We all have an inner dialogue that takes place in our lives and accompanies us in our daily lives. The inner dialogue consists of thoughts that arise from the conscious and the unconscious such as beliefs and prejudices that provide a way for the mind to understand and analyze the experiences of everyday life. The same discourse can be happy and supportive or negative and defeated.
When our inner dialogue is positive it can contribute to us a lot like calming fears or creating a sense of self-confidence and personal empowerment of existing abilities. But the human tendency is towards a negative and judgmental internal dialogue, for example: "I will not succeed", "I don't deserve it", "I'm just bad", "I can't do anything right" are sentences that emphasize self-statement Negative, which over time will be perceived as reality and truth, while it is not. Negative inner dialogue does not necessarily represent reality and focuses on problems and weaknesses and ultimately, due to the repetition of negative self-statements, people are convinced that they are not good enough.
The inner dialogue we conduct with ourselves is of great importance about the way we think, act and feel. The way we speak to ourselves is of paramount importance. The words and emotion in which we choose to speak to ourselves affect us on different levels of physical, mental (cognitive), behavioral and emotional. Positive self-statements are used as a tool for self-healing, with a wonderful ability to change habits, patterns of thinking and action, coping with difficulties in a beneficial way, strengthening, empowering and more.
Positive statements or affirmations are basically self-affirmations based on self-help and are used to promote self-confidence and belief in self-abilities. Chances are that you have used a positive statement in the past such as: "I can do it" "I believe in myself" - these are examples of simple self-affirmations that help to divert attention from fantasies of failure to focusing on inner abilities and strengths, those we already have and those who we want to strengthen.
How does It Work? Our brain has the ability to be flexible and adapt to different situations throughout life, our brain and our way of thinking is sometimes confused between imagination and reality (the perception that a certain thought is true so it must exist in the real-reality, like deciding that someone thinks certain things about us without talking to it, the thought is Kind of imagination) and here it can be used to our advantage. By way of repetition positive statements about ourselves can encourage the mind to accept the same statements as facts.
It has been found in various studies that the use of positive statements has an effect on the physical aspect. Studies in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy have found that positive statements directly affected the way pain was treated as a result of treatment, reducing symptoms of nausea and vomiting. Two other studies have found that positive statements reduce headaches and back pain.
Positive statements have the effect of changing the way of thinking which is done by focusing on positive internal discourse. In a study investigating the effect of stress reduction techniques (meditation and breathing) and making positive statements and discussing the case of a girl who is afraid to sleep at night and has severe nightmares, afraid that something bad will happen to her family, it was found that after a period Emphasis on positive self-discourse.
By changing the way we think we can also expect behavioral change. Various studies have examined treatment techniques including positive statements in children with problematic behavior (9 and above).
Emotionally our inner dialogue and things we say to ourselves have an effect on our mood, directly. In a fascinating study which examined how children respond to different self-statements triggered by emotions like joy, anger, sadness and neutrality by dividing the children into different groups and each group was guided to self-statements out of the same emotions. The study found that the same statements that were made with an emotion of joy created joy in those children, the children who used angry statements, felt angry and so on.
Hence, I want to link what is written to your limiting beliefs regarding your ability to fulfill dreams or promote existing things. From a different point of view which is not researching, but more spiritual there are positive self-statements that connect with self-fulfillment ability like the law of attraction or manifestation - a belief that positive or negative thoughts lead to positive or negative experiences (accordingly) into our lives. The same theory claims that our thoughts are made up of pure energy which fills our being and relies on the fact that a certain energy will attract to it a similar and applicable energy to every area of our lives from health to relationships and livelihood.
Try affirmations like:
* I have the power to change my story
* My strength is greater than my difficulty
* I know what I'm worth
* I believe I can be anything I want to be
* I believe in myself and my abilities
Be aware of the thoughts running in your head and how you conduct your inner dialogue. When there is a strong and stable belief that we will succeed in a certain thing, our thoughts and actions will change accordingly.
