You bring up a great point. I’ve thought about this long on hard before, what would it be like if instantly all the negative thoughts I had were changed into positive.

Instead of saying “this isn’t gonna work” saying “there is gotta be a way to make it work” or instead of saying “i stink at this”, saying “life is a learning experience and i’m making progress”.

What I ended up discovering was that it’s a really scary thought. Our negativity is a very safe comfort zone for us to stick in.

When we are negative we can come up with all the excuses to live a lame life and not pursue our real dreams and desires.

Why would we want to avoid our dreams and desires? Because usually they require us to get outside our comfort zone and that’s tough.

It actually took me a while to finally decide to build my blog on binge eating recovery because I always was too scared about publicly announcing my binge eating issues on the internet for anyone to see.

It was a stupid fear and now that I have done it, nothing bad came of it. In face many of my readers say they relate to what I’d consider my most embarrassing stories.

However before I was comfortable telling myself “no people wont find a blog on binge eating helpful” or “oh there are more than enough resources online and therapists and so on”, all the negative voices kept me lazy and comfortable.

Andrew Bolis
http://HowToStopEating.com