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@Vipassana agreed haha

@Girzo How fat where you before you started. I am 183cm tall and my goal i 75. I weigh right now 95 kilos. could you estimate how long it would get me to go down to 75?

Hi, I am a complete newbie to meditation and as you can guess by the title i am a professional negative thinker. My question is simple. Does persistent meditation eliminate my negative thinking patterns? If yes how? How can sitting down and clearing my mind fix that. Thanks for your response

@Nahm I don't think the way I worded it matters that much but what does matter is when i say I'm 100% aware of it. I literally mean that when a negative/destructive thought pops up, I'm aware of how i am emotionally and physically influenced by it. I am also aware of the fact that the negative thought has a way of attracting another negative thought and another and another, creating the famous snowball effect. Maybe its just a matter of time for me to stop engaging in thinking that way, since being aware of how shitty these thoughts make me feel i would subconsciously lose interest in continuing to entertain them. But I've done it long enough, for more than a year now. So if that were to happen it would have probably happened by now, don't you think? Its habitual, I've been negative/self destructive for as long as i remember. Its the only way i know to think. Thanks in advance for your wisdom, would like to hear more from you

@Nahm " I am really curious, do you find mostly negative outcomes in the ongoings of your life? " Yeah, i do but let me tell you this, when ever I'm not engaging in negative thinking everything seems to work out. My self esteem sky rockets My daily goals get achieved Conversations become fun and playful. I become sociable School is overall much easier and i feel relaxed, passionate, free ... the list goes on How ever all that seems to go down hill when ever i think negatively, its as if the thoughts manifest them selves. The thing is i am 100% aware of the effect negative thinking has. But I've been doing it for so damn long its become second nature to me.

@LaucherJunge @pluto @cirkussmile well said.