THOUGHTS THAT HEAL
It’s not easy to change a strong negative feeling like that once it has begun. But it would have been extremely easy to slide that first thought off your mind when you began comparing yourself with someone else and to replace it with a scene of a beautiful beach. In the process, you could have prevented the unpleasant feeling of envy and continued to feel calm and relaxed.
You must never forget that, at any time, you can personally choose to feel any way you want to feel by placing an appropriate thought on your inner movie screen. Granted, you may have to slide an unwanted thought out of your mind half a dozen times in a row. But by doing so, the mind soon gets the message that negative thoughts are unwelcome. Within a short while, you will find yourselves free of the unwanted thought. And you will also find yourselves free of the headache that the unwanted thought might have triggered.
Learning to control our thoughts isn’t really as difficult as most of us believe. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and other university medical schools have completely reversed tens of thousands of cases of severe depression by teaching patients to think positively. Called cognitive therapy, this method is based on the discovery that many cases of depression are caused not by some complex biological process deep within the body or by the subconscious mind, but by ten easily-recognizable ways in which we distort our thinking by using a negative approach.
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