Negative thinking is a habit of the mind. In fact, thinking negatively is easy to do. Take a moment and count the amount of times you were at an audition or performance and received negative feedback. You can probably count the negatives on one or both of your hands. Now, take a moment and try to remember all the positive feedback you’ve gotten. You can’t think of as many, can you?
For some reason, our brains love to remember all the time the negative feedback validates our negative thoughts. It’s just more fun and dramatic then all those times that people have told us how great we are.
Usually these thoughts love to show up when we are about to go after something we really want. In the waiting room of an audition, right before the curtain rises—you start to hear those thoughts coming in like a wildfire holding you back.
Quite often, our response is to suppress these positive energy suckers. “Go away, I am too great! Leave me alone!” However, pushing away these thoughts only makes them stronger. Trying to ignore our negative thoughts or push them away only makes them backfire.
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