October 4, 2016
Interview with Ora Nadrich, author of the book Says Who?
Mike Carruthers:
Of all the thoughts we think it’s the negative ones that seem to get our attention.
Ora Nadrich:
And they’re getting our attention for a reason. They’re trying to tell us something, they’re trying to tell us that they don’t make us feel good. And that they often times can make us feel really stressed and bad and even sick.
Ora Nadrich, author of the book Says Who?, believes a lot of these negative thoughts that we have aren’t even ours to begin with.
We’ve heard them said by somebody long ago and carried someone else’s thought, idea, or opinion of us into adulthood. So it’s important to recognize whether this is your original thought or not.
Standing back observing and questioning your negative thoughts can help you see them for what they are.
It’s pretty amazing how many thoughts we continue to host in our thinking mind that we don’t even like. So it’s important to be able to look at whether or not a thought is even appealing or desirable. And if it’s not why would you think a thought you don’t even like? And by asking yourself does this thought make you feel better or does it tear you down or diminish you – you can know the difference between the two.
Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones is hard but it is possible.
You don’t want to spend your whole life being so heavy – thinking about things that just make you feel so bad. You do have a say in it, it is your mind you are creating these thoughts – get creative with it.
