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50 Home&Lifestyle Magazine | Summer 2016
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20 years professional experience.
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Have you had a breast reconstruction
after surgery or masectomy?
Are you feeling unconfident about some
things in your life? Do you find that you dwell
on what you perceive to be the negatives
in a situation rather than the positives? You
might even have found that over time these
tendencies have led to you having a lower
mood or feeling anxious or worried generally.
One of the reasons that we can all get caught
in thinking and feeling cycles like this is
negative self talk.
It’s important to realistically criticize
yourself and to encourage yourself to do
better at something but sometimes this
criticism becomes excessive and it leaves us
focused on seeing failures or shortcomings in
our ability to achieve something. Fortunately
these patterns are really nothing more then
a habit of thinking and there are some things
that you can do very easily to manage them.
First of all, don’t try to be perfect! We
all have imperfections and we all have
times where we wish we had said or done
something differently. Don’t set your
standards for yourself so high that you can
never reach them!
It can be useful to rephrase your negative
thought more positively and with more
determination. For example, instead of saying
to yourself over and over “I’ll never be able to
lose weight and get fit. I’m hopeless”. Say to
yourself “Everyone has to start somewhere.
I’m making small steps but small steps are
better than no steps”. I sometimes encourage
my own clients to set aside a particular time
in the day to think or worry about something
that’s on their mind. It only needs to be short
– 10 minutes to write down what’s in your
mind at that time and then come back to it
the next day and write more positive ideas
that challenge the negative ones.
One of the most effective ways to interrupt
this type of thinking is to reach out to a
trusted friend – call someone and ask them
to give you a realistic viewpoint about your
situation. Social support from trusted friends
and family is a great defence against spirals
of negative thinking.
If you feel like your negative thinking has
got to a point where you’re having trouble
controlling it or it’s having a significant
impact on your mood, reach out to your GP
to discuss the situation and talk about the
ways in which a Psychologist may be able to
help you.
One last thought – make a habit for
yourself of thinking positively. You only need
to do it for 2 to 3 minutes a day. Write your
positive thoughts down so that you can read
them to yourself. Repetition helps - two to
three minutes a day, every day of the week,
is much better than 20 minutes once a week!
Challenging Negative Self-Talk
By Simon Matthews - Solutions 4 Life