The interesting thing is that if the thought is a good one, based on something positive, that it actually looks different in the brain than a negative thought does. The toxic thought, as I refer to them, will affect your entire body. They form a different type of chemical than a positive thought does. The toxic thought causes little thorns to grow

You have been conditioned over your lifetime to believe that thoughts are important and that you need to pay attention to them—especially the negative, pessimistic, self‑destructive, and worrisome ones.

“So whether your thoughts are true or not isn’t the issue here. The point is, if you let them push you around, that’s not helpful. So

Yet look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.

negative thinking represents a force in your consciousness that wants to displace anything healthy. It’s irrational—the thoughts seem real when you’re having them, but when you look back, they are almost always exaggerated or out of touch with reality.