There is a constant flow of thoughts through the human mind. It is next to impossible for the nerve cells connected with the human brain to remain in a state of stillness. The need for action based on thoughts will keep on permeating the mind. The foreseeable actions are mostly the result of certain sense elements that makes the body react like, sleep, hunger, thirst etc.
The way you Understanding the flow of Positive and negative emotions
Apart from these, there are other thoughts which can prompt the individual to take some action. These are emotion based thoughts rather than senses like anger, sadness, depression, ecstasy, dislike. And trying to understand their flow is challenging, but can be very useful.
As long as the feelings are positive, the after effects and the action follow through will have positive consequences. At the maximum level, it can be said that the damage effects will be bare minimum by its nature. There obviously can be unpleasant consequences of high and positive thoughts also.
To take an example, a person imbued with high self-confidence can take a headlong plunge into business investments. If the business decisions are wrong, the individual and dependents will be subject to severe business losses and difficulties. However, more often than not, positive thought process turns into positive actions. This is the world-wide behavioural pattern.
The adverse effects of a negative flow of thoughts into the depths of the human mind are severe and entailing unhappy consequences. This is again the world-wide behavioural pattern. It is in the rarest of rare cases that a negative frame of mind brings out a productive result.
At the maximum and at its best, it can be said that a negative thought process makes the person slightly guarded and cautious and nothing beyond that. In the larger sense, it is just an ill wind which brings ailments to one and all. This brings in focus the major question as to whether people have the power to bring control on negative thoughts at each and every stage of life.
There is the old and ever effective adage – “prevention is better than cure”. It is the need of the hour to understand how far it is within the precincts of the human mental process to blockade the negative thoughts. Once this is understood, it is half the battle won.
Do Human beings have control over their negative thoughts?
The answer to this is both a YES and a NO.
Each and every human soul on this planet is born into a social circle surrounded by near and dear ones. So any tragic incident related to the aforesaid mentioned living beings will naturally impact the human mind and create the feelings of sadness and loss, depending upon the extent of the situation.
If the incident is something as shaky as a death, then the mind gets badly scarred for a long time. This sets in negative mode of thinking which increases over the period and gets triggered with every minor incident. It is only perhaps the unattached human mentality which gets unaffected by the untimely death of a near and dear one.
Is renunciation the solution?
There are religious saints and holy men, who have renounced materialism and tend to be unaffected by the happenings around them and possess total control on any form of thought process. However, worldly renunciation may not always be the solution for everyone.
Even under normal circumstances, there are situations where the thinking process can go on a backtrack. Every human being lives in a competitive environment. A failure to attain certain desired objectives of life can lead to an increasing lack of control over negative thoughts through an erosion of self-belief and confidence.
The reasons can be varied and sometimes trivial but the end result is a setback of mental confidence. It may vary from scoring less marks during the academic age, lack of desired financial success at the professional level, a long time affair getting broken up and sometimes the inability to maintain a certain success level. It is very common to see high flying celebrities and top-notch sportsmen falling into depths of despair on not being able to maintain the status quo of being at the top.
Controlling negative thoughts is possible
Yes, it is equally possible to have control over negative thoughts. The mental state of caving into negativity in its simplest level is a function of a weak mind. Driving away any such state of mind requires a firm belief on the self and its capabilities. It also calls upon the fear factor not to be allowed into entering the mental framework at any point in time. Once it enters, then human thinking has a tendency to bow down to its overpowering nature.
It is not uncommon to hear and see many scenarios where people have risen up again and proven their mettle in spite of numerous setbacks. There are leaders and statesmen who have never let failures become the sinking point of their life. On the contrary, each failure and even multiple failures for such persons is the stepping stone to a new success. The mind in such cases has the power to control the negativity and give precedence to positive at every stage.
When we try to analyze the possibilities of the root cause of our negative thoughts, the chances of finding out ways to control them also becomes high. For that, we need to first understand, that self-confidence and a calm, rational mind are the primary requisites. It might be extremely difficult, but not impossible.
