Do you ever feel your bad mood is just impossible to shake off? That it seems as if it has a grip on you and is out of your control? Positive thinking and affirmations are just not working to move past this bad mood?
Why is this? Why is it that sometime our moods are resistant to our positive thinking?
Well, there are two components to a mood. Firstly, there is your thinking, which includes your mental images and self-talk. Secondly, there is your physiology. By physiology, I do not just mean your posture, but your entire body. These two components feed each other, and each strengthens the other. It is like a back and forth relationship.This means that you have to change both your thinking and your physiology to get out of a bad mood
Why Does Positive Thinking Alone Sometimes Just Not Work?
I bet you have heard the saying that you just need to think positive thoughts to get out of a bad mood. Many of us who want to have a positive outlook and truly believe in the benefits of being positive are spending a lot of time and energy attempting to think positive thoughts as a way to manage our moods. So, we make sure that we imagine happy encounters, scenarios, outcomes and interactions. And then we say to ourselves: “cheer up, look on the bright side, there is always a lesson in everything”.
Now if a fairly strong negative mood has a grip on us and it has lasted days or even just hours, then this positive thinking and self-talk is just not going to have much of an impact. The reason is that the physiology of the mood is too powerful.
That is why, once we recognize that our positive thinking is not working, we often just give up. This allows the negative mood to just keep going.
However, when positive thinking alone is not working, it simply means that we are not going about it in the right way.
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Karen Spencer
Master Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and Coach, Master Time Line Therapy® Practitioner, Master Hypnotherapist
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