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Your mind and thoughts affect your perception and interpretation of reality. Choose to be the person who is actively, consciously thinking your thoughts.

Home » Positive Thinking » How to Control Your Thoughts and Be the Master of Your MindLast Updated on March 2, 2021Positive ThinkingHow to Control Your Thoughts and Be the Master of Your Mind<img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3c7b0be0cfa7d860ab63dbeb8878c0cb152aa96f9a79ee35a4a8a821422d0d90?s=50&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3c7b0be0cfa7d860ab63dbeb8878c0cb152aa96f9a79ee35a4a8a821422d0d90?s=100&r=g 2x' class=' avatar-50 photo gb-image-a53db42b' height='50' width='50' decoding='async'/>Written by Michele GoldsteinMichele is a Spiritual-Interfaith Minister, life counselor, teacher, writer, and gratitude-junkie. Share Pin it Tweet Share Email Your mind is the most powerful tool you have for the creation of good in your life, but if not used correctly, can also be the most destructive force in your life. To control your thoughts means to influence the way you live your life.Your mind, more specifically, your thoughts, affects your perception and therefore, your interpretation of reality. (And here’s Why Your Perception Is Your Reality)I have heard that the average person thinks around 70,000 thoughts a day. That’s a lot, especially if they are unproductive, self-abusive, and just a general waste of energy.You can let your thoughts run amok, but why would you? It is your mind, your thoughts; isn’t it time to take your power back? Isn’t it time to take control?Choose to be the person who is actively, consciously thinking your thoughts. Be someone who can control your thoughts—become the master of your mind.When you change your thoughts, you will change your feelings as well, and you will also eliminate the triggers that set off those feelings. Both of these outcomes provide you with a greater level of peace in your mind.I currently have a few thoughts that are not of my choosing or a response from my reprogramming. I am the master of my mind, so now my mind is quite peaceful. Yours can be too!Table of ContentsWho Is Thinking My Thoughts?How to Master Your MindThe Bottom LineMore About Mental StrengthWho Is Thinking My Thoughts? Before you can become the master of your mind, you must recognize that you are currently at the mercy of several unwanted “squatters” living in your mind, and they are in control of your thoughts.If you want to be the boss of them, you must know who they are and what their motivation is, and then you can take charge and evict them.Here are four of the “squatters” in your head that create unhealthy and unproductive thoughts.1. The Inner Critic This is your constant abuser who is often a conglomeration of:Other people’s words—many times your parentsThoughts you have created based on your own or other peoples’ expectationsComparing yourself to other people, including those in the mediaThe things you told yourself as a result of painful experiences such as betrayal and rejection. Your interpretation creates your self-doubt and self-blame, which are most likely undeserved in cases of rejection and betrayal. The Inner Critic is motivated by pain, low self-esteem, lack of self-acceptance, and lack of self-love.Why else would this person abuse you? And since this person is you—why else would you abuse yourself? Why would you let anyone treat you this badly? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lifehack for Goal Diggers (@lifehackorg)2. The Worrier This person lives in the future—in the world of “what ifs.”The Worrier is motivated by fear, which is often irrational and has no basis. Occasionally, this person is motivated by fear that what happened in the past will happen again.3. The Reactor or Troublemaker This is the one that triggers anger, frustration, and pain. These triggers stem from unhealed wounds of the past. Any experience that is even closely related to a past wound will set him off.This person can be set off by words or feelings and can even be set off by sounds and smells.The Reactor has no real motivation and has poor impulse control. He is run by past programming that no longer serves you—if it ever did.4. The Sleep Depriver This can be a combination of any number of different squatters including the inner planner, the rehasher, and the ruminator, along with the inner critic and the worrier.The Sleep Depriver’s motivation can be:As a reaction to silence, which he fights againstTaking care of the business you neglected during the daySelf-doubt, low self-esteem, insecurity, and generalized anxietyAs listed above for the inner critic and worrier How can you control these squatters?How to Master Your Mind You are the thinker and the observer of your thoughts. You can control your thoughts, but you must pay attention to them so you can identify “who” is running the show—this will determine which technique you will want to use.Begin each day with the intention of paying attention to your thoughts and catching yourself when you are thinking undesirable thoughts.There are two ways to control your thoughts:Technique A – Interrupt and replac...

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