![]() ![]() If you incorrectly assume that something you experience ‘really is negative’, then you will never consider exploring whether your own automatic assessments may not be correct. And sometimes, our automatic interpretations – particularly our automatic negative ones – can be way off the mark. Negativity is always a product of human interpretation. This is why it’s so very important to know and continually remind yourself that nothing ‘negative’ ever happens in life. Someone senselessly kills another person and we judge this to be bad or wrong. Certain outcomes stem either directly or indirectly from our actions, and we then judge these outcomes to be favorable or unfavorable Situations occur in each of our lives, and we assess them to be either positive or negative Events happen in life and then we judge them to be either good or bad The truth of the matter is more like this: This is true for even the most severely ‘negative’ events we can imagine, such as natural disasters, genocide, senseless individual murders of innocent people, etc. The truth is that things just keep on happening in life, and then we human beings either consciously or unconsciously add our interpretations to whatever happens. There are no negative events in life, no negative situations, no negative outcomes, no negative people, no negative emotions, etc. In a deeply philosophical (and truthful) way, nothing negative ever truly happens in life. Well, if it doesn’t come from life…it has to come from us! And in fact, it always does. So, if there is no negativity in the box called life, where does negativity truly come from? WHERE NEGATIVE THINKING REALLY COMES FROM Our thoughts about how to have successful relationships. Our thoughts about our own value, worth, and lovability. Our theories that underlie our behaviors. Our thoughts that automatically generate our emotions. Our automatic ways of perceiving events in life. Our expectations about ourselves, about others, about life, etc. This goes for automatic thought processes such as: All types of automatic, conditioned thinking are likely to be wrong much of the time. So it’s not just negative thinking, or even positive thinking that is commonly flawed. ![]() Thus, their automatic body tendencies can be just as flawed and just as inaccurate as our automatic negative thinking can be. Sometimes, you won’t be able to do this (meaning your negative thoughts may be just fine), but much of the time, you will be able to see through any weaknesses in your initial, automatic negative ideas.Īs we’ve just seen, people who’ve gone through life and have bodies conditioned to think very positively tend to ignore risks, dangers, and other legitimate negative aspects of life. This should be your impetus for always trying to challenge and disprove any negative thoughts you might have. Thus, you should always treat your automatic, negative thinking as potentially flawed. It’s just to point out that the odds are very much in favor that most of our negative thoughts are going to be incomplete, incorrect, or otherwise unrealistic. This is not to say that negative thinking doesn’t have any value, or that it is always faulty or wrong. If you understand this key principle that negatives don’t come in the box called life, you should always be suspicious anytime you are thinking negatively. MOST NEGATIVE THINKING IS FAULTY THINKING Negatives only arise from human bodies and from human language. You will also find many events (or potential events) in the box.īut what you won’t find in ‘the box called life’ is any negatives. And you will find human language in the box. In the category of living things, you will find plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and human beings. For example, in ‘the box called life’, you will find lots of living things and lots of non-living things. There are certain things that come in the ‘box’ called ‘life’ and other things that don’t. Well, in many ways this same analogy can be applied to life. This list contains all the components that should be included in the box, and by inference, if something is not on the list, it’s not in the box. You know how when you buy something from a store, and it comes in a big box, there’s usually a list of all the contents inside of the box printed on the outside or on a separate sheet of paper located within the box. THERE ARE NO ‘NEGATIVES’ IN THE BOX CALLED ‘LIFE’ I now want to give you some pointers about how you can tell when your negative thinking is true and appropriate…and when it is not. There Are No “Negatives” in the Box Called Life by Doc Orman, M.D. ![]()
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