Troubling thoughts are like ugly little monkeys, sitting on your shoulders. There are times when imagination runs away with us, and we start composing scripts in our heads – and they are always the scripts of disaster movies! When that happens, I recommend visualizing the thoughts sitting on your shoulders like monkeys. Then send them scurrying off down the road!

 

Here is an email from a caller I recommended this technique to. It works!

 

“I just wanted you to know how I used your advice today. As, I told you I am getting to know a friend of mine name ****, even better. Its been real nice and it seems that we are just naturally just getting closer. I have some real fears around this...as I've told you and you told me to send them off down the street with the Monkey.

We spent almost all last evening practicing for a concert we were singing in tonight. it was nice. I felt real good and I could tell he did too. Today when I called him to see if we were still going to ride together and get the low down on when, etc...He said he was sick and not singing.

OK heres what happened in my head......I thought he wasnt sick...he just got scared or lazy or hmmm let me see....just about any scenario ran through my head including his family notices and is talking him out of it.

Man did my head take off. In less than a minute he was drawn up as the biggest "****head" in the whole world.

You should have been in my head. If my thoughts were being recorded and played out loud they would have mistaken me for Sybil

I was thinking these things at the same time the other half of my head was rebuking me for being so silly.

It finally hit me! The monkey! I got in the shower and started the mental visualization of washing off, down the drain, all my negativity. And then....The monkey grabbed the box of bad thoughts out of my head and ran out of the house and down the street with them. I started laughing.....I felt much better as I visualized him swinging this box and running away

Thanks for letting me know about the silly monkeys.....Im sure I'll need them again :0)

 

K” 

 

Thanks for sharing, K – I hope your feedback will encourage others to try what helped you.