How To Achieve Positive Thinking | My Journey

If you've been following my blog for a while now you will know that I can worry a lot and sometimes just think really negatively about myself and things going on around me. One of my goals for the new year (2014) is to be more positive about myself! I am really trying to battle my Anxiety and throughout the last few months I have found some things that have helped me. I have tried reading self help books, hypnotism and battling my fears as much as I can, does it work? well kinda..

I started trying out reading self help books over a year ago. The 3 I have read are "Overcoming Low Self Esteem", Teach Yourself To Meditate" and "21 days to a new you". Now the bonus word in that sentence is TRIED, I haven't finished one of the books, I get bored. But there is some things that all 3 books have in common with helping my "issue". Positivity. Some days I find it really hard to be positive, sometimes it's really easy. It all depends on what's happened during the day and how I feel. Some advisable techniques I have gained from the books are; to breath, practice what you want to do well, don't avoid things you want to do, predicting what's going to happen isn't fact - it's opinion. Whenever I have sat down and read a few pages from any of these books I instantly have a positive vibe, I don't know how to explain it! I defo recommend these books to anyone. I bought the meditation book to help me relax, and I think the techniques are amazing if I actually bothered to practice them.  whoops.

I tried to self hypnotize almost 2 years ago (oo the way I worded it made it sound bad) . I was going through one of the worst phases of my life, and I didn't even know why. I've always been a happy person in general, but I didn't feel myself, I didn't enjoy doing the things I used to. I literally googled self hypnosis, and started downloading free tracks. They didn't do anything except make me fall asleep. I then looked on Amazon, and bought two of Paul Mckenna's books as I hear so much about him. The books came with a CD to go hand in hand with eachother, using CBT therapy. The main book I bought was called "how to be confident" now this is really cringey for me to admit on here, I bought it because I had just gone into my shell and had no confidence anymore and no one even knew. Now for me it didn't work and again the CD just helped me to fall asleep, it may have helped some of my anxiety for a week or so, but I felt it actually making me worse. Just to point out because it didn't work for me, it doesn't mean it wont work for someone else. The reason I bought Paul Mckenna was because of all the amazing reviews from people it helped.

I also googled "self help for Anxiety" and found some pretty interesting websites. There is one I want to emphasize about called "MoodGym" This is FREE and let me tell you the idea behind it is brilliant. It uses CBT techniques to help people that suffer with low confidence, self esteem, depression or anxiety. It's like a workbook you log into every couple of days. You can go straight to the website now by CLICKING HERE. You don't even have to "suffer" from the things listed above, it is just a great way to boost your positive thinking.

Since I have tried these techniques I have became myself again. I started this blog around May last year, and thankfully I've never felt as bad as I did in the Summer 2012. Whenever I do have a down day I normally express it over my blog, and let me tell you ranting about my problems on here really does help! Writing down any negative thoughts seems to take it out of your head and on the computer screen. A little better place in my mind ;) If you don't have a blog, or don't want to write about things like that on your blog then write it down in a notebook that no one will ever find.

If that isn't enough little tips for battling those negative demons then I have some others below;

• Surround yourself with positive people, other positive people make more people positive
• Sounds silly, but think/write about the things you should be happy about eg. Having a loving family
• Look at your life from an outside perspective
• Think of something to be excited about. For me it's to carry on blogging and seeing what opportunities arise from it. 

Do you have any other ways to achieve positive thinking? xx

Love Laura xx