Don’t you think it’s time to lose your (old) mind and create a new one?
For some people, they’re already happy living a comfortable life.
A life inside their comfort zone, where everything is safe and easy to control.
For others… this isn’t the case.
It’s very common to be dissatisfied with your present life, and yet remain stuck in it because it’s become a habit.
Living in the past is also a great excuse for not making changes.
We can validate all of our negative experiences, traumas, and let-downs of the past when we continue to give them our energy.
You hand over your power to that thing and you deny yourself the chance to make any changes.
Essentially, most of us wake up every single day with the same problems.
Whether it’s money worries, work stress, health, family or relationship issues, we tend to circle back to the same pattern of thoughts over and over again.
All of us have had some kind of trauma, shock, or negative experience that at the time created strong emotional reactions.
These emotional reactions create chemicals, like adrenaline and cortisol in our bodies that we associate with those memories.
The problem occurs when we continue to reinforce those thoughts, memories, and subsequent chemical reactions as we circle back to the same thoughts time after time.
If we do that for long enough, it becomes our normalized state of being.
Think, for example, if you have experienced betrayal in a relationship.
You were badly hurt and upset for a long time.
If you continually think about the betrayal, you’re essentially thinking in the past.
Every memory that you have has an associated emotion, and so when you dwell on those bad memories, you also end up feeling that emotion all over again.
Your brain and your body therefore remain stuck in the past because you are essentially recreating those thoughts and feelings all over again.
If you are driven by those negative thoughts, you are keeping your body and brain in the past.
Remember that your brain cannot distinguish between memory or real life—whatever is creating those emotions at the time feels 100% real to your brain and body.
It’s a vicious cycle.
What happens, then?
You remain stuck in the past and recreate the same thing over and over again. You reaffirm your life as you know it to be.
How do you change?
You have to make an effort to change how you think.
You have to get out from under the weight of the past and find new thought patterns for long enough that you begin to turn around your regular state of being into something entirely different.
If your life is going pretty well, it’s a lot easier to forget the past and move on.
But if you are unhappy with the way things are going in your life, it’s a lot more likely that you are stuck in old emotional cycles, being driven by those negative thought processes.
There are many times in our lives when we don’t realize we are living based on our past experiences.
It takes time and effort to turn around unconscious choices, thoughts, and ways of speaking.
For example, if feeling stressed is familiar to us, we might see how we are always saying we are stressed, acting stressed, speaking stressed, reinforcing to others that we are stressed, and probably hanging out with other people who are stressed too!
If we are always stressed, then not being one is going to feel totally alien to us.
It’s going to feel wrong because it is so unfamiliar.
That’s why this work takes conscious effort.
You have to literally teach your mind new ways of thinking and feeling.
You have to allow your mind to think in entirely new ways.
Choose Differently and Create Healthy Thought Patterns
Here are some tips to help you start changing your life by making different choices and choosing different thoughts:
Create a Thought Journal
Write down all of your negative thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and beliefs that you no longer want to live by.
Make sure you catch yourself and the way you tend to speak:
- What words do you use?
- What things do you always say?
Be mindful of these every single day so that you are able to stop yourself from just repeating the old, familiar ways of thinking.
In your thought journal, write down new positive thoughts, affirmations, and beliefs that you do want to keep as a habit.
Take time every day to write these down and repeat them in your mind until your brain becomes familiar with them.
Meditate
Every single day, take time to meditate and teach your body new emotions and thoughts.
Sit quietly until you genuinely feel these new sensations in your body.
The practice of actually feeling like a new person is the key to change.
Imagine
Before you begin each day, prime your brain by imagining how your day is going to unfold.
For example, see yourself being relaxed, moving through your day getting everything done easily, and being a happy, positive, and communicative person.
Essentially, you are hardwiring into your brain new ways of thinking, feeling, and doing.
If you put in the work every day and do it with energy and passion, you will change your reality.
Creating a new future begins with making a different choice.
If you want to step out of your past, you have to be prepared to change the way you think.
The unknown future is not scary, it is full of magic and everything you wish to create!
It is about time to grab this chance. You now have the power.
Use this FREE Thought Journal to begin your journey to creating healthy thought patterns.
The question is… will you use it?