Stinking Thinking

What is "stinking thinking?"

"Stinking thinking" is simply choosing to spend time with thoughts that cause you pain. To feed adverse inner-thoughts with your attention is to increase your inner pain. To keep feeding a thought after it has savagely attacked you is insane. Yet, some of us seem to be addicted to inner-pain until the pain becomes so great we wake up.

Adverse thoughts are like magnets attracting more adverse thoughts in the same way lions are attracted to the kill. Only in this case the "kill" is you.

Thought management is such a critical skill to develop. In fact, I wrote a song at the request of Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar on stinking thinking, as it was a popular topic for him, to which most canrelate. (See lyrics below)

How can I stop thinking adverse thoughts?

It's not the thought that comes into your mind that cause the problem. It's the thought you choose to believe. To stop feeding adverse thoughts is to stop giving them the food they need to survive and thrive - your attention. When your attention is no longer available to them, they will move on to a weaker victim to attack.

If/Then...Scenarios

"If it as all about cause and effect: Thoughts cause feelings, feelings cause behavior, and behaviors cause results...then it would be good to detect the thoughts that are not in harmony with the effects (results) I desire."
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"If it is true that an adverse feeling reveals an adverse thought (a lie I've cheated myself into believing)...then it would be good to make it my daily pursuit to use my feelings as a lie detector to detect and stop believing lies."
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"When you spot it, you got it. Until you do, it's got got you. When you spot the inner lie that is causing your grief, it will immediatly disappear to your great relief."
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"Only the inner lies you believe can adversely affect what you achieve."
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"Trust the feeling, not the thought. If the feeling is wrong, the thought is a lie."
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"The 'feel' will reveal when the thought is a lie."
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"The thoughts you choose to believe will determine what you achieve."
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"If you want to stop your self-brutality, start agreeing rather than arguing with Reality."
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STINKING THINKING

I was feeling bad, looking bad, had no dough.
I thought life had dealt me an awful blow,
and I complained to a buddy that I was all through.
He said, "You know it wasn't too long ago,
I was poorer than you, with less to show.
Then I got a tip, and I'd like to pass it on to you."

(Chorus)
He said, "Write down what you want.
Release those things that you don't,
and you'll get everything that stinking thinking kept from you.
So, I put wise thoughts in my mind.
I write 'em on paper 10 to 15 times,
and I repeat 'em out loud, and I look in the mirror while I do. Oh, I like that!
Yeah, stinking thinking, I'm letting you go.
Because of you I had nothing to show.
You've never done a blinking, stinking, positive thing for me.

Aw, that's way too simple, most people say.
There's got to be a harder, complicated way.
So, they make an unwise choice and refuse to try.
And when these folks complain to me, I ask, "Do you want to change?
If not, you see, spare me your stinking thinking and your misery! (Chorus)

(Add on to last chorus)
You've never done a blinking, stinking, cotton-picking, chicken-plucking,
itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, good for nothing, tater-shucking...
never done a blinking, stinking, positive thing for me!

Tony Brigmon Keynote Speaker and Emcee
Former Goodwill Ambassador for Southwest Airlines
Author and Singer of Feel Good Songs
Creator of Tony-isms (Pearls of Wisdom)
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