Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

by Jennie Allen

The average person has more than thirty thousand thoughts per day. Of those, so many are negative that “according to researchers, the vast majority of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of a toxic thought life.”7

a full-fledged assault is taking place in those folds of tissue that make you who you are. The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.

The danger of toxic thinking is it produces an alternate reality, one in which distorted reasoning actually seems to make sense.

The part of your brain that activates when you feel rejected or uninvited by a friend is the same part of your brain that fires when you’re in physical pain.6 Maybe this is why breakups and severed friendships literally hurt.