Our inner voices by default are usually negative and as such have quite an impact on us. Self motivational people know how to manage these inner voices to stay positive in their outlook.
Very often these inner voices are taking us back to a previous negative incident and constantly serving it up for us to view and relive the experience. As they are viewed repeatedly they are magnified and made to appear even worse than the original incident. They are continually feeding us that if we try things we will fail and so we become almost paralysed to take any action. Sometimes these voices don’t relate to any previous activity they are just there sapping our confidence to be able to take action and achieve our goals.
Self motivational people have great ways for dealing with these inner voices. One of the quickest and best ways to deal with them is to change the sound of them. Remember it’s your head you do have control of that space between your ears. So when you are replaying one of these negative sessions change the pitch of the sound up or down. Make it sound like a silly cartoon voice so squeaky your brain would have no respect for anything it says. Speed the voice up until it sounds as if it is talking gibberish. While doing this begin to notice the positive effect you are experiencing and how self motivational you have become. If you are seeing negative images with the voices then drain any colour from the image, shrink it down to a tiny dot and then kick it off into the distance.
Another great technique that self motivational people use to diffuse the impact of the negative words and images is to get them out of your head and onto paper. Write them all down as if you are sucking them out of your head. Once you have done that, if you have the facility then shred the piece of paper. Then take the shreds and burn them (in a safe way of course) and watch as you have destroyed these negative thoughts and see how empowered and self motivational you become.
If you have particularly negative thoughts which keep recurring then you may have to take them on head on. While relaxing close your eyes and think back to a time when you have dealt successfully with a negative situation. Just see, hear and feel the inner resources you used to deal with the situation. Now bring those images, sounds and feelings back to the current negative voices and know that you can apply them equally well to this situation. Believe me if you tell your subconscious that you have the resources to overcome them it will take on those inner voices and will find a solution. If you want some more ideas take a look at my self motivational booklist.
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