When Your Thoughts Become Gremlins
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Have you watched the movie Gremlins? Those cute, fluffy, clever little creatures are a good analogy for our thoughts. Thoughts that seem quite harmless, even good, can quickly multiply if given just a drop of water.
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If we feed and nurture negative thoughts, they multiply in ways that can turn our lives upside down, causing negativity, depression, loneliness, self-hate, anger and frustration to rule our minds and our hearts. Our thoughts can start to control us.
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We all have little gremlins in our minds. Some of us believe ourselves to be unworthy and of little value to anyone. Some of us believe we are not enough. Not good enough, not strong enough, not clever enough, not pretty enough … the list of ‘not enoughs’ is endless.
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When our thoughts are negative towards other people
And then of course there are some of us who believe that no one else is good enough. Some of us believe that only our opinion is valid. You tell yourself that you work harder than anyone else. If someone makes a mistake they are incompetent, and if that mistake impacts on you, they’re a waste of your time and energy. You are forever dealing with and fixing everyone else’s mistakes and making up for their incompetence. The gremlin of hubris has free reign in your life.
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When a single thought becomes all we can think about
Each of the massive mountains we face mentally and emotionally starts out as a single, innocent thought.?Because we allow it to go unchecked, it gains momentum and gathers weight, snowballing. Very soon we are held captive by thoughts that become a ‘core truth’ we believe about ourselves or about other people.
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See yourself through the eyes of those around you
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Consider yourself from your client’s perspective, from your best friend’s perspective, and from your patients’ perspective. Does what they see match what you see? It is very unlikely. Let their perspectives start to shed a little light on your thinking and beliefs about yourself. Let their perspectives shine a light on your gremlins.