Thank you for joining me on a Saturday afternoon. It shows that my readers are dedicated to taking control of their health. Yesterday, we started on our journey to making sure we keep our minds healthy. We discovered that being optimistic can do wonders for your overall health. We also discussed the seven steps to making sure we can be the best that we absolutely can mentally.
Here’s a list of those steps:
1. Become an optimist - Instead of thinking the worst of everything,try finding the good in all things.
2. Become aware of self talk
3. Ask better questions
4. Employ positive self affirmations
5. Set positive goals
6. Practice positive visualizations
7. Laugh more
Yesterday, we discussed the first step and even gave you a few tools to use so that you could perform a self test. I hope everyone had the opportunity to take the test, but even more that you all learned about yourselves as a person a little more. I placed links to a couple of great books on my blog yesterday that will also serve as great tools on your path to self discovery.
Today, we move on to the 2nd step, Self Talk. The fact is, we all talk to ourselves, either verbally or mentally. Our self talk has the ability to reach our subconscious. In order to maintain a positive mental attitude, you must stay clear of negative self talk. We should actually become aware of our self talk and then work within our conscience to implore positive self talk. There are a couple of tools that you can use to begin the process.
1. Become aware of yourself – Meaning, begin noticing the times you perform self talk and notice what you are actually saying in your mind.
2. Examine – Examine at that very moment if what you said in your mind was positive or negative.
3. Evaluate – Evaluate what you said and think of a way it could have been created better in your mind so that the outcome was positive.
4. Apply – We all pretty much have repetitive conversations in our mind, so we should apply the positive outcome from the previous step of examination each time.
We try to teach our children to think before they speak and self talk works the same way. Think before you think and after practice, you will have positive thoughts more than negative thoughts.
To start your journey on the discovery of self talk, there are also other tools to use. These tools are actually included in the aforementioned steps. Steps 3 and 4 above, asking better questions and employ positive affirmations work hand in hand with positive self talk.
Tomorrow, we will discuss those steps. Until then, try practicing the tool mentioned above and begin setting your mind up for positive awakening.
Until Then,
Blessings, Peace & Prosperity
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