That gnawing feeling of impending doom

Have you woken up this morning with that feeling of impending doom? That horrid feeling that things aren’t going to work out as they should, and that you’re going to end up a cropper before the day is out?

This is a consequence of negative thinking whereby we believe our own lies about ourselves. It can destroy each day and mar the enjoyment of our newfound recoveries.

So how can we stop doing this?

The sad news is that nobody else is going to do it for us – not even God.

There was a gardener friend of mine once who was paid a visit by a government official. The government official marvelled at my friend’s garden. “Wow!” he said, “God’s been good to you giving you this beautiful garden!”
“You should have seen it when God was in charge of it” said my friend, “It was a jungle then!”

God, you see, won’t do for us what we can do for ourselves. Similarly with these negative thoughts – we ourselves have to train ourselves to develop a positive outlook on life.

So how do we do that? That’s your task for today – to suggest ways of combating these negative thoughts.

I’ll start you off: how about making a gratitude list of things we can be grateful for? That, surely, is one way to get us into a better, more positive frame of mind.

Over to you…………any other suggestions?