We have approximately 60,000 thoughts per day and if most of those are negative, it’s easy to see how it can have a big impact on your mental health and happiness. Your brain also has a negativity bias, which is why it’s so easy to feel flooded with negative thoughts.
The negativity bias is our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. From an evolutionary perspective this bias would have helped to remain safe because our ancestors would have needed to pay attention to negative threats in the world in order to survive.
As humans, we tend to:
* Remember traumatic experiences better than positive ones.
* Recall insults better than praise.
* React more strongly to negative stimuli.
* Think about negative things more frequently than positive ones.
* Respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones.
It’s exhausuting right?
Tapping is the perfect tool to stop your negative thoughts and rewire your mind to think differently. Try this 5 Min Tapping Meditation now to bring some positivity and stillness back into your mind.
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