鍛鍊消除你的消極思想 Practice Ignoring Your Negative Thoughts
It has been estimated that the average human being has around 50,000 thoughts per day. That’s a lot of thoughts. Some of these thoughts are going to be positive and productive. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also going to be negative – angry, fearful, pessimistic, worrisome. Indeed, the important question in terms of becoming more peaceful isn’t whether or not you’re going to have negative thoughts – you are it’s what you choose to do with the ones that you have.
據估計人們平均每天擁有將近50000個想法。那是許多想法。這些想法中的一些將是積極的和有動力的。不幸的是，然而，它們中的許多也將是消極的——氣憤，害怕，悲觀，多慮。確實，就變得更加和平來說最重要的問題是你是否將會有消極的思想——你的問題是你會選擇做什麼在你擁有的東西中。In a practical sense, you really have only two options when it comes to dealing with negative thoughts. You can analyze your thoughts – ponder, think through, study, think some more – or you can learn to ignore them- dismiss, pay less attention to, not take so seriously. This later option, learning to take your negative thoughts less seriously, is infinitely more effective in terms of learning to be more peaceful.
就實際感覺，你真的只有兩種選擇當談論到處理消極思想時。你可以分析你的想法——仔細考慮，認真想清楚，考察研究，思考更多——或者你能夠學着無視它們，排除它們，給予更少的關注，不要把它們看的如此嚴重。這後一種選擇，學着把你的消極思想看的沒那麼嚴重就學着變得更加和平來說是無限地更加有效的。When you have a thought – any thought – that’s all it is, a thought! It can’t hurt you without your consent. For example, if you have a thought from your past, “I’m upset because my parents didn’t do a very good job,” you can get into it, as many do which will create inner turmoil for you. You can give the thought significance in your mind, and you’ll convince yourself that you should indeed be unhappy. Or, you can recognize that your mind is about to create a mental snowball, and you can choose to dismiss the thought. This doesn’t mean your childhood wasn’t difficult – it may very well have been – but in this present moment, you have a choice of which thoughts to pay attention to.
當你有一個想法——任何想法——那就是它的全部，一個想法！沒有你的允許它不能傷害你。例如，如果你擁有一個來自你過去的想法，“我悲傷因爲我的父母並沒有做一個非常好的工作”你能走進它，就像許多能激發內在的動力給你的東西。你可以在你的思想裏給予這個想法重要性，並且你將使你自己信服你應該確實不開心。不然，你能意識到你的思想將要創造出一個精神雪球，你能夠選擇丟棄這個想法。這並不意味着你的童年不艱難——它可能已經很好了——但在這個現在時刻，你可以選擇去關注哪個思想。
The same mental dynamic applies to thoughts of this morning, even five minutes ago. An argument that happened while you were walking out the door on your way to work is no longer an actual argument, it’s a thought in your mind. This dynamic also applies to future-oriented thoughts of this evening, next week, or ten years down the road. You’ll find, in all cases, that if you ignore or dismiss a negative thought that fills your mind, a more peaceful feeling is only a moment away. And, in a more peaceful state of mind, your wisdom and common sense will tell you what to do. This strategy takes practice but is well worth the effort.
同樣的精神動力運用於今天早上的想法，甚至幾分鐘之前的。一個發生在當你走出家門去上班路上的爭吵已經不再是一個真正的爭吵，它只是一個在你思想裏的想法。這種動力也將運用於這個晚上，下週，或者是10年以後在路上的這種以未來爲基礎的想法中。你將會發現，在所有情況下，如果你忽視或丟棄一種充滿你思想的消極想法，一種更加和平的感覺是僅僅暫時的離開。並且，在思想中一個更加和平的狀態下，你的智慧和常識會告訴你做什麼。這個策略需要練習但它值得這樣的努力。
