It might seem that life is just a matter of dealing with what is thrown at you. However, if you want to take control and create the life you want, the best place to start is to love yourself. Psychologists have said for years that people who value themselves and have high levels of self-esteem are happier in general and have better coping skills than people with negative feelings toward themselves.
Affirmations Work Wonders
Affirmations are sayings you often tell yourself. For many people stuck in negative thought patterns, affirmations seem trite and false, since they are more comfortable with the negative messages they tell themselves. However, turning negative thought patterns into positive ones can make a huge difference in how you see yourself.
Affirmations are messages that are heard and understood by the
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The best audio files are ones you do yourself. Hearing your own voice is more effective than listening to someone else's voice because your subconscious immediately recognizes your personal authority. One of the best times to listen to your audio file is right before you go to sleep, when you are relaxed and you mind is receptive.
Affirmation Method #2 - Write your affirmations and place them where you can see them regularly. You can write your affirmations on sticky-notes and place them around your bathroom mirror and repeat them to yourself as you go through your morning and nighttime routines.
Affirmations are a great way to increase your self-esteem. The more often you repeat positive messages to yourself, the better you will feel about yourself. You will find that you love yourself more and you will begin to behave and act in positive ways that reflect the loving messages that you are sending to yourself. By using affirmations, you can take control of what you think and feel about yourself instead of being at the mercy of what others tell
The group participated in learning how to give themselves and others positive affirmations. The group was encouraged to give their selves positive affirmations daily. The group was given a handout on positive affirmations. The group played Bingo for recreation.
The book "Mindset The New Psychology of success" written by Carol S. Dweck is about how one can change his/her life if they have the right mindset. "In this book, you'll learn how to simply believe in yourself"(Dweck) you may think 'Oh I already believe in myself' but sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
Keep in mind that what's going on outside you is a result of what's going on INSIDE you. What self-limiting belief do you have about your skills and abilities? Take stock and be honest with yourself. The average person has 50,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day. When we talk to ourselves about "ourselves," much of that self-talk is negative. We are usually our harshest critic. As the saying goes, "How many times in a day do we 'should' all over ourselves with everything that we 'should' be doing?!" Always remember...strive for progress, not
It is not mentally not looking at circumstances with eyes that see only what you want to see”. In other words using Positive Self-Talk shows us the truth on real situations. For example: you were trying out for the school volleyball team and you messed up on bumping the ball, when the negative thoughts occur that is when the positive self talk will take place “ok I’m now going to focus on what I need to complete in order to make it on the team.” There is a way in which you can develop a positive self talk habit, there are 3 steps and the first one is “Mantra”, choose a mantra and find a positive self talk for example; “I feel strong”. This positive self talk will encourage you to feel motivated. The second step is “Practice Multiple Scenarios”after using the positive self talk from step one, repeat the line so you can practice having it sink in your brain. It will help you during real situations in sports a example for this step is “Anything can happen, and I’m definitely not out of this, Don’t let up”. Finally, the last step called “Creating A Positive Mental Image Or Visualization” this technique can help you create a visual picture on what you are doing and saying This powerful combination will create a positive message.
Take the time to focus on you while you are focusing on the world around you. If you cannot be content with the way your life is shaped, you are going to have a harder time helping others. Take a couple of breathes. Realize that you must accept things the way they are and in return, you will understand there worth. One must live in every moment. Accept any imperfections you may have. Analyze any mistakes you may make and work to correct them. Finally, take a walk and seek out new adventures. New adventures can help us be present, awaken our senses, and learn how to let go and hold on. Finding a balance in your life by being mindful to yourself, will help you to be mindful in the outside
But if we want to be objective coordinated, and positive we have to think that way. We will engrain these convictions in our mind, treating them as truth. We are likewise influenced by our initial surroundings: If we were hopeless and forlorn, we might develop to feel unworthy or uncomfortable socially. We may likewise copy or tackle the states of mind that our initial guardians had toward themselves. On the off chance that they were self-despising, tentative, or discouraged, we may copy these attributes or view ourselves as having these same qualities in adulthood. Our mindsets like to box us in, categorized by a personality we were born with and not one that we created. It can be dubious and surge us with musings that are apparently self-relieving. It's simpler, all things considered, to perceive an inside adversary when it's shouting at you that you're inept or disappointment. Shurr said that "people want to grow flowers all they do though is water the weeds. What you think about most you will move towards in your life. People come to be all the time and say I want to lose wight, or I want to quit smoking. Instead, they should think and say I want to eat healthily and clean fresh water. I want to breathe clean, fresh air. Even if you say non-smoker your brain hears smoker. You need to focus on what you want instead of what you do not want.
I believe that in life you have to have a positive mindset on the things you do. Having a positive mindset will influence the things that you do. If you are constantly being negative then negative things will happen to you, but if you are positive, positive things will happen to you.
Take an honest assessment of yourself, highlight both your favorable and adverse qualities to become more self-aware. Be willing to become vulnerable; hold yourselves accountable to your values and recognize the power of continual transformation (pg. 60). Seek authentic and candid feedback from those know you best, not those who will feed your ego. The importance of this stems from how easily we can deceive ourselves when we rely on our own assessment of who we are. Proverbs 3:7 warns us; "Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from
vincing yourself that you not only have the power to change your attitudes but that
If you want more abundance in your life, you need to start thinking differently. The way you think now has had an impact on your abundance, so if you don't feel like abundance is in your life, then you want to think thoughts that have a different impact. Positive affirmations for abundance will help you think differently, act differently, and start to attract the type of abundance that makes you feel full and happy. Following are 11 affirmations you can start using now. Positive Affirmations For Abundance 1.
Affirmations for success are a very powerful force that can change the way that your life is going right now. These simple, yet powerful statements program your subconscious mind into seeing the things around you in the way that you want them to be seen. The most obvious example of this is to view yourself as being successful: if you see yourself as successful, than you will be. It sounds fairly easy, right? Well, it really is that easy. In order to get affirmations for success to work for you, there are 3 simple steps to follow.
For the most part, research has shown that daily affirmations are highly effective when they are used correctly. But, for one reason or another, some people simply can't get them to work. So it doesn't take long for them to feel so defeated that they give up on trying to include them as part of their goal-accomplishment process. This only further delays their progress though, which is why it is important to understand the following information on why daily affirmations don't work for everyone and what you should be doing instead.
Do you feel like you can't take control of your life? If you read Charles Dickens great expectations you might feel a connection with several of the characters who let other people run their lives for that People run their lives for them and it never ends up turning out in their favor. You should learn to take control of your life as soon as possible because after all if you don't live your life for you there is little meaning to life.
I always take a negative situation and try seeing the positive in it. For example, if I am walking on the street and see an advertisement for healthier foods and the main attention is on a very thin model, usually I start thinking I should pay attention to what I eat so I can look at that model I instead tell myself that I am so blessed to have a healthy body and to have to two legs to walk me everywhere I please to. Simple reminders like this go a long way.
Years ago I read a passage in a book by: “Louise L. Hay” she said; every morning you can get up and look in the mirror and decide what kind of day you are going to have.” The beauty of it is, you can get up the following morning and decide all over again. This is a powerful statement, letting us know we have the power to control our feelings and shape our outlook on life. If you are telling yourself positive things, it will help you build a positive self-esteem.