Reprogram Your Mind: Build A Positive Mindset To Stop Living In Fear And Panic By Overcoming Negative Emotions

by John Ward

Despite the numerous emotions that exist in the world, three play a crucial role in how we turn out. They are depression - emotions from the past, fear - from things that plague us in the present - and anxiety - the emotions of the future.

There are a lot of people suffering from a negative mindset. Most times, it is not the fault of the people living in this kind of mindset, at other times; some people just find themselves in the situation.

Sometimes, we put up feelings to mask the negativity we feel. I know all this because I have been there too. Concealing a living emotion is an explosion waiting to happen. I don’t want you to ruin yourself or end up neck-deep into greater negativity; all I want for YOU is to be happy.

However, before we delve into that and how they come about, we will first distinguish how emotions are related to our feelings or moods. While the two are constantly mistaken for the same, feelings are the aftermath of the emotions we experience. For example, when we feel angry, the anger emotion must have been brewing inside.

You know growing up, I tell myself; my mind doesn’t have space for rubbish. This is the way I try to circumnavigate the negative feelings and sights in my life. By doing this, I filled my mind and subconscious with positive thoughts but also tried to feel the same way too. This is what it means to be in control of your emotions.

Then create an emotion journal. Journaling is a great way to monitor your life and if you are filled with negative emotions or prone to falling into one, a journal will help you keep track and pinpoint what emotions you experience more. It will also help you to control it better. Write out the intensity of the emotions in your journal. Be honest with yourself.

In situations where you find yourself loosing control of your emotions. Remember to think before you speak, it stops you from reacting on impulse. When you can calmly avert an escalation, you are gradually gaining control of your emotions. Try not to overthink or over-exaggerate the matter, it only makes things worse. Breathe in and do it slowly, you will feel your sense of reasoning coming back. You can practice some yoga moves or breathing exercises, this will help a lot.

Anger, jealousy, envy, frustration, hopelessness, fear, and many more emotions are negative and can lead us in two ways. It can lead us to the past to cause depression or worries about the future – sinking us deep into the pool of anxiety. Anxiousness may be the anticipation of things to come, but when it overtakes our sense of enjoying the present, it becomes a negative emotion, which would open the cankerworms to a host of negative emotions in our lives and leaves us drowning in despair and self-regret.

Rejection, failure, abandonment, neglect – aren’t these emotions we encounter daily or at some point in our lives. They are what make us stronger, resilient, and focused. These same emotions also captivate and enslave us delaying us from achieving our aims and goals in life. Living in fear is a brewing pot of trouble that if I may say, exists more in our minds than around us.

Have you realized that 90 percent of the time when you over worry about something, it never happens? Or it happens better than you thought. Isn’t that enough to tell you, let go and it will be okay. Fear is a survival strategy; it tends to the negative far too often than the positive. So why are you afraid? Keep this in mind. What will happen, will happen. Fear that has got you all wrapped up, isn’t going anywhere because you are worrying. It will increase and drive you crazy. It is time to stop being afraid.

Today I say to you, stop living in fear, stop being afraid, STOP IT. You must be saying, it is easier said than done, but no. Say it; I will not live in fear anymore. It should be a mantra, a chant, and a rosary. After all, following the law of attraction, you will attract what you believe. If you believe you are not good enough, you will feel worthless. The same goes for fear when you believe you can’t, you won’t. It is that simple.

People who live in fear give the most compelling excuses. They will say anything even when it doesn’t fit into their anxiety concept. Stop the excuses, excuses are walls that prevent us from facing, tackling, and solving our problems. Excuses are comfortable, cozy, and cowardice. I know we may be feeling we are safe with our excuses, but the truth is dwelling in excuses is never a safe landing.

How many times did you miss that interview because you thought you could not make it? Yet you reapplied. That courage you had to reapply for a job or position more than once, use it to knock down all excuses in your life.

Now kick the maybe, I-don’t-know, and skepticism away and take on the yes-I-can and must. You will feel better, not immediately but you will.

She smiled and said we cannot all determine what the problems are but if you feel negativity brewing in you, creating a counter-reaction to that feeling makes you feel good. Crying did it for her. It is absolutely amazing that adopting that mindset of shedding tears as if something is actually wrong changed the way she thought and stopped negative emotions. If you feel like running or jogging to clear your head, do it. If you feel like eating, do it healthily. If you feel like dancing, kick off your shoes, play your favorite playlist, and enjoy yourself. But, do it genuinely from your soul, let it connect with your inner mind. This way, you will feel the impact on your emotions.

