Give Your Brain New Things To Think About

If given the chance, our brain is going to run amok. It’s going to fill your mind with all of the worst possible case scenarios.

It’s going to tell you how you’re not enough; it’s going to remind you of that one time that you said that one thing to that one person, and how dumb you felt afterwards.

Your brain has a negativity bias – meaning it’s wired to look for what’s wrong with the world, what’s wrong with you, so that you know where to get to work. Where to be worried, where there might be danger.

And that’s okay. Our brain is wired for our safety.

But we can also know that’s what we’re working with, and use it to our advantage.

Just because our brain is wired to look for the negative, doesn’t mean that we always need to look for the negative.

Just because our brain on default likes to point out all of our flaws, doesn’t mean that we need to dwell on them and get down on ourselves.

Just because our brain is shouting DANGER because of the situation in our world right now, doesn’t mean that’s the only thing we need to be focusing on.

What good have you fed your brain today?

Where have you purposely directed your thoughts towards what you love? Something that you’re grateful for?

Instead of telling yourself that life as you know it will be over, how can you challenge yourself to think of new possibilities with these changing times?

This isn’t ignoring reality or pretending that everything is rosy and peachy- this is choosing purposely what story is going on in your brain.

I want to challenge you to balance out the negative with the positive. If you just had a discussion with your mother in law for an hour, and you ended it feeling depressed about life – go on a walk for an hour and choose to remember that the trees are still growing. That the birds are still singing. That the world is waking up with spring. Coronavirus or not.

Give yourself time to worry – maybe set the timer for 5 minutes each day, and that’s your worry time. Then when the timer goes off, put your mind to something else. Each time that your brain starts to worry again, remind yourself that you’re not thinking those thoughts until tomorrow’s worry time.

The world is not in your control, but how you think and how you feel is.

Start reigning your brain back in, and tell it what to think.

Same as yesterday, choose to think powerful thoughts.

Guaranteed you’ll like the effect of it a lot more.

P.S. All of these sentences in your head lately? Your brain is doing what it’s always done – coronavirus is just bringing everything to the surface. We can start coaching on how you’re responding to this situation, or we can dive into an area that you’re struggling with whether coronavirus is wrecking the world or not. It’s fascinating to see how our brain is working in one area, and then apply it to every single other area of our life. How we do one thing is how we do everything. Let’s work on the first one, and the other areas will come even easier.