September 3, 2023 • 11 mins
Hey beautiful,
Have you ever been trapped in a spiral of negative thoughts that won’t let up?
Remunerative thinking that won't stop?
It can be terrifying....and it can also be stopped!
Today, we're sharing some invaluable insights that I learned from spiritual guide, Teal Swan, on how to turn your negative thinking on its head.
You’ll be amazed at how simply voicing your negative thoughts can help snap you out of the unending loop, sparking a new perspective on your body and its incredible daily feats.
This isn’t merely another inspirational talk – it's a genuine call to action to nudge you towards self-love and positivity.
Share this episode with those who could use a little positivity boost. We're not just reshaping thoughts here, but beliefs and lives.
With Love Always,
Em xx
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast.
This is the place where you getto feel inspired and empowered
to step into your very best life.
Hey, hey, it's Em, and welcometo this episode of season two of
the Becoming your Warriorpodcast.
(00:21):
This season is completely andutterly dedicated to the subject
of self-worth and really comingback into your worthiness and
living a worthy life.
Living a life of high value, alife of high self-esteem, of
high confidence and just goingafter the things that you want.
Today's episode is calledBreaking the Pattern of Negative
(00:45):
Thinking, and I really thoughtthis was important because on
this journey, you know I can begiving you tools and sharing
some stories with you in eachepisode about how to move
forward, but we really have tochallenge that idea of you know,
from time to time, the negativethinking is going to come up.
Life isn't.
It's not like you just startplanning that it's all going to
(01:08):
be like this and it's allsunshine and roses.
It isn't that.
There are going to bechallenges on the way and it's
going to sometimes take you intoa place of negative thinking
about yourself.
So negative thoughts really areso powerful because, as I've
mentioned on a few differentepisodes before, your thinking
in repetition becomes beliefs.
(01:28):
So let's say, every singlemorning I wake up and I'm like I
am the sexiest girl on thisplanet and I say that over and
over and over in my mind, inrepetition over a period of time
.
If I say that to myself 20times a day, I'm the sexiest
girl on this planet over andover, and over and over and over
(01:48):
, and I say that for sort of 21days, which is, you know, the
average time it takes to reallybuild a habit.
But that's my morning routine.
This is actually a good one touse.
Then what starts happening ismy behavior is going to start
reflecting that.
I'm going to start behavinglike somebody who knows that
she's sexy.
I'm going to start acting, I'mgoing to start talking like
(02:10):
somebody who's sexy.
I'm just going to start talkingwith this area of like sexy
confidence.
The thing is, when you are in anegative pattern of thought,
what you're doing is you'rewaking up each day being like
I'm so unattractive you know, mybody's gross, I don't like the
way that I look and you'resaying that in repetition to
(02:31):
yourself over and over and over.
And I'm just using body as anexample because I think most
people can relate to that.
But you know, you might besaying things like oh, I'm never
going to get that promotion atwork.
If you're telling yourself,let's use to use that.
If you're saying to yourself,I'm never going to get that
promotion at work over and overand over again.
Or you're saying to yourself,I'm a really bad parent, I'm a
really bad parent, I'm aterrible parent, you're going to
(02:53):
start believing it.
Repetition, repetition ofthought leads to beliefs.
Beliefs lead to behavior.
So you're going to startbehaving as that person who
believes that about themselves.
So we really need to nip thisin the bud.
We really, really need to startnipping it in the bud.
So a really good way that I'velearned over the like, on and
(03:16):
off over the last few years butI've just kind of had it
reconfirm back to me is actuallyby a spiritual healer by tea
called teal swan.
Some of you might have heard ofher.
She's one of those people likeI find her fascinating, but she
divides people.
So you know, I reckon go onYouTube and have a little look
at some of her stuff and seewhat you think.
(03:37):
But one of the things that shesays is when you find yourself
in that pattern of thinking.
So if you find yourself in thatpattern of thinking, being like
you know, I'm just a really crapperson, I'm a terrible friend,
I'm not good enough, I'm nevergoing to be good enough, you
know, comparing yourself tosomebody else, what you need to
do is stop what you're doing andyou need to say it out loud.
