Three Daily Steps To Better Health
Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
by Jay Hopson
Our health suffers if our minds hold the wrong perception of who we are. We each have a mental picture of who we are, and our lives will follow blithely along the same path if we continually allow that mental image to be grasped through the lens of past experience. We are not what we have suffered, but our minds will think we are, unless we take the time to tell it differently. We will not be able to alter our eating habits or fitness goals until we change our mental thought processes about those habits and goals.
- Begin each day with mental programming to change your way of thinking. You're the only one who knows what your favorite self conversation is, so start looking at what you tell yourself each day. Challenge beliefs that you have about yourself that are contrary to better health. If your continual mind chatter states that you are unable to stay on a diet and that diets are strict and impossible, then that line of thinking is not helpful to your goal, so change it. Reverse these unhealthy lines of thinking. Start your day with self talk that introduces the new you... the healthy new you.
- Spend time each day noting your mental imagery. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, but a inner mental picture of ourselves is worth far more. Create a new image of yourself and start from scratch to refocus your mind on that image. If you see yourself healthy and fit every moment of every day, your body will do everything in it's power to achieve that goal. That is the way our subconscious works. We supply the belief and it makes that belief reality.
- Take a note pad with you for a few days and write down every thought that is contrary to your new healthy outlook. Be specific. Word for word reversal of those thoughts can change habits quickly and effectively. After a week or so of this, start actually working on your outside. As your mind is becoming convinced that you can be serious about changing your fitness habits you will find it much simpler to stay with your eating and exercise plan.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)AMEN! I completely agree with you on this one! I recently went through a similar inner struggle and realized how negative my random thoughts about myself were. Change definitely needs to take place within first and foremost!Thanks!Andrea, thank you for reading and commenting. I agree, although it is not always easy to keep your mind trained even when you know the importance of doing so. But in the long run, it pays to keep sowing positive seeds.
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