This document discusses how negative thoughts impact us and provides steps to overcome negative thinking and lead a stress-free life. It explains that negative thoughts stem from ingrained beliefs and can cause feelings of depression, physical effects, and prevent opportunities. Some ways to overcome negative thinking include identifying negative thoughts, surrounding yourself with positive people, thinking independently, meditating, being kind to others, exercising, and focusing on positive news. Daily practices like meditation, spending time in nature, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help fight negativity.

2. What’s in it for you?
By going through this presentation,
you will realize how negative
thoughts impact us and how you can
fight it and lead a wonderful stress
free life.

4. Where do negative thoughts come from?
Negative thoughts are caused by ingrained
patterns related to our own beliefs: about
self-esteem, security, money, people, life, and
everything else.

5. What are the effects of negative thinking?
• Feeling down. The extent of negative feelings can go from anger,
frustration, irritability, to even anxiety and depression, passing
through many other feelings, none of them pleasant.
• Physical effects: the body lowers its defences, as negativity
subtracts from our energy.
• Closing oneself down to possibilities and the flow of abundance.
When we are in a negative state we do not attract those elements
that would make our lives advance; rather we attract the
circumstances that support us in thinking something is wrong, and
we get stuck.
• It's a waste of time! Look at all the effects of negative thinking
explained above; can you tell me one single benefit of thinking
negatively and being in a negative mood?
Any other than the realization that it's much better to think
positively, negative thinking doesn't contribute to our lives; rather
it detracts.

6. How do we come out of it?
• The first step in changing your thoughts is identifying the negative thought.
You can control what you think about. Taking a negative thought, identifying it and
figuring out why you're having the thought gives you the opportunity to change that
thought into a positive one. Stopping to contemplate your thoughts also gives you the
opportunity to make rational decisions. We're quick to make decisions about things
without thinking them through.
• The second step is to surround yourself with positive people and positive situations.
Being around negative people makes it difficult for you to be positive. And, even when
you are positive you may be criticized for being overly optimistic. Don't leave yourself in
situations where you know the outcome is going to be a negative one. If you put
yourself in these situations you are putting yourself at risk for having negative thinking
patterns and possibly even for falling into a depression that could have been avoided.
• The third step in learning to think positively is thinking for yourself. Just because
someone is being negative it does not mean that you aren't entitled to your own
thoughts and beliefs. You are not obligated to accept other people's negative opinions.

7. Steps to get rid of negative thoughts
• Learn to stop negative thinking immediately.
• Do something kind for someone.
• Take A Little Walk-Fresh air and exercise can really
help banish negativity. When you get your heart rate
up, your brain releases chemicals that make you feel
good. So, get moving!
• Clean Up Your Environment.
• Meditate to Stop Negative Thinking

8. •
How do you meditate?
Find a quiet space to relax, and close your eyes gently.
• Focus your energy on each of your muscle groups, one at a
time. If you feel tense, relax your muscles.
• Focus on your breathing. Focus on breathing in, and then
focus on breathing out. Feel the air entering your nostrils and
passing through to your lungs. You are alive and breathing –
and you are meditating!
• Once you learn how to meditate, you’ll very likely discover
that making a daily practice of finding the peace within
yourself benefits you greatly – and you’ll also find that you’ve
got a lot less negativity to deal with, on every level.
• Whatever you do to banish negativity, remember –
you are doing something good for yourself, and
making yourself into a better person.
That, in itself, is worth being happy about!

9. Tips to Fight Negativity
• It may take consistent effort to control negative thoughts. Be aware of
your thinking patterns and make a conscious effort to replace negative
thoughts with positive ones.
• Stay away from energy vampires and other negative people, who can
affect your own outlook on life.
• While it's good to be aware of what is going on in the world, don't
constantly watch TV programs or read news items that make life seem
impossibly hopeless. Focus on doing something useful and relaxing such
as planting a garden, exercising or playing with kids.
• Learn to delegate and/or manage time better.
• Get enough sleep, drink plenty of pure water and eat a junk food free
diet. Also important is to take the time to enjoy and appreciate the food
you are eating. Gulping down food on the run is a sure way to contribute
to overall poor health.
• Control angry outbursts by walking away when a situation reaches boiling
point. Force yourself to breathe deeply and calm down.

12. You cannot help the world by focusing on the
negative things. As you focus on the world's
negative events, you not only add to them,
but you also bring more negative things into
your own life. -Rhonda Byrne.
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of making people happy and positive for life.
Have a wonderful and happy weekend.
-Sohini Banerjee.