(03:59):
So let's say, for example, Iwas saying every day, my body's
gross.
Okay, so in my head I'm saying,I'm looking in the mirror and
I'm going my body's disgusting,my body's disgusting, I'm gross,
I'm gross, I'm gross.
And I'm just saying that in myhead.
What you do is you say it outloud.
You say I'm thinking in my headover and over and over again
(04:19):
that my body is gross.
And once you hear yourself saythese negative thoughts out loud
, it's almost like it.
It kind of shocks you out ofwhat you're letting go on inside
your mind.
When it's in your mind, it'slike in you know, it's like a
goldfish balls just going roundand round and round and round
and round and round.
When you actually stop it inits tracks by verbalizing and
(04:42):
saying out loud, but also likealmost saying, in a way where
you're saying the repetitivethought, like even if you said
this whole thing.
The repetitive thoughts that Ihave every single day Are that
my body is gross, when in actualfact, my body is incredible.
I can walk out of the house, orI can get out of the house.
(05:03):
I can do a push up if I want to.
I can, you know, I canmultitask.
I can, you know, put makeup on.
I can, you know, comb my hair.
I can pick clothes and likebutton up clothes.
Like your body's absolutelyincredible.
And just because we have thislike exterior idea of what our
bodies should be, it doesn'tmean that you get to stand in
(05:25):
front of the mirror and tellyour body that it's gross.
It's not.
It's absolutely incredible.
Yes, there might be somechanges that you want to make to
it, but they're not going tohappen by you looking at your
body and saying you're gross.
It's not going to happen.
You're going to start believingthat you're gross and that's
going to make you feel reallylow and that's going to lower
your vibration.
That's going to make you feellike crap.
(05:45):
That's going to make you feelMake you feel unworthy.
It's going to make you feelunlovable.
It's going to make you feellike you've got to compare
yourself.
It's going to make you feellike you're not enough.
It's pretty exhausting, huh.
So by saying out loud thenegative thought and actually
really clearly saying in asentence not saying to myself,
not saying out loud I'm gross ormy body is gross, saying the
(06:07):
repetitive thoughts that I'vehad for the last 20 minutes have
been that my body is gross, canyou see the power in that?
And when you say out loud, youbreak the pattern, you break it
in its tracks and you actuallysee it for what it is, which is
just A series of thoughtsspinning around your head and
you stop those thoughts.
Now what would be really goodat this stage and just using
(06:30):
that example of like my body isgross or whatever else, is to
actually then change thatcompletely and be like my body
can do x y z.
You know, this morning alreadymy body has shown me that it can
do x y z.
This afternoon I'm going to goand do this and my body is going
to allow me to do this.
(06:51):
And when you actually startpositively reinforcing things or
saying, every day my body isgetting stronger, every day,
like the movement I'm doingmakes me feel good.
Every day when I exercise ormove my body, I'm getting
dopamine and that makes me feelgood Every day.
I'm just starting to see subtlechanges in my strength.
Every day, when I choose to eatlike really great, healthy,
(07:13):
beautiful, fresh vegetables andfruits and healthy things that
you know this planet provides, Ifeel better.
I can feel my skin clearing up,like you know.
I can see the positive impactthat these tiny little habits
that I do every single day nowI'm making on my body and it
feels great, feels great to knowthat I'm eating well.
(07:35):
It feels great to know that I'mlike prioritizing my health.
Can you see the difference,like when you start talking to
yourself in a really positiveway and just being like I'm
being really patient and I knowit's coming.
I know the body that I want tocreate is coming and I'm really
excited about that.
Can you see, like how, if youwoke up in the morning and you
said those things to yourself inthe mirror instead Number one
(07:57):
how good you would feel, but,secondly, how your body is going
to respond to those newthoughts?
Because, as you program them inover and over and over again,
what you're doing is creatingnew beliefs.
I'm getting healthier.
I love exercising, I love thefeeling of exercising and moving
my body because it's dopamineand you start to create new
(08:18):
beliefs.
