I'm the only one to blame but, I've been having tough times lately, and because of how aware I am that I'm the main reason behind everything that happened to me, I noticed I tend to torture myself so often, and I said: "No more regretful thoughts for today!"
It's very easy to fall into the trap of regret, repeat phrases like: "If I only did this instead of that" "If only I had thought of that before I did this" and many other phrases depending on what exactly you regret, maybe it's something you said to a beloved person, maybe it's something you did or didn't do.
But we all are aware that regret could never bring anything we lost back, it's incapable of bringing back time to fix our past mistakes, instead it ties us down, make us paralyzed in the face of change. We end up in a world of fantasy where we fix our mistakes only in our imagination and start creating scenarios.
I'm not telling you this because I'm wise, it's the exact opposite; it seems to me like I did too much regret lately, and most of my thoughts have been merely regretful.
Regret is your enemy. Learning from your past mistakes is something but torturing yourself, is something else. This is just a friendly reminder to be kind to yourself and treat yourself as someone you genuinely love. Peace.
Negative thoughts for sure do have an impact on us. It’s not always apparent in the beginning but if we are constantly thinking poorly about ourselves then it has a lot of long term impacts on both our mental and physical health!
You're absolutely right about that, I was already affected by them and that where I knew I had to stop