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What really is negative mind chatter and how can I stop myself from
doing this?
By Jan Mitchell of Expanding Minds
Negative mind chatter is a behavior that is usually learned in childhood
and is based on a child’s perceptions. The following is a common scenario:
Three year old Connie’s mom was worried about her elderly mother who was
sick and needed full time nursing care, which there was little money for.
Stressed and distracted, Connie’s mom spent less and less time with Connie.
Little Connie soon began to think that there was something wrong with her
and that she didn’t deserve her moms time or attention. As a result, in
Connie’s adult years her mind chatter warned her, “Don’t expect much in
relationships.” And she never did.
Divorced and hurting, old limiting beliefs of “I don’t deserve and I’m not
good enough,” haunted Connie until she learned how to re-program them to
allow her to believe that she is loving, loved and loveable.
Your unconscious mind believes you! If you think you are not smart enough or
not good enough, not important enough, don’t deserve or that life is too
hard, your mind doesn’t know if what you “think” is good for you or not. It
can’t see what is real or tell what is imagined (like worry thoughts). It
accepts that “what you think” is what you want and it creates the results
that supports those thoughts. So, if you think “I’m not smart enough”, your
unconscious mind believes that and creates results that support “not being
smart” in your life. This is the perfect example of what negative mind
chatter is.
Negative mind chatter is learned and can be changed! Neuro Science has
discovered that the key to changing is to change the “negative programs your
brain is running” through your senses or what you see, hear and feel in your
mind and body. Through these studies they learned that the pictures you see
in your mind, the thoughts you think and the feelings you feel in your body
dictate your thoughts, beliefs and mental programs. So it is possible to
gently change negative programs to positive mental programs with empowering
pictures in your mind’s eye, supportive thoughts and self-talk, as well as
confident, happy feelings in your body.
The result is that you become more confident, enjoy the moment, install
supportive self-talk continuously, improve relationships and reach your
desired goals.
For more details on this subject, please contact Jan Mitchell of
Expanding Minds at 403.225.2973 or visit her website at
www.expanding-minds.com |
