Self-Care With Shaki

Negative thinking creates an unfair environment. It contributes to depression, anxiety, and other mental and physical health issues. Our thoughts are very subtle and unconscious most of the time yet it has an extreme power to control our whole life. Since our thoughts make and break us, it is important to understand and learn how to think in the right way to be happy and peaceful in life. Below are the 5 tips that you can inculcate to change your negative thought pattern: 1. Identifying your thinking pattern The first step to change your negative thinking is to identify your thinking pattern. For example, if you tend to view yourself as a total failure because of failing in one single interview then you are "overgeneralizing" yourself. Or, if you are someone who thinks that 'Success only lies in perfection. And the rest is considered as a failure' then you are thinking in terms of "black and white". In the same way, there are many t...

Words hold profound power. Especially the words we say to ourselves. Self-talk is the process of talking to ourselves and how we talk to ourselves decide the direction of our life. It will decide if our life is positive and active or negative and dull. According to my experiences, I would say that it really depends on how much importance you give to yourself. If you are important to you then you will never let yourself down with all those negative self-talk. Basically, there are two ways you talk to yourself - negative and positive. Negative self-talk is where you put yourself down and don’t respect your feelings. Positive self-talk is is where you accept yourselves and decide to be there for you. The common misunderstanding of self-talk is that you need to be positive even when you are sad. Please don’t do that. Do not ignore the negative. You have to just accept the negative. Let me clear you with an example Let's say that you are feeling insecure about yo...

Our mind is a mystic. As much as there is a positive side for it, it also has a negative side. First, let me tell you a story of Tutu and kuttu, the twin dogs which belongs to a village in India. Even though these dogs are twins, they both differ so much in their characteristics. Tutu safeguards the village, it never allows any other dog to enter into the village, it loves everyone in the village and is kind whereas kuttu is arrogant, it bites all the kids that are playing and always barks unnecessarily. These villagers loved tutu and hated kuttu. They also started feeding tutu more and taking care of it as if their own pet. On the other side, kuttu was fed very less and was not given any importance. As a result of this, the kind tutu started being more favorable to its caretakers and kuttu became very week to even bark. We all have tutu and kuttu within us. It all depends on who we feed the most. If you feed the positive personality more, you will a positive person with all t...