What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

by Shad Helmstetter

After you examine the philosophies, the theories, and the practiced methods of influencing human behavior, you’ll find, as I did, that it gets down to the simplicity of one small but powerful fact: You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming––what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.

It makes no difference whether we believe it or not. The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.

Whatever you put into your mind, in one way or another, is what you will get back out, in one way or another.

The more you think about yourself in a certain way, the more you will think about yourself in that same certain way. The more you think about anything in a certain way, the more you will believe that that is how it really is. The mind works that way because the brain always tries to tie any new thing you think to something you already believe.

The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do if you tell it often enough and strongly enough.

We have learned that what we put into our brains is what we will get back out. We also have learned that the subconscious mind is a sponge; it will believe anything you tell it––it will even believe a lie––if you tell it often enough and strongly enough. That part of the brain makes no moral judgments; it simply accepts what you tell it.

self-talk is a way to override our past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with conscious, positive new directions. Self-talk is a practical way to live our lives by active intent rather than by passive acceptance.