#703: Negative Imagination v. Positive Imagination
The Confidence Podcast: Mindset Coaching and Tips to Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, Self-Doubt, Perfectionism, Overthinking, Impostor Syndrome and Insecurity
Trish Blackwell | Life Coach, Confidence Coach, Mindset Coach
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Why your brain keeps rehearsing fear — and how to retrain it for confidence.
Most people don't realize this:
They are using their imagination against themselves all day long.
They imagine:
- rejection
- embarrassment
- failure
- awkwardness
- disappointment
- people judging them
And then they wonder why they feel anxious, hesitant, emotionally exhausted, and stuck in overthinking.
In this episode, we're unpacking:
- what "negative imagination" actually is
- why high achievers are especially vulnerable to it
- how your brain accidentally rehearses fear
- and how to intentionally train positive imagination instead
Because confidence isn't just about what you DO.
It's about what your mind practices repeatedly before you ever take action.
This episode will help you:
- stop mentally spiraling
- catch catastrophic thinking faster
- strengthen your self-trust
- and train your brain to imagine possibility instead of fear
PLUS — I'll share how I personally use my new Reframe Engine AI tool to interrupt anxious thought spirals in real time and retrain my thinking within minutes instead of spending 45+ minutes stuck in overthinking loops.
If you're tired of your brain working against you…this episode is for you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Your brain is imagining something all day long. |
| 0:03.8 | It's either positive imagination or negative imagination. |
| 0:07.3 | And the question is, which one are you engaging in more? |
| 0:10.3 | Most people actually don't realize that they're constantly rehearsing with a negativity bias of rejection, embarrassment, failure, awkwardness, self-judgment, being judged, and not being |
| 0:23.9 | enough. Then we find ourselves wondering why we feel so tightly strong, so anxious, so hesitant, |
| 0:31.1 | and so utterly, emotionally exhausted. I'm going to tell you, high achievers are especially good |
| 0:37.4 | at this because we mentally |
| 0:38.8 | practice catastrophe instead of possibility. And your imagination is what you're thinking about. |
| 0:46.4 | And what you think about is what you create in your life. And so your imagination is shaping |
| 0:50.1 | not only your confidence, but your life more than you realize because what your brain rehearses |
| 0:55.8 | repeatedly, it starts to believe. And in today's episode, we're talking about exactly this, |
| 1:01.9 | the difference between negative imagination and positive imagination and how to stop mentally spiraling |
| 1:08.1 | and how to retrain your brain so you start practicing possibility |
| 1:12.6 | instead of fear. Welcome to the Confidence Podcast, your go-to space for high-performance |
| 1:18.5 | coaching designed for ambitious, high-achieving individuals who want more out of life. |
| 1:25.4 | You deserve the confidence that rises to meet your dreams. This podcast will |
| 1:29.3 | help you activate it fully. I'm your host, Trish Blackwell. Let's get started. Hey there, |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Trish Blackwell and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. We're in episode number |
| 1:39.9 | 702. No, 703. Y'all, correct me. We're in episode 703 and we, 703, y'all correct me. We're in episode 703, and you heard it here. We are talking |
| 1:49.5 | about the difference between that negative imagination and positive imagination and how to be |
| 1:54.2 | on to yourself. Now, if you listened last week's episode 702, we talked about how to deal with |
| 1:59.4 | negative people and not become one of them. |
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