[Paul C]

This conversation is both uplifting and useful, always encouraging to see so many striving to undstand their own thoughts, and how they can make postive changes to them.

While reading I remembered a technquie that I read about many months ago that I found quite enjoyable, although I have forgotten the author.

Everytime you hear negative self-talk, take the negative thought and exaggerate it to dizzying heights (accompanied with a visual of yourself in your imagination). Soon enough the situation will become so absurd it will become funny! All logic behind the negative thought becomes questionable. It will go from being a realistic and reasonable thought to that of a scene from a bad soapy.

This may not be approriate for all degrees of negative thought though (or sitaution). But for your mundane negative thoughts, it can be effective.