Flipping the Script: How to Change Negative Self-Talk Patterns
Beyond setting intentions, creating vision boards, or doing any of the many celebrated New Year’s rituals to kickstart a new day, the key to embracing new beginnings lies within evolving your inner self-talk. Think of uplifting thoughts that align with your intentions, and more of the same is increasingly drawn to you, empowering you to have, be, and do your heart’s desires.
Ruminate on past failures, disappointments, and any other disempowering thoughts, feelings, and emotions that negate what you seek to manifest, and you are sure to repeat more of the same. In other words, the more you continue to recycle and repeat the same thoughts, the more liable you are to continue to get more of the same. As within so without. Hence, you are what you continuously think all day long. If you change your inner self-talk, you essentially change your life.
Naturally, no one consciously wants to indulge in negative self-talk. However, old habits die hard. Despite your best intentions, consistently repeating positive statements affirming that you already are what you aspire to be, do, and have, you will continue to fall short as long as your inner talk conflicts.
We live in a world that calls us to fully indulge and use our five senses to experience the world. Interestingly, we don’t solely live in the external world; we simultaneously live in both, as we disproportionately spend most of our time in our heads. Unlike the people and places we interact with, we take our thoughts, feelings, and emotions everywhere. The substance of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel within are all reflected in the outer world, as we are what we think all day long.
The substance of our predominant thought is reflected in every aspect of our lives. Likewise, your energy flows where your attention goes. Think that nothing is happening in your favor, and you’re to find more and more evidence to support your belief. Whereas, if you have thoughts that adamantly reaffirm that everything is working together for your good, you’ll have more thoughts confirming your belief. Whether your belief is actual, false, good, bad, or indifferent, everything happens to you as you believe.
Shifting Negative Self-Talk
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