I am assuming everyone has at some point in their life had someone say something negative to them. I am assuming at some point we have said something negative to ourselves. Some people think ill of themselves without any outside explanation. Beautiful people who don't understand what everyone else sees. Incredibly charismatic men and women who can't see beyond their own insecurities. With that being said, I learned something this past week that makes so much sense I don't know how it could be any clearer.
I was listening to a CD by an amazing National Sales Director with Mary Kay. She was explaining how our mind works from some research she has done and books she has read. (For consideration of the blog I am not going to go into detail about that) Something I have understood lately is that your mind believes what you tell it. It is something that I believe and something that I am working on with my own "self talk." However, I didn't quite understand how this worked or why until now.
Your conscious mind is your logic and reason. But your subconscious mind contains the programs that control the functions of our body. It takes information from our conscious mind and turns it into action! The perception we have of ourselves might be limited due to the false beliefs that we or others have put there throughout our lives. Phrases like, "You're too shy to do that," "That kid is faster than you," "You're not smart enough for Harvard," "You're weird," "You are such a nerd." They may not appear to be THAT bad, but your subconscious mind remembers them FOREVER and puts it into action. It will go on following the input that is there. It does not know the difference between true and false. It does not take a joke, it takes you at your word.
Research has found that 77% of the programs in our mind are wrong. Would you fly in a plane with 77%, 50% or even 25% of the programs being wrong? NO WAY! But we walk around in our bodies every single day. How can we cure these false beliefs? How can we become the person we were really intended to become?
We need to surround ourselves with positive influences. We need to stop telling ourselves negative things. But the real way to fix all of the broken beliefs is to replace them with who we would like to be. Hang pictures in your house of the kind of home you would like to have, the kind of family life you would love, the kind of trips you would like to take, the kindness you would like to instill on others, the kind of money you would like to have, and even the spirituality you would like to have. Make a dream book with pictures all of these things. It takes just 21 days of looking at it every morning and every night to convince your subconscious that it will happen. You will forget about the book after a while, but if you do the 21 days and you surround yourself with positive influences and create a way to make it happen then 2 or 3 years down the road 90% of what was in that book will have happened. It has happened over and over again in my business. People creating dreams for themselves, changing their thought process, and their dreams come true.
We are NOT the people that we think we are. We are so much more! We can create anything we would like to in our lives. We CAN influence our future and we can change ourselves and our lives for the better. I am going to make a dream book. I am going to look at it every night and every morning for 21 days straight. And I will write a blog post in two or three years and let you know how much of it all has happened. It has happened before for me. With my goals I wrote down, I forgot about them and a year later all of them came true except one, which I am still working on. :) Suffice it to say, I will become the person I want to be and I will create the life I want to have. I am so excited for this new adventure. Who's with me?
I love this Krista!
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