Studies have found that the average person has between 50,000 and 70,000 thoughts per day, with 80% of those being repetitive, and even up to 95% being the same as the previous day.
These are staggering figures because they show that, despite how powerful our minds can be, we aren’t making use of that power. It’s easier to follow a repetitive pattern rather than forge a new path of thinking.
In my workshops and coaching program, I help clients begin to recognise just how readily our minds automatically shift to negative thoughts – it’s just the way we’ve been brought up. We are brought up to always look for why something won’t work, what the problem is, what is reasonable, what is safe, etc.
So, even taking that lower figure of 50,000 thoughts and applying 80% being repetitive, that means that people have 40,000 thoughts a day, with most being negative. That’s got to have a profound impact on how people get to experience life.
Repetitive patterns of thinking, particularly if the thoughts are negative, will impact mood, focus and overall well-being in the same negative way, over and over again. Day after day.
But imagine what you mind could do if you could quiet that repetitive, incessant thinking.
As you know, simply telling someone to stop thinking so negatively, just doesn’t work. You need to go deeper, to another level of thinking that is hidden beneath those repetitive thought patterns.
Meditation is a great way to get that repetitive, incessant thinking quiet enough so that you can hear from the still, small voice that is always speaking to you but you can’t always hear. That’s the voice where your mind’s power is.
Tap into that, and you can start to shift those negative thought patterns. And then that is what will start to shift the results you get in life.
