Tune out the Negative Voices!

I saw an old friend of mine today after a business meeting in a local coffee shop. As I stopped to talk with him I quickly learned he was majorly depressed. His life wasn't turning out the way he thought it should. His finances, his career, his relationships, his family, and his health were all unbalanced. Throughout the conversation he would say "I'm just not sure what I'm doing, where I'm going. I feel like a loser"

Ever felt that way?

I went on to tell him that I thought he was being bombarded by the negative voices inside his head and that the only way to turn things around was to TUNE OUT THE NEGATIVE VOICES.

We are constantly being bombarded with negative words, thoughts and images. (Especially as of late with the national election around the corner.) The television, radio, news print, all seem to emit a negative vibe and the only way to curb it is through TURNING those media outlets off, or casting them to the side and replacing them with positive and motivational books, CD's, and Video's. Our minds are fragile places and it seems that whatever we allow inside blossoms into something much, much, bigger on the way out!

Take a single word for example. What could a single negative word do? Well, the English Language has somewhere near 750,000 words. This constitutes the most words in any given language with German running a distance 2nd place with half as many words.

What's so fascinating about this?

The average person's vocabulary consists of between 2,000 and 10,000 KNOWN words. That means we regularly use only 1/2 of 1 percent of the language! Out of this figure only 3,000 words are related to human emotion, and out of those emotional words only 1,051 of them describe a positive emotion. That means 2,086 (over half) describe negative emotions.

We are naturally bombarded within our own culture with a vocabulary that includes twice as many negative emotional words than positive words. So, it only makes sense that when we turn on the television, open the next day newspaper, flip on the radio, that our own senses will be attacked by these SAME negative words of influence. That SINGLE negative word....could be self-destructing. Thus, it's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

Advice: Tune out the negative and replace it with something positive. Go on a mental fast and cut out the destructive static in the back ground that is sabotaging your dreams and your life!! Do it today and reap the benefits!!