By Charlene M Brown
Are you constantly berating or belittling yourself? Who puts you down the most? Is it you!? 
“Self Talk” is all those little things we say to ourselves that we think no one hears! Wrong! YOU hear them, every time you say or think them. When you add it all up, you have probably said volumes of negative things to yourself about what you can’t do, or how you can’t make it.
Think about it. If the only books you read were all telling you how horrible you were and you continued to read them for the rest of your life, what do you suppose you would think as you passed on?
This is, in essence, what you have been doing with your Self Talk.
Hmmmm . . . . .
Now think about this: what if you changed those belittling remarks to yourself into something more positive or uplifting.
What if, instead of telling ourselves how bad we did at something, we find something that we are good at doing and focus on it? Doesn’t that feeling of goodness grow within you?
Doesn’t that feel good!?
Now, instead of belittling ourselves, what if we said “I am good enough, just as I am; I am Perfect exactly where I am in LIFE”?
Didn’t that feel good just to read it? Now try saying it out loud!
I swear by Louise Hay’s bestselling book, You Can Heal Your Life
Most of us don’t realize the power of our thoughts. But let me tell you this: they are very, VERY Powerful things and everything we think starts it coming towards us.
“You will get what you think about,” I always say. So think about this: if you are always thinking in belittling or degrading ways about yourself, you are belittling and degrading yourself every time you have one of these thoughts!
But what does the opposite side look like: If you think great thoughts about yourself, all the time, doesn’t that make you GREAT? It Does!
Here is another little secret for you: (stage whispering) You can change your thoughts.
That’s right, I said it! You Can Change Your Thoughts! And with the changing of your thoughts, will come the changing of your self (and your Self Talk).
So come on! Let’s change our Selves!
Oh yeah, one more thing: say positive things to people and positive things will come back to you multiplied!
What have you said to yourself today? How can you CHANGE IT!!?
Do You Love Your Life Now! I Do!! (because I make a habit of saying positive things to myself and others every day!)
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- The New Woman Leader: Expectations and Support in the 21st Century!
- Letting Go of the Past!
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January 9th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Great post! That’s so true–what we think about we bring about. The cool thing is that we get to choose what we think about! But we do have to become aware of that little voice in our head, too. Sometimes I don’t even realize I’m speaking so meanly to myself! But when I catch me doing that, I say STOP! and then repeat some nice things that I want to have in my head for a minute or two.
I spoke about this very topic on my radio show today, too. I talked about making a playlist that supports the positive thoughts you want to have and listen to them every day!
January 9th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Janice, You’re AWESOME! And keep replacing those negative thoughts with positive ones. We tend to be so hard on ourselves!