Breaking the chain reaction!

So today I was speaking to a colleague , who was describing about an event wherein she fainted at a metro station because of a lot of stress( as there were no aberrations on front of diet intake). This event scared her off from travelling alone in future and she was trying to figure out if this situation was avoidable. We talked about it in detail and tried to understand the process so as to avoid the similar kind of situation in the future. 

The credits for this ideation goes to my blogger friend Agatsya, however, it finds relevance in a lot of other aspects as well. So a single thought which occurs to our mind starts a chain reaction . In case of her it was  negative thought. So taking an example,  thoughts about a situation like the current ill health of your loved ones which attracts all negative thoughts associated with it like the intensity of the disease, its curability, which again pulls extreme negative thoughts of the chances of non survival and further ends up imagining a life without them. So basically, a negative thought, gains momentum through your thinking, attracts some more negative thoughts, gains a velocity, starts intensifying and a dense cloud is created which literally translates into a cyclone like situation .This eventually leads to a point wherein your body responds to this mindset and responds in an outburst . This could be tears or headache or depending upon the intensity as in her case, loosing consciousness.

So once we are aware of this process which is happening with us, we are in control of our actions and can choose to respond. In such a case, when you are aware of your thoughts going towards extreme densification, you realize that critical point and break that chain reaction by thinking  about something else. You could also choose and guide your body not to react in a way which is undesirable by you;  like crying. 

The learning from this is that this process remains the same for the positive thoughts as well. The only difference is that  as a result of intensification of the positive thoughts, the response of the body will be a smile and happy feeling! 

However , easier said than done, all this requires a conscious effort of being aware of  the ever-running thought process in our minds . A conscious choice to filter out the desirable /positive or undesirable/negative thoughts. 

It is a well proven fact that the thoughts contain energy and since thoughts are the penultimate step before the actions that we take, or the response that we give to a particular situation, it is essentially a factor within our control. 

We may consciously choose to channelise only the positive thoughts carrying positive energies and filter out the clutter of the negativities . 

The question is whether we are ready to take charge of analysing the thoughts and the stage of the chain reaction ? Are we ready to filter out and choose between the type of thoughts every single moment!