When you are dealing with negative emotion, you are in an argument with your mind. If your thoughts are overpowering you, it means your voice is not being heard. It is time to make your voice heard. Tell your negative emotions it is time to let go. They no longer have a hold over your thoughts or you. Create that subconscious space that no negative emotions are allowed to come in. So when you feel yourself shifting to the negative, hurriedly move back and refocus your brain.

Fear and anxiety are the most attractive and comfortable space for us. It is easier to sulk than to work hard at not doing it. Now that you have expressed yourself via your voice, be dedicated, and don’t go back. Whatever you fear is, only determination and dedication can successfully pull you forward and help you to reprogram your mind. Surround yourself with positivity, even if nobody tells you, tell yourself.

The relationship between your thoughts and emotions is highly relative and dynamic.

The very entity of emotion is what makes us human, as we are born with the ability to feel empathy, rage, love, and happiness. That is the very essence of our consciousness. It can be said that emotions are the driving force in our lives. Living a life devoid of emotions is rather simply described as bland, without spice. As easy as it is to underestimate the importance of emotions in our lives, it is best to be attuned to the way they affect us. Emotions sometimes show up in our lives as an overwhelming force, current or energy. Now it is up to us to decide what to do with this overwhelming surge of power inside us. We can either decide to channel it productively or let it swerve about uncontrollably.

Our thoughts are a manifestation of the information our brain takes in, they are mental cognitions based on personal beliefs, ideas, and opinions. It is based on the perspective of the world around us. From this statement, you'll realize that our thoughts are relative to our environment. Most thoughts that are being processed in our brain aren’t a reflex action, but a deliberate action. This means that our thoughts can be controlled. At least the processing can be controlled in situations where the introduction can't, and these thoughts, in turn, affect our behaviors and reactions. This is known as the cognitive triangle.

Starting your day right is a key factor in determining how productive and accomplished you will feel throughout the day.

Your anxiety level is connected to how you view the start of your day; this is because anxiety is a function of our everyday experiences. It affects the way we define our life, work, and our attitude towards others. Creating a realistic morning routine can help lower your anxiety level.

You need to wake your body up by stretching when you wake up. Stretching parts of your body for a few minutes will only take you a few minutes. Try to stretch your legs, arms, neck, and body. It becomes necessary as you grow older and your body is no longer as healthy as it used to be. The few minutes you take to stretch your body will activate your body and prep you for the energetic activities for the day.

It is normal to wake up every morning to dread a new day, especially if you are not happy with what you do for a living. Having morning anxiety and fear comes when you wake up in the morning, and you are bombarded with worries about what the new day brings. People experience anxiety in different ways, and thankfulness would do a lot to help reduce the level of stress and fear that many people face.

Stop obsessing over how bad your life is; it is not healthy. Although there are times where we cannot help but be sad and negative about how life turned out to be, it will not do you any good if you obsess over things like that. Start by identifying the things in your life or the people in your life that you can be thankful for. Be grateful for your family and life! Start by appreciating the things you have that have been good so far. It doesn't have to be large, and you could start with the little things.

you need to totally remove that negative mindset, it gets draining and this shortens your lifespan.

Say nice things about yourself and when people find out that you love yourself a lot, they wouldn't treat you any less. You show people how you would like them to treat you. Your mind works with what you feed it.

The first step to overcoming fear is talking yourself out of it. I love the mirror in my bathroom so much, it has heard my biggest fears, I am scared that if I move out of this building, it would let my secrets out to the next house owner. Whenever life starts to get overwhelming, I go to my mirror, sometimes I drag a seat along with me, you would be surprised at the many things I do to get myself fixed, I am giving you all the inside secrets no one knows so you're lucky to have this book, trust me. When I drag my seat close to the mirror, I can hear my voice in a dramatic way and I start to list out my fears. This works all the time.

All I'm trying to say is that you need to be in control of your emotions. You need to be in control of your life generally. You don't overcome your fear by running away from it. If you do, it would keep haunting you and you will become restless until you tackle it. Fear makes us live through a situation, twice before it even happens. You are scared of what your new boss at the office would think about your promotion request? What if you see it this way, you decide to meet your boss and start a conversation about how he went about his promotion to get to the level he is, when he tells you, you chip into the conversation on how you also want a promotion.

