Today, over 1 in 4 people experience a mental health disorder in the UK1, whether this be due to personal, professional or financial pressures. At Purple House Clinic, we believe that learning to be the master of your mind can help you regulate your emotions, develop resilience and embrace new challenges – allowing you to gain a healthier perspective of your life and its challenges. Below are our top three ways on how you can manage your mindset.
- Your thoughts are not facts
Whilst discouraging thoughts and emotional setbacks are usual for everyone to experience, life experiences or traumatic events may lead a person to struggle with negative and overwhelming thoughts. Human beings are designed to avoid pain, so it is only natural that we would want to avoid upsetting thoughts and feelings. But, with people usually experiencing stressful or intrusive thoughts about things that are important to them2, these thoughts are usually hard to escape from.
The more you try to push them from your mind – however rational or irrational they may be – the more they persist. This is why it is essential to recognise you are doing this and to work on acknowledging them. In becoming aware of your thoughts, you can work on accepting them or reframing them, reminding yourself that your thoughts are not facts and helping yourself to rationalise your perspective on a situation. Not giving power to your upsetting thoughts and keeping the circumstances in perspective can help you manage your worries, and therefore your mindset.
