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How To Learn Positive Self Talk?
How To Be Kind To Myself
The idea of replacing positive self talk is used in
the Lightning Process.
Please note, however, that the example of positive self talk used below is my own.
I often felt alone and frightened during the years of illness. I learned to talk to myself in a positive way, how to be kind to myself, how to build a sense of positive self worth. This work developed into many books of self dialogue which I am yet to publish. To learn to be kind to ourselves is essential for our sense of well being. It certainly contributes to emotional healing, mental healing and spiritual healing. I believe it can also help physical healing.
Action Point:How To Self Coach - How To Be Kind To Myself Whilst Living With Chronic Illness - Does anyone say anything about you having an illness that annoys you?
NB. If you do not have an illness, just think of a time when someone says something about you that annoys you.
- Stop and think: Do you say the same thing to yourself?
- Which words or phrase would you like to hear instead?
Which words would help you to feel safer, supported, encouraged and motivated?
- If you were your own best friend, what would you say to yourself?
- Write down the words you come up with.
- Adapt them as needed to be even better matched to what you need.
- If your positive self talk uses childlike words, this can be good.
Why can it be powerful to use childlike words when using self talk?
Because often we have been wounded by being told off or told things about ourselves when we were young.
- An example of positive self talk: how to identify a negative message and develop the positive remedy:
Perhaps, as a result of what you were told or shown, you learned to believe
"I shouldn't be ill.
It's not convenient.
I haven't time to be ill."
If these are messages you learned, it may help to say to yourself something like the following:
"It's ok to be ill."
"It's not your fault you are ill." "I have time to be with you and look after you.
I will make time.
It is easy for me to make time for you, because you are important to me and your health is important to me."
- If certain words produce a strong emotional response, please consider that you might need to hear them or a variation of them.
For example, for myself the words above still produce a strong emotional response in me. The words touch me.
- Say your words to yourself. You know what you need someone to say to you.
- It can be powerful to use positive self talk whilst looking in the mirror. You will find this refered to sometimes as mirror-work.
Mirror work is spoken about in the book You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, available from...
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- Be willing to be your own best friend, your biggest supporter.
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If you are living with illness, you are demonstrating amazing strength every day. If you are on this website, you are probably keeping the hope of recovery alive. This takes such courage and perseverance. Well done. Perhaps you are finding spiritual wisdom in this time of illness. This is a gift to everyone. How wonderful. Stop and thank yourself for what you are doing to keep your heart open at this time. Well done. What do you need to hear right NOW.
Say it to yourself and start to be your own best friend.
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