A kind of negative thinking linked to our underlying core beliefs, automatic negative thoughts (or ANTs) are thoughts that occur in response to everyday events, for example, telling yourself that ...

In fact, the mind will overlook mountains and oceans to find itself an ant hill that can ... Sometimes, we assign our negative self-story to someone else; our thought loops then try to undo ...

"Many intrusive thoughts are like little ‘ANTs'-Automatic Negative Thoughts," explains Awadallah. "Just like ants at a picnic ...

So where does this narrator come from? Our core beliefs: all of the ingrained positive and negative thoughts that influence how we think and feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Alex Wild via CNN Newsource A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Apterostigma collare from Costa Rica appears in a fungus garden. Shared evolutionary history seems to have benefited both ...

It can help to recognize that intrusive thoughts are automatic and not under your control. “Many intrusive thoughts are like little ‘ANTs’—Automatic Negative Thoughts,” explains Awadallah.

(CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the beginning of the 1994 ...