Ants automatic negative thoughts pdf5/10/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() How do they show up and what can you learn from them? Imagine stepping into their shoes and seeing the world through their eyes. Think of someone you know that can do it, does it or is a great example of it. What can you learn or discover? How can you make this a positive instead? Shift the context. What positives can you take from the situation? Look at it from a different perspective. What can you see, hear and feel right now? There is no point worrying about your past or the future. By shifting your thinking you will start to notice more positives than negatives. Think about all the things that you are grateful for. Be supportive, encouraging and appreciative of all you are. Treat yourself how you would a loved one or friend. Give yourself a dose of love and kindness. What do you want to achieve? How would you like it to be instead? What can you do to solve it? Chalk it up as experience.įlip your focus away from the problem and towards the solution. Look at how far you have come and know that talent isn’t fixed. I accept and trust myself and believe that I can do it!”īelieve in your ability to learn, grow and improve. What do you need to hear to feel your best? Focus on how you want to feel. Say positive affirmations to yourself that empower and encourage you. This will give you a positive to build upon. Start with something you can already do well – even if it’s small. Shift your attention to focus on what you are good at. It will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Once you know your ANTs, you can turn them into PETs. It just means that out of your thousands of thoughts, you are focusing on the unhelpful ones rather than on the great! “They don’t think I’m good enough.” “They obviously don’t like me” Or why they are doing something, without having enough information. “I know he’ll say no.” “I bet no one will be interested in this.”īelieving you know what someone else is thinking. Thinking you know what will happen in the future- and of course, it will be bad. You make a tiny mark on your car and think it’s ruined. Making a really big deal out of something small, or making something unimportant seem like the worst thing ever. You score two goals, but all you can think about is the one you missed. You get one answer wrong on a test, and all you can think about is the mistake. You pay more attention to bad things and ignore when something good happens. “I should always be happy.” “I should never be down.” “I feel like I’m terrible at learning, so I must be terrible.”īelieving things have to be a certain way. Something doesn’t work, you think it’s entirely down to you.īelieving that if you feel something, it must be true. Or I’m finished.”īlaming yourself for anything that goes wrong around you, even if you had nothing to do with it. “I better nail 10k views on this blog in the first week. Thinking that you must be perfect in everything you do, otherwise, you’re no good. Having a negative belief about yourself and thinking it applies to everything you do. You can then start to challenge them by changing them into PETs instead. Start by tracking your ANTS and noticing when they happen. It all starts with some awareness- for big kids too. The great thing is that ANTs – automatic negative thoughts can easily be changed into PETs – positive empowering thoughts. These are called automatic thoughts and are often negative and irrational ANTs. Sometimes our thoughts happen so quickly that we don’t even notice them, but they can still affect how we show up. Positive thoughts lead to us feeling good and negative thoughts drag us down. They control how we feel about ourselves and the world around us. I often start with their ANTs, because I have yet to meet someone that doesn’t find their picnic being highjacked every now and again. I like to open their eyes to what is really going on for them and show them how they can get their brain working in the right way. When I’m coaching kids I like to keep things simple and memorable. ![]()
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