbt. To support my channel 👇 ❤️ Join my channel with the JOIN button next to SUBSCRIBE ☕ Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/selfhelptoons 💚 PayPal https://paypal.me/selfhelptoons 🙏 Become A Patron https://www.patreon.com/SelfHelpToons 👉 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@selfhelptoons 👉 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selfhelptoons/ 👉 Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/selfhelptoons.bsky.social ▶️ Related videos: Cognitive Defusion https://youtu.be/CpdVMs818AE Letting Go of Thoughts https://youtu.be/Em_MblRfylo Thought Records https://youtu.be/shLocIzOcnU 🔗 To learn more about what you can do about your automatic negative thoughts, try my Online MBCT and MBSR course for free at https://www.mbctmbsronline.com/mbct.html. Free Clip Art by Vector Toons (https://vectortoons.com/) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Sign up for our WellCast newsletter for more of the love, lolz and happy! http://goo.gl/GTLhb This weeks worksheet: http://goo.gl/Vuucr Are you plagued by negative thinking? This week on WellCast, we're talking about automatic thoughts—those destructive worries that creep into your mind and escalate without reason, like "I'm not going to graduate," or "I'm going to get evicted." These thoughts are actually pretty harmful to your health, but never fear! We've got an exercise that will help you to start replacing those thoughts with healthy, calm, rational ones in no time! Check out some other awesome episodes of WellCast: 1. Coming Out http://goo.gl/amysN 2. Coping With Grief http://goo.gl/aD4OH 3. How to Break the Ice http://goo.gl/CmS8O 4. Dealing With Rejection http://goo.gl/f3Pw5 5. Party Survival Guide for Introverts http://goo.gl/WYZVe ABOUT WELLCAST: In this twice-a-week show, we explore the physical, mental and emotional paths to wellness. With an emphasis on education, the show addresses both the latest trends and long-standing practices of wellness—everything from the efficacy of the gratitude experiment to the importance of sunshine and vitamin D. Follow along as your host, Kate, guides you through a bi-weekly journaling exercises that helps you apply what you've learned. The ultimate goal: one year, one show, one journal, one collective journey to wellness. Like us on Facebook! http://goo.gl/0DHVJ Follow us on Twitter! http://goo.gl/Ylcv6 Find us on Google+ http://goo.gl/ylCVT Follow us on Tumblr! http://goo.gl/Ds3TB Follow us on Instagram! http://goo.gl/q3IUC Follow us on Pinterest! http://goo.gl/lNhu2

There’s a reason that insults stick with us longer than compliments. Is the glass half full or half empty? 🥛 Turns out, the way that you present a situation to people can really change how they feel about it — our brains tend to fixate on the negative aspects over the positive ones. Alison Ledgerwood, a UC Davis professor of psychology, studies how people tend to get stuck in particular ways of thinking and what they can do to get unstuck. Can we stop the negative thoughts? 🤓 Learn more about Alison’s research and how negative frames affect our opinions of politicians and policies: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-negative-campaigning-works-and-how-fight-it 🧠 The research highlighted in this video was supported in part by the National Science Foundation. ▶️ Why the teenage brain has an evolutionary advantage: https://youtu.be/P629TojpvDU 00:00 Intro 00:37 Negative and positive frames 1:54 Negatives really stick 2:05 Why is that? 2:37 Can we shift our way of thinking?  ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📺 Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY Fig. 1 explores new ideas and research out of the University of California — ranging from science, technology, art and humanities. Get inside the mind of a researcher. 💡Find more research at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/fig1 #insults #psychology #opinions

This video explains some of the things you can try when you feel overwhelmed by your thoughts. After the video, take a few moments to observe your thoughts with curiosity, paying attention to how each one makes you feel. Paying attention to your thoughts and sorting through them takes practice and patience. For more information, visit: https://teens.aboutkidshealth.ca/mentalhealth Subscribe to the AboutKidsHealth YouTube channel: http://ow.ly/CzrN50ClHN3 This video is provided for general information only. It does not replace a diagnosis or medical advice from a healthcare professional who has examined your child and understands their unique needs. Please speak with your doctor to check if the content is suitable for your situation. #MentalHealth #PositiveThinking #Mindfulness Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aboutkidshealth Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/aboutkidshealth Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/aboutkidshealth TRANSCRIPT Every day, we have thousands of thoughts, emotions, urges, memories and feelings. From the time we wake up in the morning, all throughout the day, to when we lay down to sleep at night. No matter who we are, we all have thoughts swirling around in our heads. We even think and feel in our dreams. Often, we don’t realize how many thoughts we are having, and we get lost in them. Sometimes, we’re not even aware that we’re thinking. We seem to be swimming in a sea of our own thoughts. When we are surrounded by our thoughts, it’s easy to get caught up in them and react automatically, sometimes in ways we don’t even mean to react. We might hold onto some thoughts, even when we don’t want to, and it can feel like our thoughts are overwhelming. But thoughts are not facts, and they are not always true, even if they seem to be. Next time you feel caught up in your thoughts, try paying attention to them with curiosity, and not judgment. It doesn’t matter if they are true or false, right or wrong; just notice them. How fast or slow are they? Are they are all very different from each other? Or perhaps you are having the same ones over and over again. Maybe they’re even focused on one theme. Some of these thoughts may be unwanted. But instead of reacting to them, notice what happens to your body sensations and your emotions when you have these thoughts. Perhaps you will notice if they are bringing you closer to or further away from what is important to you or the goals you have for yourself. Observing your thoughts is a skill that takes practice, like playing an instrument. Sometimes it'll be easy for you to be able to notice and respond to your thoughts. Other times, you might have to work really hard to get some distance from them. You might even have to keep letting go of the same unwanted thought over and over again. But don’t give up. Keep trying. Like waves in the ocean, thoughts are always passing through our minds, and can affect how we feel and what we do. But they are not “us”, and we are not our thoughts. Learning to be aware of our thoughts can allow us to respond with more choice instead of reacting in ways we may regret. Observing our thoughts gives us some distance to see how our thoughts make us feel. We can then choose to act in ways that bring us closer to the things and the people that are important to us. Remember, you are not your thoughts. Try observing your thoughts with curiosity. Try it right now.

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