Along the way, Lund has battled a lot of negative thinking about himself.

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The family practiced ways to better recognize their feelings and reduce negative thinking.

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"Usually a negative life event causes the insomnia, but catastrophizing, negative thinking and worrying make the insomnia become chronic, " says Sivertsen.

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By learning to correctly identify this kind of negative self-talk and thinking, it is possible to then refute the negative thinking.

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Even listening often to negative team members and partners will reinforce negative thinking and behavior, and turn your normally positive perspective toxic.

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The repetition of this exercise over time will eventually shift your default of negative thinking to one of increased self-confidence and positivity.

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By refuting the negative thinking over and over again, it will slowly diminish overtime and will be automatically replaced by more balanced and, in this case, positive thinking.

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In other words, negative thinking always works.

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Then it hit me: my exact thinking pattern, and all the hangups I had in regards to being a woman and a feminine businessperson, were the exact sort of negative thinking patterns that aided the oppression of women, as opposed to liberating us.

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Further, the leadership of the company ignores the negative comments thinking everything will simply blow over.

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It has been suggested in previous studies that there could be a link between impaired lung function and a negative effect on the thinking processes, but it is not clear what the mechanism for that might be.

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Quickly, you will find yourself thinking less about the negative consequences associated with risk as your entrepreneurial attitude grows in confidence.

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In thinking London it is increasingly negative.

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The thinking has been that higher oil prices would eventually have a negative impact on the global economy.

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