how do you keep bad thoughts entering in your mind?

Bad thought, good thought, I let them all to come into my mind. So, now my mind becomes gray (a mix between bad and good thought).

Ooh this one is all me. I am the obsessive bad thinker. But I am learning. I am the type that when things are bad, I obsess on the probabilities and outcome of the bad. I have been redirecting my frame of thinking. I have started to remove as much negativity and negative people from life. So this was a major step for me. I wake up each day with a positive attitude although my current circumstance so totally remind me quickly on the really bad. So I do take sometime out between thoughts and pray for strength and positive thinking. I also lay at night with an exhausting bad thoughtful day and once again I pray that the next day be better.

I always have bad thoughts but I counter them by thinking of positive things, even the most trivial events that's going to happen the next day. I'll think of that and slowly I'll visualize about that happy event. You'll come to realize that, once you do this, there'll be no more bad thoughts.

Hi Crazy_Poster, I think it is impossible to keep bad thoughts from entering your mind. However, I do think that we can control, most of the time, anyway, how we handle those thoughts. If you are a rational and intelligent human being, then you weigh the outcome of taking action from bad thoughts. If a person is having bad thought about harming someone in anyway, they have the capacity to think these actions through and divert them to other thoughts. To help keep your mind free from these kinds of thought (bad) you can get involved in positive activities such as exercising, reading a good book,(the bible) taking a walk, etc.. Thoughts, good or bad, should not be allowed to rule or actions. Thought don't have consequences until they are put into action.

Sometimes we jsu can't help when bad thoughts may enter our minds. We don't ask them to. They just sort of creep in unexpectedly. If we try to live our lives in the most positive way possible, there is less room for bad thoughts to escape to.

'Reset' your bad 'memory'... 'install' good 'thinking'... 'upgrade' to better 'life'...

I don't think that there is a way that we are able to keep bad thoughts from entering our minds. However, it isn't so much about the thoughts that we have but rather the actions that we take by which we are judged. That said, I think that it is okay to have bad thoughts from time to time, but it isn't okay to have bad thoughts and to act on them all the time. I feel like acting on bad thoughts isn't acceptible.

Hi Crazy, very good discussion. I think life is about different stages. We leave our bad thoughts of each stage to find a good thought or bad thought of the next stage, this new thought becomes an obsession. :) I too dont think thinking bad is bad per se, except when it is done to such an extent that it can no longer be controlled.

When i feel any bad thought entering in my mind.. then i busy myself into any work.. this is a best way for me to avoid bad thoughts entering in my mind.. and sometimes i listen songs and also chit chat with friend.. when i feel these types of situations..

i welcome both thinking either positive or negative thoughts to myself.it is fine with me to think both ways.we can't just think one side and ignore the other as we could learn more when there are more than one option we could make.then understand and make analysis through it.it won't cost much time even if the word 'analysis' sounds complicated.

if i free and i have no work then bad thoughts are come in my mind it's naturally for this i keep my self busy. and if there is coming any bad thinking in my mind then i am trying to think positive. i have control on my mind happy my lot.

helo friend when i am entering in to bad things i used to remember about god and belief it will direct me to avoid bad things.

All is about your mind state. if you are thinking good than good will happen. if you think bad than bad will happen.