How to Program Yourself For Success!

Lets talk for a moment on your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the power center that directs your energy. It is responsible for regulating your breathing, your heartbeat, your blood flow and all other seemingly automatic functions that keep you alive.

Your subconscious responds to the signals and the messages you give it. If you repeatedly tell yourself you are fat, ugly, worthless and a failure, you are unknowingly giving it a roadmap. You are telling your subconscious mind this is what you think you are and the subconscious always says yes! It isn't bias. It just follows directions much as a computer program does. The subconscious doesn't have the ability to say “hey wait a minute, that's not true about you!” Only you have that ability. You have to consciously decide who you are and then let your subconscious know it. You do this by giving it pictures and images as well as positive words.

Imagine going through a drive through at a fast food restaurant, for lack of a better example. You get up to the microphone and you say, I'll have two cheeseburgers, a large fries and small coke. When you get to the drive through window you will (hopefully) have two cheeseburgers, a large fries and a small coke. The subconscious does the same thing the attendant at the window does, it fills your order. It doesn't see you and say, “you know, you really ought to be having a salad, we have some great new salads, are you sure you don't want to change your order?” Your subconscious doesn't look out for your best interest any more than the fast food attendant does. He's just doing his job. It's your job to look out for your best interest and to order accordingly.

We influence our subconscious mind by the words we speak, the thoughts we think, the mental images we entertain, the feelings we have and the actions we take. If you are to be successful at this program this is one of the most important things to understand.

Feed Yourself Positive Thoughts

One of the first habits you need to focus on breaking, if you have it, is thinking negative thoughts and speaking negative words about yourself and your body. When you look in the mirror you may not like what you see. You might think “Jane, you are disgusting! Look at you! You're fat, you're ugly, you're worthless and I hate you!” If you even begin to catch yourself going there in your mind STOP! You need to learn to interrupt negative self talk and CANCEL it out.

Imagine getting in a fight with a friend or someone you love and you say some hurtful things. You don't really mean them but you say them out of your own hurt and anger. Later when you've made up you might say “Hey, I didn't really mean those things I said.” You need to get into the habit of treating yourself with the same respect as you would someone else you love. After all, if you can't love yourself, who can you love?

Get into the habit of speaking kindly to yourself and being your own best friend. You are in this together and to have the ultimate success it is important to be on your own team!

Kaleah LaRoche is a Health and Weight Loss Coach and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in helping others transform the quality of their lives through healthy diet, exercise and positive programming. You can learn more about her work by visiting her website: www.healthinspirations.com

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