How to Remove Negative Thoughts from Subconscious Mind

The recurrent negative thoughts are kind of habits.

We have to understand the death of a habit.

What happens after a habit dies?

The recurrent thoughts, thought-flow, and thought processes are simply habits at a mental level.

All habits have a subconscious root.

Now, positive thought structures are good; just like any positive habit is good.

The problem is with the negative thoughts and habits.

Breaking any habit is super hard. Those of the subtler kinds, at the subconscious thought-habit level, are even tougher to change and reform.

In this article, we will try to get an overview of the complete process of how removing negative thoughts from the subconscious mind looks like.

Measure the Negativity with Feelings

The first step on the way to removing negative thoughts from the subconscious mind is the ability to discern what is negative and to what extent the negative thought-habit structures need to be removed from your subconscious mind.

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There are thoughts that can seem negative, but are necessary for your survival and sometimes well-being. Such as, a bit of anxious and worrying thoughts at the age of thirteen and the month before an exam can be termed as a healthy amount of negative thought that is elemental for you being serious about your studies and life. A healthy amount of seriousness, certainly.

So, how can you tell which negative thoughts need to be removed?

The measuring tape for negativity is feeling – the kind and intensity of the feelings associated with the thoughts.

In the above example of a 13-year-old boy worrying about his exams. How is that feeling? We have to discern the kind and intensity of that feeling: the colors and the hues associated with that feeling of worry and anxiety.

That worry is somewhat akin to excitement for a good result, a determination to do well in the exam, an overall anticipation of a better future, a prosperous future, and the fear of what will happen if that good result doesn’t happen.

Such similar worry stemming from excitement and determination to do good can be seen throughout one’s life, such as a job interview, the night before a promotion, etc.

So, these negative thought patterns are universal, and mostly good and necessary.

However, in certain individuals, these normal and healthy levels of anxiety can very well cross the limits of being healthy and plunge into the realm of subconscious negative thoughts that need to be removed.

For some, these same high-stakes-like events can get connected with some other thought processes that can be damaging.

For example, if any thought or a possibility of becoming prosperous in the future surfaces from trauma response and thought processes associated with it, that can become another complicated and larger cloud of thought habits that needs to be removed or healed.

At the ideal stage, an ideal human specimen would simply feel blissful excitement and sweet passion of determination while faced with any possibility of excelling his present conditions, be it through exams or promotions.

However, for most of us, this is not the case. There’s always that aspect of fear associated with such feelings and emotions. Another crucial element is the guilt factor.

Guilt and fear form the basement of all subconscious negative thoughts.

They are the brick, cement, and the sand.

Probe Guilt and Fear to Find the Roots of Negativity

Examine your guilt and fear, you will soon find a gateway into the roots of your subconscious negative thoughts.

Discerning all these subtler colors of feelings and emotions may not always be easy. More so in the subconscious level, where all the thoughts seem to emerge out of nowhere.

That’s why it’s important to build another habit – the habit of monitoring the chain of thoughts. Of course, you can’t be all day being your own thought police.

Simply set some time during your meditation to examine your thoughts and pay attention to the flow and the chain of one thought leading to another.

Soon, you will see the emergence of all the recurring thoughts that usually torment you in your life.

Identify Your Major Negative Thought-Clouds

There are some major clouds of negative-thought processes and some other minor clouds usually surrounding the major ones.

For individuals, the major clouds are likely to be related to self-esteem, guilt, and fear.

For the global citizens, the major clouds would be world hunger, climate change, the conflict of religions and states that has been going on for ages, like the one involving the Middle East. But even all these are related to guilt, fear, and self-esteem as a human being.

The first task is to find out those major dark clouds of thoughts that have been the most recurrent and have been the most tormenting throughout your life.

Uncovering those won’t be much of a difficulty with a few days of sincere monitoring meditation.

For most of us, we already know what those clouds are, but we simply don’t know how to get rid of those thoughts.

The key here is dissecting the negative thought clouds, and invariably you will see the elements of fear and guilt that are the source of those thoughts.

Something that you fear and something that you feel guilty about. That thing can be both from the future and the past. Mostly, fear usually involves the future, and guilt involves past events.

Along these lines, if you keep probing your recurrent subconscious negative thoughts, you will soon reach your major fears and guilts.

From there starts the final process and the most important one – dealing with fear and guilt.

These emotions related to fear and guilt are so deeply rooted into our subconscious that getting rid of them is likely to require a bit of superhuman mental strength.

However, what we can do at all stages of mental growth and evolution is try to keep them under control and at manageable levels.

Then, gradually try to make them as transparent and readily perceivable to us as possible. Soon, they will start to fade away.

So, the steps to removing negative thoughts from the subconscious mind are:

Meditate on your thought flow, chains, and patterns.

Identify the major thought clouds that have predominantly negative feelings for you.

Find out the root guilt or fear within the heart of those negative thought clouds.

Keep working with yourself to make those fears and guilts manageable.

Realize that guilt and fear, although having a revolutionary act to play, are mostly damaging your quality of life and holding you back.

Once, those guilt and fear start to fade or start to weigh less heavily on you, the thought currents will also start to subside from your subconscious.

Also, be mindful that fear and guilt have a very close affiliation with sex.

That’s a whole new, different, and exciting arena to dive into oneself and the subconscious. But it’s a discussion that transcends the limits of this blog.

Maybe someday, soon, the Growth Conscious will publish a book on the topic to get much deeper into the subject.