how has our mind evolved to think negatively?

[Guest guest]

salaamz:-)i know that our mind naturally generates both positive and neg. thoughts. And from Joaanne Dahls podcast, she mentioned something like our mind generates 5 times more neg. thoughts than positive. Hence challanging a thought, replacing it with a more rational or logical thought, don't work in the long run. Russ in his podcast also mentioned that our feelings inflence our thoughts but don't necessarily create it as our feelings r under multiple sources of stimuli at any one time. Dr. also mentioned our minds have been evolved to think negatively, i would like to know how? if possible, in Russ 's style, as, if the explanation getz too didactic (too scientific) u might lose me. Beating ourselves up over neg. thoughts that pop up, or evaluating our expreinces,or judgeing ourselves based on the thought, or looking for evidence to prove a neg. thought wrong, and replacing it with a more positve one, ALL these , in my perspective, take us away from acceptance of our private expreinces as they r, and cultivating that 'self-compassion' that is so needed when experecining painful thoughts and feelings. A better understanding of how our mind functions would help us try to understand ourselves better. Hence i would like to know. jazakallah khair (thank you:-)wasalaam:-)"" Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.

That way, when you criticize them, you're already a mile away AND you have their

shoes." ~ a very pious intellectual