The Power of Your Self-Image
As of right now, what images of yourself do you hold inside your head? Do you see yourself as a success or a failure, as average or extraordinary, as rich or poor, as fat or in shape?
Your self-image is the person you see in your minds eye. When someone confronts you with a task, your self-image is what determines whether or not you believe you can perform that task adequately.
For example, say one of your goals is to lose weight – but it’s just not happening. You see a person on TV that’s as fit as you can be. “Yea right, I’ll never look like that, they probably just have amazing genes” or “I don’t have the time to exercise as much as they probably do” might be what you’d say to yourself.
By internally saying things like this, you are literally programming yourself for failure. You are telling your body that you can’t do a certain thing, and since your body is just like a command center, it obeys. This is why 90% of people who win the lottery end up becoming poor after a year or so. They have a self-image of themselves being average, poor people – so their body listens to them and they make bad choices in order to get back to being what they see themselves as.
Some people have a self-image that powerfully dictates the things they accomplish in life, such as world class athletes and millionaires, but unfortunately that same self-image destroys the lives of the majority of us.
You can think of your self-image as the mini devil and mini angel that sit on your shoulders – the 2 sides of your conscience so to speak. On one hand you have the devil, telling you to do all the “evil things” and on the other side is the angel, which directs you to do things that are purely good.
The only difference is that your self-image is one thing instead of 2. Each time you think a thought, you’re either making it a more positive self-image or a more negative one. Unfortunately most people think negative, self defeating thoughts all day long. Unless you’ve heard of this concept before and have practiced turning yourself into positive ones, chances are you’re thinking negative thoughts all day long too.
So How Do You Develop A Positive Self-Image?
By understanding that energy has a power of its own and that it can actually lead you into things you can visualize in your mind, you will be much better prepared to achieve the goals you want to achieve.
Here are a few steps you can try to enhance your self-image. It will be uncomfortable in the beginning and you’ll feel as if you’re actually lying to yourself, but give it time and it will become second nature. Instead of thinking self-defeating thoughts, you’ll be empowering yourself all day long.
1) Visualize - Visualizing something in your mind is probably the most powerful thing you can do to achieve a more positive self-image. Picture yourself as fit, successful, loving, stress-free, and peaceful. Your mind literally can’t tell the difference between reality and the images you hold in your head. There was a study in which sprinters were hooked up to machines which measured neuron firing and then did sprints. Later they did the same thing, except they only did the sprints in their minds (they visualized it). The amazing thing was, the exact same neurons fired as when they were sprinting for real! This same concept applies to energy your body creates when you visualize yourself becoming successful.
2) Become Aware Of Your Thoughts – If you can become aware of the thoughts you carry in your head and learn how to “catch” a negative thought and turn it into a positive one, you have a much greater chance of succeeding in life. You can practice this by simply paying attention to what you’re thinking throughout the day. The goal of this blog is to challenge people to experience the perfect life – one of health, wealth, and happiness. Therefore you must first think health, wealth, and happiness thoughts and make them the most frequent thought in your mind. Once again, after awhile this will become a habit but in the beginning it’s a little uncomfortable.
3) Take Action – When you’ve begun to understand the underlying principles of the first 2 steps, you must then take action. If you’ve been visualizing yourself losing that 30 pounds that won’t seem to come off and catching your negative thoughts and reaffirming to yourself that you can in fact lose the weight, you need to take action. Visualizing yourself losing weight and positive thinking is a vital step and will dramatically increase your results, but it can’t do anything unless you eat better and exercise more.
Don’t be like the majority of people in the world today. Take 5 or 10 minutes everyday to visualize yourself achieving your goals. There is energy in this world that we are just now beginning to notice, but they are still a mystery to us.
Most people are afraid to believe in something they’ve never experienced or seen. The best thing you can do is begin to become aware of what happens as you implement visualization and a strengthening of your self-image into your life. Notice that your cravings dramatically subside, you seem to get “lucky” more often, and positive coincidences seem to occur much more frequently.
Your perfect life awaits,
Jeremy
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