Self-talk is the inner talk which you do with yourself it’s a stream of thoughts which comes in your head continuously and most of the time it is a negative self-talk with fear and doubts which keep you away from doing things in a better way so here the power of positive self-talk requires so let’s learn about the positive self-talk and how it works
What is a positive self-talk ?
Positive self-talk is a process of talking deliberately with yourself in your head but if you are already a positive person than your self-talk with be more positive but most of the people subconsciously think only negative thoughts always so positive self-talk is required to change your thoughts pattern so you cannot think negatively about yourself and always change that negative thought in to something positive
What are the main benefits of positive self-talk ?
1. Positive Self Talk Improves your mental Health
2. Improves your self-esteem and reduce your stress and keep you focused
3. Increases confidence in yourself
4. Kills negativity from your thoughts
5. Make you healthy because of less stress in mind
6. You will be more satisfied and happy in your life
If you keep control on your thought process and think always positive thoughts then you will become more and more healthier and also you will leave the bad habits like drinking and smoking slowly slowly
Main thing is you will kill the stress with your positivity and stress is the main reason for your failure in life so for that positive thinking is necessary because negative thoughts are giving you nothing and only killing your confidence slowly slowly
Then why to keep negativity in life
Let’s discuss few important things about negative thinking
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What is Negative Thinking ?
Negative thinking is when you think continuously about something with fear in your mind and the main problem of such thinking is that it will stop you from doing that thing and you will never know that it was not that hard stuff to do
Negative thinking can increase your mental illness and also make you a depressed person
What are the side effects of negative thinking ?
Increased Stress level
Low self esteem
Low confidence in life
Increase of hypertension
Bad quality of life
It affects your age and makes you look more older
Affects your hair health also
What are the examples of negative thinking?
Everyone work less at office and i work more
My salary is less than others
What if i get fired from my job
What if i don’t get increment this year
Why bad things happen with me always
Why my friends are not that loyal with me
What are the examples of positive self-talk ?
Every good things are coming to me
I have a nice and loyal friends
I have a nice job and i am enjoying my work
My superiors respect me always and they appreciate my work
I am so thankful to god for my physical and mental health
I am so grateful for my family
And many more are there, you can maintain a diary for writing your positive self-talk so you will better understand how many more gratitude’s you have in your life
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How To Do Positive Self Talk Daily
Set Reminders
Set reminders for four to five times a day as a alert signal for yourself to remind you about your thought pattern because negative thoughts will flow automatically in your mind and for stopping this you will require reminders
In starting it will be hard for you to talk with yourself but if you will practice a positive self-talk daily then slowly slowly your thought patterns will start changing
Reminders will help you to keep an eye on your thoughts
Reminders like have you counted todays gratitude in your life
And Count your blessings and Be your best friend today
Track Your Thoughts
Not everyday is good and not everyday is same few days are very bad and unexpected events also happens in your daily routine life
So you need to track your thoughts and apply positive self-talks here specially on this kind of day where things have not happened as you have planned
Because one negative thought will lead to another and you will again start a stream of negative thoughts in your head so it is necessary to track and start a positive self-talk
Read Self Help Books on Positivity
There are so many successful legends who reads books on daily basis and they always give their success credits to the books
Books on positive thinking will help you change your thoughts in a more positive way, you can also watch motivational videos to boost your power of positive self-talk
Because something extra is always nice
You can read motivational quotes also
Reading books will have a positive effect on your mind and you will not think negative thoughts oftenly
Make books your best friend
Affirmation Talk in front of mirror
Talk with yourself in front of mirror say positive things to yourself, self-affirmations in front of mirror like
You are the best
You can do this
Be your best version today
You are the one who can do this
Let’s do it today
You look best today
I am the best and i love myself, I can do anything in this world, I am a hardworking personality, I am a positive thinker, I will complete this task by today itself
I am a winner
This kind of self-affirmation increases your positivity and make you the winner because after few days you will become the best person who thinks only positive thoughts and also can acts on that
Take Action on your positive self-talk
The power of positive self-talk is so much important When you use words like i am the winner and i will do this by today then you are sending the signal to your mind that you are making an announcement for yourself that you will do this
But if you just keep on announcing to yourself that i will do this and i will do that and then after four to five times you will not act on it then it will become your habit of just saying it and not doing it
So take actions on your positive self-talk because when you will complete something from your list or at-least you will do something what you say in your self-talks then your confidence will rise
Because even if you did one thing out of five then also your confidence will boost because you will think that at-least you started on taking actions now
Whether it is a positive thinking actions like i will not think negative thoughts today and i will think only positive things today or taking an action and completing something
Maintain a positive self-talk journal
Maintaining a positive self-talk journal can help you track your thoughts on a paper, in today’s world we do multiple works
Everyone is busy in multitasking and because of this busy life we forget about our own self about our thoughts and about our main motive in this world
Maintaining a journal can keep you aware of your thoughts that on which day what you were thinking and how was your mood
In future also you will know when you go through the pages of your journal about the positive self-talk that what changes you need to make in your thought process
Conclusion
Stay positive and apply positive self-talk in your daily life and also keep an eye that on which events your negative thinking triggers and apply positive self-talk on such specific events so your daily life style gets improved without stress in your life
