Do you have ANTs in your brain? (DW#482)
Did you know that the average person thinks between 50,000-70,000 thoughts per day? The thoughts that pass through our brain last only split seconds and range from the mundane -- I need to do groceries, to the significant – My family really matters to me, to the self-destructive -- I'm not good enough.
And did you know that most of these thoughts are the same thoughts we think every day? Our thoughts seem to be on autopilot most of the time and appear to come from nowhere.
AND did you know that the majority of these automatic thoughts are negative. (The reason for this is rather interesting and something that we will deal with on another day)
Psychologists have coined a phrase for these thoughts: ANTs – Automatic Negative Thoughts.
I like to think of them as ANTs eating the positive side of my brain. A yucky but powerful image, wouldn’t you say?
How many ANTs can you catch today?
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