Jack Canfield explains how negative thoughts create physical energy that affects your body and life. He cites Einstein and psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, then walks through a three-day exercise: track your negative thoughts, challenge them, and write the opposite belief to replace them.
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Hi there, I'm Jack Canfield. Today I want to give you a few tips to help you learn about how to clear up negative energy and why it's so important. Today, scientists know that everything found in the universe is made up of energy. This goes for both physical and non physical objects. Of course. Basic physics and chemistry tells us that a physical object, such as a building, a tree, or a book, is made up of billions of individual atoms, like energy bundles that interact and bond with other atoms into many forms, including water, metal, plants, soil, plastic, wood pulp, and other raw materials used to manufacture physical objects. Non physical things, including thoughts, are also made up of energy and can also bond and interact with aspects and objects of our physical world. It's well known, for instance, that our brain waves are a form of intense energy that can be easily detected with standard medical equipment and that can interact with our physical world as any other form of energy would. Now, perhaps you're wondering, what do I mean by interact with our physical world? Have you ever thought about a distant friend only to get a phone call from them a minute later? Have you ever driven down a highway wondering whether you'll get a speeding ticket or only to see flashing red lights in your rearview mirror a second later? That's your brain waves interacting with your physical reality. Luckily, it's also possible to use your thoughts to intentionally create the positive results you want in your life. Now, if you've ever desired something intensely for months, only to suddenly receive it through some serendipitous means or step into a situation where it was provided to you, that was also your thoughts and your intention and your desire impacting your experience. You see, the world as we've created. It is a process of our thinking, and it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. The great physicist Albert Einstein studied this phenomenon in 1935 when he experimented with quantum physics. The idea that energetically activating a particle on one side of the universe created an instantaneous response in a partner particle elsewhere in the universe. Columbia University professor Brian Greene explains it this way. According to quantum theory and the many experiments that bear out its predictions, the quantum connection between two particles can persist even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. In other words, something that happens over here can be entwined with something that happens over there. A number of other documented experiments have also proven that thoughts can rapidly travel through space and and either be picked up by others or have an effect on physical matter. We also know from polygraph or lie detector tests that your body reacts to your thoughts, changing your temperature heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and how much your hands sweat. When you're hooked up to a lie detector and are asked a question such as did you take the money? Your hands will get colder, your heart will beat faster, your blood blood pressure will go up, your breathing will get faster, your muscles might get tighter and your hands might sweat if you did take the money and you lie about it. Now these kinds of physiological changes occur not only when you're lying, but also in reaction to every single thought you think. Every cell in your body is affected by every thought you have now. Negative thoughts affect your body negatively, weakening you, making you sweat and making you uptight. Positive thoughts affect your body in a positive way, making you more relaxed, more centered, more open and alert. Positive thoughts cause the secretion of endorphins in the brain and reduce pain and increase pleasure. Psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen has named the limiting thoughts we hear in our head ants. Automatic negative thoughts. And just like real ants at a picnic, your ants can ruin your experience of life. Dr. Amen recommends that you learn to stomp the ants. First you have to become aware of them. Next you have to shake them off and stomp them by challenging them. And finally you have to replace them with more positive and affirming thoughts. The key to dealing with any kind of negative thinking is to realize that you're ultimately in charge of whether to listen to and agree with any thought or to not. Just because you think it or hear it doesn't mean it's true. You want to constantly ask yourself, is this thought helping me or is this thought hurting me? Is it getting me closer to where I want to go or is it taking me further away? Is it motivating me to action or is it blocking me with fear and self doubt? You have to learn to challenge and talk back to the thoughts that are not serving you in creating greater success and happiness. My friend Doug Bench recommends writing down every negative thought you think or say out loud and every negative thought you hear anyone else say for three whole days. Make sure that two of those days are work days and that one of those days is a weekend day. Now ask your spouse or your partner, your children, roommates, fellow employees to catch you whenever you have a negative thought and impose a dollar fine on you when they hear you uttering that negative thought. In a recent five day workshop I conducted, I had participants put $2 in a bowl every time they said anything that was blaming, justifying, self criticizing, or self negating. It was amazing to see how fast that bowl filled up. However, as the five days went on, there were fewer and fewer automatic negative comments as everybody became much more aware and much more intentional. Now, what if you could learn to always talk to yourself like a winner instead of a loser? What if you could transform your negative self talk into positive self talk? What if you could silence your thoughts of lack and limitation and replace them with thoughts of abundance and unlimited possibility? What if you could replace any victim language in your thoughts with the language of empowerment? And what if you could transform your inner critic who judges your every move into a supportive inner coach who would encourage you to and give you confidence as you face new situations and risks? You see, the good news is that all of this is possible with a little awareness, focus and intention. Now, here's your homework to complete. After watching this video, I want you to write down every negative thought that you have for the next three days. The results may surprise you and as you become more aware of your negative comments and thoughts, you'll be able to clear your negative energy. Finally, I want you to answer this. What is your most common negative thought? Is it I can't. I'm not good enough. If I do that, I'll fail. It's not safe to say what I really think. It's too dangerous to stand up for what I believe. And then what I'd like you to do is think of what's the opposite thought that you could choose to think instead of that negative thought. So write down below in the comments the negative thoughts you most often think and what would be the opposite of that thought. So again, thanks for watching. And remember, nothing will change for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it, share it with a friend who may need it, and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one, and for some more additional resources on how to become a more positive person, make sure to visit my website@jackcampfield.com thanks again for watching.
