Letting Go of Negative Thoughts | Mufti Abu Layth

and yet we are closer to them than their very arteries that pump the blood you've always been more connected to the divine then you realize you just have to change that thinking whatever you consider is what happens he says who are we to to turn away we'll turn right up will show up all you have to do is show some love

may allah bless you all salaam allah [Music] it's often been said that we are our own greatest enemies that the negativity begins from within us and it all starts there negative thoughts i want to take a look at some verses from surakar and surah maidah and how they can help us deal with this

negativity so ruminating thoughts what are they they are excessive intrusive negative thoughts about feelings or experiences [Music] let's take this verse from surah verse 16. allah says we have created insane and we know what the self whispers and insinuates when it comes to negativity

right allahu akbar and these thoughts can become so overwhelming at times another verse surah 101 and one of the amazing meanings we can take from this is people of faith have faith do not pursue a questioning that will only be hurtful if it appears to you that we have to

refrain stop this series of questioning that takes us down this rabbit hole there's an incredible saying by mark twain he said i've lived through some terrible things in my life some of which actually happened because most of which were just simply in there and we have to change that mindset you see in psychology we learn that the brain and the mind have a much greater affinity to negativity than they do to positivity

and that's because it was essential for human survival but it can at times become self-destructive it's a bit like the blood having a greater affinity to carbon monoxide than oxygen wow so if you find yourself ever in a cloud of noise this this this surrounding of this clamor of negativity that you can't seem to shake off here's a quick simple yet effective method

that you can just take both hands rest them on your heart breathe deeply as though you're breathing into your heart [Music] feel the heartbeat suddenly it all begins to get very calm and the noise will dissipate

feel [Music] that peat the heart it beats a hundred thousand times a day through tiny vessels that if stretched out would be 60 000 miles long just think about that that's enough to go around the entire globe twice over all within you [Music] and if you find yourself drowning in this negativity and it and what's amazing is there's a hadith that the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam said in the the shaytan or this negativity it's as though it flows in the veins of insulin and you say that's the case that is exactly how how can i escape it then and we go back to verse 16 of surah af we finish the verse allah says

and yet we are closer to them than the very arteries that pump the blood you've always been more connected to the divine than you realize you just have to change that thinking you think positive and positive will happen allah has promised you there's an amazing poem by the legend he says

that this abode this world is an industry of illusion whatever you consider is what happens he says who are we to to turn away we'll turn right up will show up all you have to do is show some love

may allah bless you all so [Music] you