If your partner cheated on you, I'm sincerely sorry to hear that. I know oh so well how painful it can be to have your partner cheat on you. But often the most difficult thing is handling the haunting pictures that appear to endlessly play through your mind twenty four seven and make you feel horrid.
What can you do to stop this damaging thought process and regain control over your own mind?
Well, I'd like to share with you something that is surprisingly easy, but many individuals do not realize, and that's what is accountable for all negative feelings.
Whenever you feel a bad emotion (and I do mean any negative emotion), it is because you are focusing your thoughts on what you don't desire.
You see, when you concentrate your mind on what you do not want, you are imagining what you don't want and creating photos of it in your mind. This just reaffirms those haunting pictures of your spouse with another girl, as an example.
Even if you are attempting to avoid or push away the bad thoughts, you're still focusing on the negative outcomes (and thus only adding fuel to the fire). For example, if you decide that you want to avoid feeling hurt again, your mind must first imagine what it is like to be hurt so that you can avoid it.
This is how thinking about what you don't desire creates destructive feelings.
If you would like to stop this vicious cycle and end the feelings of pain and betrayal, you want to instead change your focus to what you do want.
Instead of avoiding agony and suffering, you almost certainly desire something like happiness, or a loving relationship. Start to ask what it'd be like to feel cheerful or to feel loved.
This causes your brain to start imagining all the details of what happiness and love would be like in your life.
This is how you take your focus off of the negative and put it on the positive.
First, you recognize that you are focusing on what you do not want.
Then you stop and ask, "Okay, if this is what I do not want, what do I want?"
Then you begin to concentrate on what you do desire.
This could be difficult initially, since the bad feelings you are experiencing have a kind of inertial of their own. But just like exercising a muscle, this may become less complicated with practice and you can start to irradicate the painful feelings and appalling thoughts that rush through your brain after your husband's affair.
You can begin to notice whether or not you are thinking about what you want or what you do not want, and when you happen to spot your mind on something you do not want, you can begin to intentionally change it to something that you do desire. With continued practice, you can start to move your life in a positive direction that will aid in building a foundation for contentment and love in the future.
What can you do to stop this damaging thought process and regain control over your own mind?
Well, I'd like to share with you something that is surprisingly easy, but many individuals do not realize, and that's what is accountable for all negative feelings.
Whenever you feel a bad emotion (and I do mean any negative emotion), it is because you are focusing your thoughts on what you don't desire.
You see, when you concentrate your mind on what you do not want, you are imagining what you don't want and creating photos of it in your mind. This just reaffirms those haunting pictures of your spouse with another girl, as an example.
Even if you are attempting to avoid or push away the bad thoughts, you're still focusing on the negative outcomes (and thus only adding fuel to the fire). For example, if you decide that you want to avoid feeling hurt again, your mind must first imagine what it is like to be hurt so that you can avoid it.
This is how thinking about what you don't desire creates destructive feelings.
If you would like to stop this vicious cycle and end the feelings of pain and betrayal, you want to instead change your focus to what you do want.
Instead of avoiding agony and suffering, you almost certainly desire something like happiness, or a loving relationship. Start to ask what it'd be like to feel cheerful or to feel loved.
This causes your brain to start imagining all the details of what happiness and love would be like in your life.
This is how you take your focus off of the negative and put it on the positive.
First, you recognize that you are focusing on what you do not want.
Then you stop and ask, "Okay, if this is what I do not want, what do I want?"
Then you begin to concentrate on what you do desire.
This could be difficult initially, since the bad feelings you are experiencing have a kind of inertial of their own. But just like exercising a muscle, this may become less complicated with practice and you can start to irradicate the painful feelings and appalling thoughts that rush through your brain after your husband's affair.
You can begin to notice whether or not you are thinking about what you want or what you do not want, and when you happen to spot your mind on something you do not want, you can begin to intentionally change it to something that you do desire. With continued practice, you can start to move your life in a positive direction that will aid in building a foundation for contentment and love in the future.
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