You start to create new beliefs.
I love exercise.
I love exercise.
I love eating.
Well, I love, you know, eatinglots of fresh fruit and veggies.
I really love being healthy.
I love how my skin starting tolook and you start to say those
kind of things to yourself.
That is, that's amazing.
That's the direction you wantto go in create new beliefs, new
(08:39):
thoughts on repetition.
Create new beliefs in your bodyand then your body can do
nothing else but follow, becauseit knows that you love it.
Follow the excitement, followthe joy, follow the bliss.
And when I'm talking aboutexercise, I know for some people
there's so many things aroundthat you know that it can, you
know, hold you back.
It can be like, oh, but youknow I don't want to go to the
(09:01):
gym.
I'm not talking about going tothe gym and talking about moving
your body.
Go for a walk if you don't feelcomfortable with your body.
Go for a walk when it's just alittle bit darker.
You know if that's going to getyou started, if that's going to
get you moving, if that's goingto get you out of the house,
like just, you know, in thoselittle niggly things that come
in and kind of prevent you frommoving forward.
(09:22):
Just recognize them.
It's just resistance.
It's just resistance and you'vegot the power now to move
through that because you knowit's just that fog.
It's just that fog in the wayand you can happily just
recognize it for what it is.
So my tip for today is, when youfind yourself in that pattern
of negative thinking, say it outloud and state it.
(09:43):
Go the thoughts that I've beenhaving for the last five minutes
and not doing me any good.
And then this, this, this, I'mcomparing myself to this person,
this person, this person, andit's not healthy for me and I'm
ending it now and instead I'mgoing to start thinking this,
this, this.
But when you verbalize it andsay out, you're breaking that
(10:04):
pattern and that gives you theopportunity to actually go.
What's the opposite of what I'mthinking and that's what I'm
going to start thinking now.
So breaking the pattern ofnegative thinking is very easy
to do.
When you say it out loud, breakthat pattern, and that gives
you the opportunity and thespace to then do a bit of a
rethink and actually go.
(10:25):
I want to create new beliefs andto do that I need to start
repeating really positivethoughts towards myself, and I'm
starting that right now.
And it's these changes thatyou're making every single day,
these new thoughts, these newbeliefs, that are going to get
you moving towards taking thataligned action.
Your body is going to startresponding.
You're going to start makingdifferent decisions, different
choices, and that's going to getyou moving towards self-esteem.
(10:48):
That's going to get you movingtowards more confidence.
That's going to get you movingtowards self-worth, which is
what this is all about.
So put it into practice today.
Make the commitment today tobreak that pattern of negative
thinking, say it out loud, endit in its tracks and then start
thinking about new, repetitivethoughts that are going to get
(11:09):
you believing in yourself andmoving forward, sending you so
much love as always.
Have the most amazing morning,afternoon, evening, wherever you
are, as you continue yourjourney towards self-worth and
to becoming your warrior.
Thanks for listening today andif this episode helped or
(11:34):
inspired you, just remember toshare it to friends or family
who could also use someinspiration today.
We are all about sharing thelove.
Welcome to the Becoming your Warrior podcast.
This is the place where you getto feel inspired and empowered
to step into your very best life.
Hey, hey, it's Em, and welcometo this episode of season two of
the Becoming your Warriorpodcast.
(00:21):
This season is completely andutterly dedicated to the subject
of self-worth and really comingback into your worthiness and
living a worthy life.
Living a life of high value, alife of high self-esteem, of
high confidence and just goingafter the things that you want.
Today's episode is calledBreaking the Pattern of Negative
(00:45):
Thinking, and I really thoughtthis was important because on
this journey, you know I can begiving you tools and sharing
some stories with you in eachepisode about how to move
forward, but we really have tochallenge that idea of you know,
from time to time, the negativethinking is going to come up.
Life isn't.
It's not like you just startplanning that it's all going to
(01:08):
be like this and it's allsunshine and roses.
It isn't that.
There are going to bechallenges on the way and it's
going to sometimes take you intoa place of negative thinking
about yourself.
