How to Rewire Your Brain to Override Negative Thoughts

The average person has over 6,000 thoughts per day.

With all those thoughts pin-balling through our heads each day, it's no wonder we have trouble keeping things straight.

We forget why we open the refrigerator.

We constantly lose focus at work.

Research has also shown that 80% of our thoughts are negative and 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.

This means that, for the most part, your brain is replaying the same negative thoughts day after day.

It's like choosing the saddest song on your iPod and putting it on repeat without ever changing the track.

Not the prettiest picture, is it?

It's no wonder many people feel like they can't positively change their life.

Their brain is taking its worst thoughts and keeping them top of mind so change feels impossible.

The good news is that the brain is like a computer.

You can slowly start to reprogram your brain to play positive thoughts in your head in place of the negative.

This has the potential to not only make your day-to-day brighter but also alter your future.

While negative thought patterns attract more negative events in our life, positive thought patterns attract positive events.

Put simply - if Jennifer thinks she's unlucky and broke, she will stay unlucky and broke. But if Jennifer starts to think she's lucky and rich, she can become lucky and rich.

It doesn't matter what Jennifer's actual reality is. She could have $5,000 to her name. All that matters is the "reality" Jennifer creates in her brain.

So, the question becomes, how do we change our thoughts from negative to positive?

Just like reprogramming a computer that has a virus, we must reprogram our brain.

This comes down to thinking positive thoughts and then using repetition to instill them in our minds.

One of the simplest things you can do is starting a 1-minute daily journal in which you write down a positive thought or affirmation.

A mentor of mine gave me an affirmation three years ago that I've been writing in my journal ever since.

Every single day, without fail, I write down the following line...

"I am happy, healthy, wealthy, and full of energy."

This line has slowly started to help me replace thoughts of anxiety and lack with thoughts of happiness and wealth.

I am flushing out the negative emotions and making room for the positive.

And, ever so slowly, I've noticed my actual reality match these new positive themes.

Famous late radio host Earl Nightingale said that "you become what you think about."

The challenge for us is to override the negative thoughts that bombard our minds 80% of the time and flip them to positive.

Start to rewire the thoughts in your brain, and you'll slowly begin to reroute the path of your life.

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P.S. My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute ! Check it out.