Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It Quotes

“The key to failure is the repetition of a belief in failure. Negative self-talk is the repetition of a belief in failure.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“Deep inside the workings of the human brain, there is no actual ‘truth.’ The part of the brain that stores all of the messages you have received, accepts what it is told most often. It then plays back to you the strongest messages it has received. And it plays those messages back to you as ‘truth’ or ‘fact,’ whether the messages are actually true or not.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“The problem is that Negative Self-Talk Disorder is an unconsciously acquired disorder that becomes physically, chemically, wired into your brain. (It becomes an actual disorder––faulty wiring––in the brain.) If you do nothing to change it, it not only stays, it also gets progressively worse. It becomes a part of your programs, and follows the rules under which your brain operates.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“It will be up to you to decide which of the program paths you choose to follow in your own life. Since you’re reading this book, I can assume that you are one of the people who choose to be ‘successful’ at life. If you’d like to do that (or be even more successful than you already are), start with your programs. Start with your self-talk.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“whether you meant it or not, if you repeat something in the negative often enough, your brain wires it in––and thinks it’s true. And when your brain thinks it’s true, it becomes true for you––even though it wasn’t true in the first place.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“That’s why you can get motivated and excited by a good idea––like setting a goal to start going to the gym, or a goal to start a new diet––and then, a week or two later, the idea is gone. You’re back to your old self. You’re no longer working out, or you’re no longer on your diet. What happened? What happened is, your old programs stepped in and took over once again. Which is exactly what your old programs are designed to do. If many of your hidden, subconscious programs are negative, disbelieving, or working against you, what else can you expect? Whether you believe you are or not, you may not be as in control of your life as you think you are. Unless you choose to take control of your own mental programming process, the result is inevitable: the programs you have now are controlling you.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“When your brain receives repeated messages like those––messages that redefine how you feel about yourself and your place in this world––your brain begins to record them and keep them. They are like the words to a song that changes your life, and never leaves you.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“It is also because the brain stores––and wires in––repeated messages, that you end up believing things about you that you tell yourself most often. The complete ‘you’ that you believe you are today, is the combined result of years of messages, both from the world around you and, most importantly, from your own self-talk.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“The first was that I would never again give in to negative programming, of any kind, in my own life, if I could help it in any way. The second decision I made in this area was that I would research the concept of self-talk and programming, and explore the science behind the concept.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“–the most important chemical process necessary to wiring or rewiring your brain is repetition. The brain is designed to pay attention to, and store, the messages that are repeated most often.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“What you believe about anything is not a measure of its correctness. What you believe about anything is a measure of the programs you have that support your belief.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It

“The following few questions will tell you if Negative Self-Talk Disorder may be a problem in your own life: Do you often think negative thoughts? Do you feel ‘down’ or depressed for no apparent reason? Do you have trouble focusing on your goals and accomplishing the things you want to accomplish? Do you argue more than you should? Do you often feel that life is working against you? Do you feel you are not in control of your future? Do you put off or procrastinate doing the things you need to do? Do you often see the worst first and the best last? Do you talk about yourself in any way that puts you down or makes you think less of yourself? Do you find that you are self-critical, and often critical of others? Is a noticeable amount of your self-talk each day made up of negative thoughts? Do you have trouble seeing the world, and life in general, as bright and as positive as you would like it to be? Do you find that you have stopped believing in your dreams, and have started to believe that those dreams are no longer true for you?”
― Shad Helmstetter, Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It