The Thoughts in Your Head
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The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "The Thoughts in Your Head" and will show you how to stem the flow of untrained and unwanted thoughts and become a more positive and focused thinker.
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- 1. 1 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head THE THOUGHTS IN YOUR HEAD What’s on your mind? MTL: The Professional Development Programme
- 2. 2 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head Attribution: All images are from sources where a Creative Commons license exists for commercial use. All icons are on subscription from thenounproject. All clipart is from free sources. The MTL Professional Development Programme is copyright of Manage Train Learn. The Thoughts inYour Head Introduction: For much of the time our thoughts let us down. They are confused, disjointed and reactive. They don't have to be. Through training our thoughts to be positive, focused and assertive, we can at a stroke improve the quality of our thinking. In this topic, we’ll show you 7 ways we typically think.
- 3. 3 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 1. UNTRAINED THINKING When we treat the brain as an unknown quantity that we cannot manage, then we put ourselves at the mercy of whatever thoughts come into our head. These include some of the following: doubts, fears and catastrophising where one bad thought overshadows the rest; imagining the worst is going to happen; letting mistakes lead us to believe we're not good enough; worrying about the past and future; and the inability to concentrate and direct our thoughts at will. This is worse than I thought Flickr attribution: /photoloni/6321527653/
- 4. 4 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 2. THOUGHTS OF DOOM In an untrained person, doubts and fears can form a large part of what passes for thinking. Doubts and fears start small but can feed on themselves until they take over. It's what happens when having left home, the thought occurs that we left the gas or electric on: very soon all our thinking is swamped by this one fear of catastrophe. Doubts, fears, catastrophes are all in the mind Flickr attribution: /verityatthedisco/4193432039/
- 5. 5 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 3. DISTORTED THINKING Our thinking can be distorted in many different ways. Here are 3. First, we can think in habitual patterns where we respond to the same stimuli in the same ways without having choices. Second, our thoughts can be driven by compulsive, obsessive, and irrational beliefs, driven by what we ought to do or what we should do to please others. Third, our thoughts can be distorted by black-and-white thinking, the belief that everything that happens to us is either fully bad or fully good. When things are back to front Flickr attribution: /striatic/370027939/
- 6. 6 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 4. SELF- DEPRECATING It is estimated that up to 80% of us suffer from low self-esteem. The self-talk of our thoughts constantly tells us that we are not up to the mark. I'm not clever enough; I'm not rich enough; I'm not fit enough; I'm not qualified enough; I'm not lucky enough. Self-deprecating in this way creates a self-fulfilling cycle: we believe we're not as good as others, we therefore do nothing about it and, sure enough, others beat us to it thus proving what we believed all along. It’s a disaster! Flickr attribution: /kinshuksunil/5755896234/
- 7. 7 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 5. PRESENT MOMENT AWARENESS The best way to counter fearful thinking is to anchor our thinking in the present. Nagging thoughts about the past are wasted: we cannot change what's happened. Nagging thoughts about the future are equally wasted: we cannot be certain what the future will bring. Three questions we can usefully ask to focus in the present are: What am I thinking right now? What do I want for myself right now? What thoughts will help me achieve what I want right now? All thoughts stop when you're concentrating Flickr attribution: /vermazeren/5181573422/
- 8. 8 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 6. POSITIVE RE-FRAMING Studies into the effects of stress on the human body have demonstrated that the neurons in the hippocampus (a part of the brain responsible for new learning) can shrink. Brain cell connections have been known to permanently shrivel in response to negative thinking. On the other hand, love, affection, and happy moods can increase our ability to solve problems. The positive thinker's answer to: "Can you play the piano as well as Barenboim?" is not: "No, I can't," but: "Not yet." I can see this the way I want Flickr attribution: /h-k-d/3316550063/
- 9. 9 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head 7. EXPECTING THE BEST Most of us find it easy to worry, but we invariably worry about the worst that might happen to us. By changing our thought direction, we can replace worrying about the worst into worrying about the best. Worrying positively has the same characteristics as negative worrying: nagging thought patterns; visualising ourselves in the situation; playing and replaying every possible angle; hearing what we will say, feeling what we will feel, saying to ourselves what we will say. Believe that everything will be well Flickr attribution: /phalinn/8364020003/
- 10. 10 | MTL: The Professional Development Programme The Thoughts In Your Head This has been a Slide Topic from Manage Train Learn AFinal Word Writer Mark Twain once said that life does not mainly consist of facts and happenings but of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through our heads. Our thoughts determine what we see in the outside world and our reaction to it. But we don't have to think reactively and negatively to what life brings. We have total control over our thoughts. They are always what we want them to be.