So negative thoughts really areso powerful because, as I've
mentioned on a few differentepisodes before, your thinking
in repetition becomes beliefs.
(01:28):
So let's say, every singlemorning I wake up and I'm like I
am the sexiest girl on thisplanet and I say that over and
over and over in my mind, inrepetition over a period of time
.
If I say that to myself 20times a day, I'm the sexiest
girl on this planet over andover, and over and over and over
(01:48):
, and I say that for sort of 21days, which is, you know, the
average time it takes to reallybuild a habit.
But that's my morning routine.
This is actually a good one touse.
Then what starts happening ismy behavior is going to start
reflecting that.
I'm going to start behavinglike somebody who knows that
she's sexy.
I'm going to start acting, I'mgoing to start talking like
(02:10):
somebody who's sexy.
I'm just going to start talkingwith this area of like sexy
confidence.
The thing is, when you are in anegative pattern of thought,
what you're doing is you'rewaking up each day being like
I'm so unattractive you know, mybody's gross, I don't like the
way that I look and you'resaying that in repetition to
(02:31):
yourself over and over and over.
And I'm just using body as anexample because I think most
people can relate to that.
But you know, you might besaying things like oh, I'm never
going to get that promotion atwork.
If you're telling yourself,let's use to use that.
If you're saying to yourself,I'm never going to get that
promotion at work over and overand over again.
Or you're saying to yourself,I'm a really bad parent, I'm a
really bad parent, I'm aterrible parent, you're going to
(02:53):
start believing it.
Repetition, repetition ofthought leads to beliefs.
Beliefs lead to behavior.
So you're going to startbehaving as that person who
believes that about themselves.
So we really need to nip thisin the bud.
We really, really need to startnipping it in the bud.
So a really good way that I'velearned over the like, on and
(03:16):
off over the last few years butI've just kind of had it
reconfirm back to me is actuallyby a spiritual healer by tea
called teal swan.
Some of you might have heard ofher.
She's one of those people likeI find her fascinating, but she
divides people.
So you know, I reckon go onYouTube and have a little look
at some of her stuff and seewhat you think.
(03:37):
But one of the things that shesays is when you find yourself
in that pattern of thinking.
So if you find yourself in thatpattern of thinking, being like
you know, I'm just a really crapperson, I'm a terrible friend,
I'm not good enough, I'm nevergoing to be good enough, you
know, comparing yourself tosomebody else, what you need to
do is stop what you're doing andyou need to say it out loud.
(03:59):
So let's say, for example, Iwas saying every day, my body's
gross.
Okay, so in my head I'm saying,I'm looking in the mirror and
I'm going my body's disgusting,my body's disgusting, I'm gross,
I'm gross, I'm gross.
And I'm just saying that in myhead.
What you do is you say it outloud.
You say I'm thinking in my headover and over and over again
(04:19):
that my body is gross.
And once you hear yourself saythese negative thoughts out loud
, it's almost like it.
It kind of shocks you out ofwhat you're letting go on inside
your mind.
When it's in your mind, it'slike in you know, it's like a
goldfish balls just going roundand round and round and round
and round and round.
When you actually stop it inits tracks by verbalizing and
(04:42):
saying out loud, but also likealmost saying, in a way where
you're saying the repetitivethought, like even if you said
this whole thing.
The repetitive thoughts that Ihave every single day Are that
my body is gross, when in actualfact, my body is incredible.
I can walk out of the house, orI can get out of the house.
(05:03):
I can do a push up if I want to.
I can, you know, I canmultitask.
I can, you know, put makeup on.
I can, you know, comb my hair.
I can pick clothes and likebutton up clothes.
Like your body's absolutelyincredible.
And just because we have thislike exterior idea of what our
bodies should be, it doesn'tmean that you get to stand in
(05:25):
front of the mirror and tellyour body that it's gross.
It's not.
It's absolutely incredible.
Yes, there might be somechanges that you want to make to
it, but they're not going tohappen by you looking at your
body and saying you're gross.
It's not going to happen.
You're going to start believingthat you're gross and that's
going to make you feel reallylow and that's going to lower
your vibration.
