Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

STARVE YOUR NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
Your negative emotions have all been learned, beginning in child-
hood. And what has been learned can be 
unlearned
, sometimes
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quite quickly.You can learn any habit or skill that you consider to be
either desirable or necessary. Especially, you can learn positive, con-
structive ways of thinking about people, money, health, and other
factors to cancel out negative ideas that limit your potential and in-
terfere with your success.
Many negative ideas or attitudes are based on false premises.
Sometimes a negative idea about a subject, or a negative attitude
toward a person, can be completely reversed with a single piece 
of new information. You could suddenly learn that an idea you
had about yourself or another person was not true. As a result,
you could change your thinking in an instant. Be open to this
possibility.
Negative emotions exist only because we give them life and
then keep them alive. We feed them by continually thinking and
talking about things that make us angry or unhappy. Fortunately,
you can change this situation by applying the Law of Emotion.
This law states,
“A stronger emotion will dominate and override a
weaker emotion, and whichever emotion you concentrate on grows and
becomes stronger.”
What this means is that whatever emotion you 
dwell upon
grows
and eventually dominates your thinking in that area. If you with-
draw your mental energy from a person or situation that makes you
sad or angry by refusing to think about it, the emotion connected
with that situation eventually dies away. Like a fire with no fuel, it
goes out.
You have experienced this many times already. For example, as
we grow up, we have relationships with the opposite sex. Most of
them do not work out over time. When they end, we are often emo-
tionally distressed and hurt. We are often sad, angry, depressed, pre-
occupied, and unhappy. These feelings last for a certain period.
Then we recover. We meet someone else. Gradually we forget about
the unhappy ending of the earlier relationship. Months or years
later, we look back or even meet the other person, and we cannot
imagine how emotionally involved we were with him or her. Be-
cause we did not feed them, the feelings have died away completely.
This is an example of the laws of substitution and emotion in action
in your own life.