If you sleep 8 hours at night...
While you are awake 16 hours you could have a minimum of 6000 thoughts a day!
As many as 90% are circular, looping or repetitive...
Whenever those repetitive thoughts are 80% negative it has consequences. You might feel very overwhelmed, preoccupied and anxious.
Daily Thought Patterns
Let's do an experiment. Grab a pen and paper. Set a timer on your phone for 60 seconds. Mark a tally every time you have a thought. Add up all your thoughts. Now you have an estimate. If you do this enough times you can establish a baseline. For example, if you have ___ thoughts per minute... multiply that number by 60 minutes to determine thoughts per hour and then you can multiply that by the average number of hours a day you spend awake. This is how you get your daily thought count. Six per minute is on the low end of the spectrum while 40+ is on the high end of thoughts per minute (tpm).
| Thoughts | 5,760 |
|---|---|
| Repetitive | 5,184 |
| Negative | 4,147 |
| General | 576 |
| Thoughts | 16,320 |
|---|---|
| Repetitive | 14,688 |
| Negative | 11,750 |
| General | 1,632 |
| Thoughts | 38,400 |
|---|---|
| Repetitive | 34,650 |
| Negative | 27,648 |
| General | 3,750 |
What Happen if You Took Control of Your Thoughts?
Interpersonal
Set, communicate and enforce boundaries with others.
Intrapersonal
Release the negativity. Practice self-compassion.
Spiritual
Give yourself a break everyday. Exercise and meditate.
Be Optimistic
Being hopeful and confident about about the future.
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