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Warrior Mind Podcast – Ep: 259 Self-Mastery and Human Potential 15 min
I have showed myself “naked” to the world on my last blog when admitting my depression. It was hard, tough and painful. I felt naked, trapped and exposed. You don’t know how many times I tried to press the “Publish” button but couldn’t do it!! I was terrified. These negative thoughts were at the forefront of my brain doing their brilliant job as usual. Making me feel like crap! Right after clicking “Publish” I felt drained. I just stepped out of my office and went to chill in front of TV. I recovered quickly though because I had trained my mind to be positive after my so many setbacks. I am able to shift my mindset to positivity and optimism. Yep! Just like that. How I did I do that?
“Very simply.”
Acknowledging our home truths
We know that showing our utmost weaknesses when blogging or talking to a loved one is a double pain because we not only state in bold that we are weak but we feel these weaknesses deeply in our bones. We are presenting our all self, with no layers, utterly naked!!! And the worst part is the deep wounded feeling of not knowing how long we are going to be in that state.
The reason for that feeling is because we rarely do unveil ourselves to the point where we are true to ourselves. Here we have acknowledged our own difficulties and know that it has to be done for us to move on. Even though deep down we wish someone somewhere, a little voice would tell us to just cover up our home truths with jokes, sarcasm or distractions. Unfortunately there is no point in that because the feeling dissipates itself but never leaves.
The right way is to for one to expose our weaknesses and for two to realise that it is a process. And for three, we must ask ourselves the right questions, the questions that will make us cringe or sigh deeply.
1stquestion: What is wrong with me? This is too negative even though home truths do hurt as we say. Selecting positive words when speaking to ourselves helps immensely. It’s best as it encourages us to answer questions with more thoughtfulness: “What is blocking me?”
2nd question: “Why is it blocking me?” Acknowledging the reasons for each block is already a step forward in the recovery process.
3rd question:What can I do to unblock it??” The solution might not be evident in the first instance but after some soul searching or sleeping on it, the answer comes to us and THEN this is when you need all of the positivity left in you to resurface. Can you act on the solution you have found? Many of us, just crawl back to our initial state: let’s get dressed, put lots of layers and smother these weaknesses the best we can and forget about them. It’s just plainly too hard to cope with because it just feels like a smack on the face. SLAP! I know.
The reality is that the truth is too big to swallow. So why not take our time to digest it bit by bit? There is no rush.
4th question: There is no question 4. The next step is Action.
“Be proactive and sort that block out. Get rid of it!!”
The positive Phase
And now we enter another phase. The positive phase. When we enter that path we feel more capable to crunch that block. Why?? Because our mindset has shifted from these negative thoughts that were holding us down. Our positive mindset is in progress. It’s not completely positive far from that but it is in working progress and that’s fine. In fact our positive mind takes a while to grow but it is growing. Surely and steadily. Whereas negative thoughts are static. Yes! They reside in the comfort zone of our brain. In the floor, the walls, the ceiling. They are there and happy to stay there. No shift. Couch potato! They deepen the cracks to make themselves comfier inside our brains. They invite more negative thoughts to come along and have a couch potato party inside our mind. Yep. Now you understand why we have that constant negative chattering in our head!! Jeez! They are so difficult to get rid of, so tough to be removed. Steer away from the Couch Potato party!
A complete change of mindset is necessary and it takes time to get rid of these negative thoughts all because they are creep! Yep, they creep and keep quiet for a while and at our most vulnerable hour, BANG!! Jump right in our brain exposing a banner with a gooey negative message written in bold! And they go for the worst thought, the one that is the most difficult to extract. That’s why it is such a long process.
We do succeed in the end though.
“Perseverance, commitment, practice and patience are the keywords to success.”
A Positive mindset
Our Happy Thoughts Floating in Bliss
Our happy thoughts which are always in movement unless floating in bliss when we are content, forms our positive mindset. The more they manifest themselves to us the happier we feel. Consequently, our mind is open to all opportunities that come along our way and we are so excited that we don’t know which one to pick. We get full of ideas, we get excited, euphoric, incontrollable, invincible, ready to conquer the world! Ready to conquer our fears! Ready to be the best that we can be! And those feelings add other layers of happy thoughts exploding in our brain, becoming another party: The Bliss Party!
After all of that, it is impossible to deny that:
“A positive mindset only sees possibilities but a negative mindset sees problems.”
The solutions (See how positive that word is!! :D)
Feelings!! Yes as simple as that. Feel the emotion first.
How??
“See everything you do as an achievement however small that is”.
We are having a stretch before getting up. Take 10 seconds. Breathe. And feel the emotion. Beautiful yawn-Happy.
We are having a shower with our favourite shower gel. Take 10 seconds. Breathe. And feel the emotion. Beautiful scent-Happy.
We made ourselves a healthy breakfast. Take 10 seconds. Breathe. And feel the emotion. Satisfied-Happy.
These are just examples where feelings that result from our actions will help us add more layers of positiveness and contribute to shift our mindset to a positive mode.
Let’s get started by celebrating our own achievements our way:
Write your instant achievements in a diary
record your instant achievements daily and then listen to them to reinforce your positive mindset
if you are an artist, draw the object, the action that will anchor positivity when looking at your drawings
list your instant achievements in a notebook
Just make sure these achievements are part of your daily routine, are small and achievable instantly, not in the next hour or end of the day.
Because we are littering our brain with positivity. Remember these negative thoughts have invaded our brain so much that we cannot see the flooring, the walls, the ceiling. We need space now. Someone has to go. Period. They are. Period. We, Positive Thoughts, have just arrived we cannot be leaving already!! These negative thoughts are not useful, they are a nuisance and pollute our brain. Simple. Oh yes, we know that they will try to smother our positive thoughts, oh yes they will try to chase them out. And for that they will have to get their butt out of the cracks they have created in the first place!! Ah, ah! Remember that our positive thoughts are always in movement and right now if these negative thoughts are in survival mode, they will definitely move their butt to crush any positive thoughts in their way!! But that is the beauty of it!! Hold on! Listen to that!!
“A negative thought away from its crack is a negative thought partially removed.”
How come?? Simple. All the negative thoughts can do is slump themselves in a spot and wait. However our positive thoughts are so smart and always in movement, they would have already spotted the negative thought spot and taken its place when being chased! Yep. Easy isn’t it! That’s the way it works. That is why it is vital to litter our brain with instant positive thoughts.
The more the merrier. More positivity = less negativity. Little becomes big.
So bring it on!
“Let’s get these instant achievements done and our mind will be ever so grateful!!”
Your positive actions
We have understood how feelings and instant achievements can help us start shifting our mind. Listing your positive actions has a tremendous effect on your mindset and that’s great because that is the start of your process to a positive mindset. So go and practice. Be kind to yourself and be patient. Commit yourself to nothing but a positive mindset and persevere in your daily positive actions.
Do you know any other ways to record your instant achievements?
How did you manage to recover after exposing yourself?
What are your strategies for keeping a positive mindset?
we know that they will try to smother our positive thoughts, oh yes they will try to chase them out. And for that they will have to get their butt out of the cracks they have created in the first place!! Ah, ah! Remember that our positive thoughts are always in movement and right now if these negative thoughts are in survival mode, they will definitely move their butt to crush any positive thoughts in their way!! But that is the beauty of it!! Hold on! Listen to that!!
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