Learn to Understand Your Self Talk and Lose Weight

Learn to Understand Your Self Talk and Lose Weight

During this article I am going to be explaining why your self talk will actually help you to lose weight. Your self talk is your very own internal chatter box and is the voice that you use when you talk to yourself, that's right the one that's saying, 'I don't talk to myself'.

Now it's really important that you pay attention to the things that you do say to yourself because these statements that you give yourself will manifest into your life, for good or bad.

Think about it - Do you tell yourself that losing weight is easy or hard? Do you tell yourself that you have a sweet tooth and then wonder why you cannot resist chocolate? Note-thinking makes it so!

If you want to lose weight then the statements that you make to yourself must match that outcome. So over this next week, monitor the things that you do say to yourself and then write them onto a sheet of paper. That way at the end of the week you can then review this list and gain a clearer picture of the things which are currently stopping you from reaching your weight goal.

Your self talk is very similar to planting seeds into some very rich fertile. So just imagine now that in front of you was a plant pot which had inside it the richest fertile soil ever. Next imagine that this pot just grow whatever you planted into it, whether it was a beautiful rose or a dandelion weed. Now in a way your mind is very similar to this plant pot because your mind will act upon anything which is planted into it.

 

Now if you had some tomato seeds and you planted those seeds into that pot, what would grow? Yes tomatoes. Now if you picked one of those tomatoes, bit into it and came out in a rash, would the pot care? (Presuming the pot did think). Well no, it would probably think well you give me a tomato seed so I've just given you a tomato plant.

This scenario is very similar to what happens when you say a negative statement to yourself. Your mind plants this seed and then carries out the action. So if you say to yourself that you find it difficult to lose weight then your mind will just act upon that statement and make it difficult for you to lose weight.


So what would happen if you planted another tomato seed into that pot? Well yes you would get another tomato plant. The pot wouldn't think, 'I know you don't like tomatoes so I'm going to give you cucumbers'. No the pot will only grow what you plant into it and in a sense this is how your mind works.

So would wishing for Cumbers help even though you planted a tomato seed? Well no you will still only get tomatoes regardless of hard you wished for cucumbers.

This is a very common and is something that people who struggle with their weight very often do. They tell themselves that they find it difficult to lose weight (seed), wish they were slim and moan when the outcome does not match that wish.

So one of the keys to losing weight is first to understand what you are planting into your mind. Then once you are aware of what seeds you are planting in your mind you can then replace these thought patterns into something which matches the outcome that you want.

If we took this same approach with our plant pot we would in order to get cucumbers have to stop planting tomatoes seeds and start planting cucumber seeds instead. If we did this then we wouldn't have to wish for cucumbers because cucumbers is what we would get.

So over this next week really begin to monitor your self talk and discover if you're planting the correct seeds in your life.


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