It is undeniable that everyone aims to stand out throughout his or her lives. However, sometimes, you choose your path out of fear disguised as practicality. What you really want may seem impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect. You never find the right time, right money, or any other excuse, so you never dare to ask the universe for it.
We all must have tried keeping a daily journal or a diary in our lives sometimes or the other. Haven’t we? However, how many of us can’t maintain it properly? How many of us are indeed able to express our feelings and thoughts on paper or in a computer journal? Only a handful of us. This happens due to the lack of words and the ability to covert our thoughts into written matter. Let us look at some ideas that may help.
The urge to eat a whole bar of chocolate in bed. Hitting the snooze button for that extra 5 minutes of sleep. Going out with friends instead of studying. Buying things that you cannot really afford now. The urge to spend all of your time with your partner instead of working on your career.
Let us be honest, our past is a part of who we are. It is a part of our present even, as it has made us who we are today. The fears we have from past relationships influence how we build relationships today. Past failures are like ghosts who haunt us and prevent us from living our lives. We have to be rid of these fears in order to start living. It is time for us to face our demons.
It is not weird for most of us to keep ongoing dialogues within our heads. These dialogues could be range from giving instructions to ourselves, observations about what has been going on around us, or it just could be what is usually referred to as self-talk. Self-talk is your inner voice, the internal narrative that happens inside your head, which you may have spent much time thinking about it. Interestingly enough, our self-talk can actually have a significant impact on the way we see ourselves and the world around us more than we realize. Let us find out how!
The word affirmation derives its meaning from the word affirm to imply that something is right. It includes sentences that aim to affect both the subconscious and conscious mind. Hence, they can affect the environment, habits, thinking patterns, and behavior.
Composing the affirmation can involuntarily and automatically bring up related mental images that can motivate, energize, or inspire. The resultant mental images and claims can get engraved on the subconscious mind to change the reactions, actions, habits, and behavior.
Have you ever had a day when you simply couldn’t focus on your work because your mind was fixated on something terrible that had happened in another part of the world? Or maybe you got into an argument with someone on social media and it left your mind in a bitter state, making you unable to do anything productive?
Whether it is the business world, the political arena, or marriages, there is always disagreement or conflict: “Perception is the truth.” This proverb is often used to justify an opinion that is not objectively justified or unrelated to reality. It is used as a catalyst to win over others in accepting one’s preferred reality. At the most philosophical level, this proverb creates a sense of relativity (think thinly) in absolute contexts (think the world is flat).