How do you stop a negative thought from spiraling out of control?

You might feel it start and before you know it, you're going down a rabbit hole that you can't seem to dig yourself out of - feeling worse and worse and worse.

A client asked me this question on voxer this week and I have three different levels of how to break your negative thoughts, each depending on what stage of your personal development journey you're at, starting with beginner, intermediate, and then advanced.

You can use any one of them! And they build on each other. For beginners, the most common answer is to replace the negative thought with a more positive thought. This is where I started and there is no shame in this.

This is a surface-level tool. We're not truly addressing what's happening beneath the thought, which is why replacing a negative thought with a positive thought or a positive affirmation just doesn't quite hit the spot, but we all start somewhere.

It's a big shift and requires a lot of energy to shift from feeling really really bad to now thinking a thought that will hopefully make you feel really really good, so I would use a stair-stepping effort by thinking slightly more positive thoughts rather than moving from one extreme to another, which also leads to the intermediate step.

Tune into the episode and hear how the next two strategies work and how to implement them to stop a negative spiral.

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