Let me challenge you today; do something unusual. First, overcome your fear, navigate your mind to something positive, and do that thing that scares you as long as you don't hurt anyone along the line. Second, try one of my mood-boosting hacks, maybe. You can try meditation or take a walk, there's a lot more to life than the dark walls of your room

Positive people leave the past in the past. Nothing ruins one’s mood and snuffs the life out of your enthusiasm like getting reminded of one bad deal or a mistake that wrecked your progress. As unfortunate as every error is some people choose to stay blind to sensitivity and always find a way of reminding you of the other time you messed up.

Positive people never fail to express gratitude. You may have heard that gratitude unlocks doors to more blessings, right? One of the things that made Keysha loved by most of the students, despite her insecurities, was her unhidden attitude of gratefulness. Grateful people are known to exert positive energies, full of smiles, thankfulness, and love.

Positive people are sincere and optimistic. They are not known to spend time mourning their inabilities; rather, they feed their possibilities. They don’t believe that there is one perfect way out of every situation, they are open to new ideas and try new tactics. They are resilient and focused.

Positive people are not conservative with their smiles. Yes, they know how to smile at the world because they are optimistic. Have you ever wondered why some people’s smiles are so contagious? When there are so many positive...

Positive thinkers don’t necessarily argue to prove their point, they don’t manipulate too, they simply lead and it’s up to you to emulate. Positive people are not quick to assert their opinion on anyone but at the same time, they refuse to be tossed about with every opinion. They are consistent with their decision and explain them tactfully.

Build a wall of defense against people’s attitude and their opinion of you. For a fact, you can’t dictate what people will say or the opinion they hold about you but there’s something you can do to safeguard your peace. You can decide not to be affected by what anybody thinks of you or how they relate with you from afar. Remember, you are not the problem, they are. So, refuse to be manipulated by anyone, rather, rise. I educate them on how you wish to be treated.

One moment you are up and happy and the next sometimes without any fault of yours, you are down. When this reoccurs, it breeds a host of negative energies inside us, compelling us to assume we are no good and undeserving of anything good. This lie has affected us in many ways especially if we are unable to admit that it is hitting our very core and also when we are afraid of the opinion of people. We believe we will be rudely judged for our misfortunes, and when we allow the woulda, shoulda, coulda voices convict our soul, we recede to solitude.

So many people are victims of self-infliction, and the way out of this is the reprogramming of the mind, your mind must be overhauled, freed of all negatives and lies so you can live your life again.

Sometimes all we need is an avenue to vent, it doesn’t matter what we experienced, letting it out is the escape route from the claws of depression. I have often heard people argue that solitude is necessary, you know, the need to soothe the spirit; I don’t fault this but many introverts I know, become psychopathic in due time. So, I still recommend sharing your struggles and challenges with someone. Why? You may and always will be wrong in your assumptions and the situation that appears irredeemable can truly receive healing if someone else hears them.

To be direct, one of the best ways to practice self-care is by discovering what actually puts you in a great mood. When you do this, anytime you start feeling overwhelmed or boxed up, you can simply switch into that activity and you’d be good in no time.

For everything he did, he always expected it to go sideways. Not because he just didn’t fancy things going well but adopting a negative mindset was more like a coping mechanism which helped him deal with things better. It wasn’t easy but we found a way for him to break free from that manner of thinking and help him find genuine happiness. How was he able to turn his situation around?

Identify your source of anxiety and negative emotions. Without this step, everything you do would feel like a carousel because you might feel really good after a while but only to find yourself facing the same level of anxiety over again. Ask yourself, why do I feel so stressed out? Why do I feel like there’s a dark cloud hovering over my head and allowing me to feel so gloomy?

For those of us using negative emotions to be that safe heaven where we escape from the world, it is not a reliable zone. As a matter of fact, it is a drowning spot, and if you are not careful, you will lose the things and people that are dear to you. This book is a mental turnaround meant to overhaul your negative mind into a positive one. It is a guide to show you that you can change regardless of how deep you have sunk.

Find, subdue, and overcome, three very powerful words for anyone dealing with negative emotions. Mastering your thoughts also allows you not to mix things up. You feel sad because it is worth it, and ideal for the situation at hand.