"The mind is your greatest weapon"...don't turn it against yourself! Too many people have self doubts. Too many people don't love themselves. Too many people are their own worst critics. And it's sad. While it is healthy to question yourself sometimes, it can hurt you if you do it too much.
It all comes down to the fact that words have power...including the words you say to yourself. If you constantly tell yourself you are not worthy of love, then you will never truly receive it, except from your family members. Then, too, if you constantly tell yourself you are ugly, fat, stupid (fill in the blank), then you are going to begin to feel that way AND act that way. Life is hard enough without a poor self image! What we think of ourselves is a habit. Begin today to change your own self image so that eventually you will habitually think of yourself in a different light. Use your greatest weapon (your mind, if you haven't been paying attention) to help change your self perception. So how do you do it? Good question! And the answer depends on what you want to change. Do you think you are too fat to feel good about yourself? Then come up with a plan to lose weight! Picture what you would have to do to lose weight and then start doing it! As you do, create a new internal dialog for yourself...I am a person who eats healthily and avoids processed foods and snacks. Each day, wake up and think, I enjoy eating healthy foods, and then do so! Think about what a person who eats healthily would want to eat...and then eat it! The more you actually do what you think about, the more your self image will change! It's hard to look at yourself as fat if you are eating healthily every day and exercising...but it takes time. Doing it once in a while won't change your mind. You need to own the habit. Eat healthy foods, avoid unhealthy things and control your portions. Start a work out routine...and stick to it! After a while, these habits will become a part of you, and you will become toned and lose weight. The more you believe that you are a healthy individual, the less you will "feel" like you are a fat slob. Words have power! That is just one example. Usually, our self image has more than just one negative aspect to it. And they all work together to cripple your self image. Each day, work to improve those negative aspects of your self image just a little bit. Just saying that those negative traits don't exist is not enough! You need to take actions to prove to yourself that those things are not true. Work at it. Try for just a 1% improvement each day on your negative traits and in four months you will have a 100% change in your self image. Your mind will accept the change, if you actually take the steps necessary to change your self image. If you only think about it, and you don't take action, then your mind will never believe the story you are telling it. Take the steps necessary to make the changes, so that your mind knows that it is holding a false picture. Fail to take action, and your mind will fail to see a difference. There is no free lunch in this world. Change your actions to change your mind. It is that simple!
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