If someone walked up to you and said ” You’re way too fat!”  you’d be furious and devastated. Yet how many of us make this statement to ourselves, over and over, on a daily basis? Every time we look in the mirror, or maybe every time we eat? Since we’ve talked like this to ourselves for so long, we may not even consciously realize we’re doing it.

(I started this kind of self-talk when, at 5’0″, i hit 110 lb. I talked myself right up to almost 170 before realizing what I was doing. )

 

Of course the subject matter isn’t limited to size and shape- what are we saying to ourselves on a steady basis about our money flow? Relationships? Health?   Etc Etc.

What we say is what we create.

 

And complaining counts as self talk. Sometimes people don’t just complain, they even whine. And then they wonder why things just keep getting worse.

 

The more negative self-talk there is, the less likely that any self-improvement program will be successful. Our human systems are very similar to computers, and our thoughts do the programming. Repetitive thoughts are the same as typing commands right into the software.

 

In other words, your subconscious stores all of your self-talk in its memory for future reference. Not just for a short time, but forever.The more a particular thought is repeated, the stronger the program.

 

 It’s not realistic to say we’re never going to have a negative thought, but with awareness we can literally say “cancel cancel” and stop downloading suggestions that aren’t in accord with the life we really want to create.

 

What you manifest in life is similar to a computer printout. If you want something different from the printout, you know you have to change what is typed in the computer. We’d look rather foolish erasing what we don’t like on a printout, and then reprinting, expecting to see the corrections. And yet we do that with our lives.