That's going to make you feellike crap.
(05:45):
That's going to make you feelMake you feel unworthy.
It's going to make you feelunlovable.
It's going to make you feellike you've got to compare
yourself.
It's going to make you feellike you're not enough.
It's pretty exhausting, huh.
So by saying out loud thenegative thought and actually
really clearly saying in asentence not saying to myself,
not saying out loud I'm gross ormy body is gross, saying the
(06:07):
repetitive thoughts that I'vehad for the last 20 minutes have
been that my body is gross, canyou see the power in that?
And when you say out loud, youbreak the pattern, you break it
in its tracks and you actuallysee it for what it is, which is
just A series of thoughtsspinning around your head and
you stop those thoughts.
Now what would be really goodat this stage and just using
(06:30):
that example of like my body isgross or whatever else, is to
actually then change thatcompletely and be like my body
can do x y z.
You know, this morning alreadymy body has shown me that it can
do x y z.
This afternoon I'm going to goand do this and my body is going
to allow me to do this.
(06:51):
And when you actually startpositively reinforcing things or
saying, every day my body isgetting stronger, every day,
like the movement I'm doingmakes me feel good.
Every day when I exercise ormove my body, I'm getting
dopamine and that makes me feelgood Every day.
I'm just starting to see subtlechanges in my strength.
Every day, when I choose to eatlike really great, healthy,
(07:13):
beautiful, fresh vegetables andfruits and healthy things that
you know this planet provides, Ifeel better.
I can feel my skin clearing up,like you know.
I can see the positive impactthat these tiny little habits
that I do every single day nowI'm making on my body and it
feels great, feels great to knowthat I'm eating well.
(07:35):
It feels great to know that I'mlike prioritizing my health.
Can you see the difference,like when you start talking to
yourself in a really positiveway and just being like I'm
being really patient and I knowit's coming.
I know the body that I want tocreate is coming and I'm really
excited about that.
Can you see, like how, if youwoke up in the morning and you
said those things to yourself inthe mirror instead Number one
(07:57):
how good you would feel, but,secondly, how your body is going
to respond to those newthoughts?
Because, as you program them inover and over and over again,
what you're doing is creatingnew beliefs.
I'm getting healthier.
I love exercising, I love thefeeling of exercising and moving
my body because it's dopamineand you start to create new
(08:18):
beliefs.
You start to create new beliefs.
I love exercise.
I love exercise.
I love eating.
Well, I love, you know, eatinglots of fresh fruit and veggies.
I really love being healthy.
I love how my skin starting tolook and you start to say those
kind of things to yourself.
That is, that's amazing.
That's the direction you wantto go in create new beliefs, new
(08:39):
thoughts on repetition.
Create new beliefs in your bodyand then your body can do
nothing else but follow, becauseit knows that you love it.
Follow the excitement, followthe joy, follow the bliss.
And when I'm talking aboutexercise, I know for some people
there's so many things aroundthat you know that it can, you
know, hold you back.
It can be like, oh, but youknow I don't want to go to the
(09:01):
gym.
I'm not talking about going tothe gym and talking about moving
your body.
Go for a walk if you don't feelcomfortable with your body.
Go for a walk when it's just alittle bit darker.
You know if that's going to getyou started, if that's going to
get you moving, if that's goingto get you out of the house,
like just, you know, in thoselittle niggly things that come
in and kind of prevent you frommoving forward.
(09:22):
Just recognize them.
It's just resistance.
It's just resistance and you'vegot the power now to move
through that because you knowit's just that fog.
It's just that fog in the wayand you can happily just
recognize it for what it is.
So my tip for today is, when youfind yourself in that pattern
of negative thinking, say it outloud and state it.
(09:43):
Go the thoughts that I've beenhaving for the last five minutes
and not doing me any good.
And then this, this, this, I'mcomparing myself to this person,
this person, this person, andit's not healthy for me and I'm
ending it now and instead I'mgoing to start thinking this,
this, this.
But when you verbalize it andsay out, you're breaking that
(10:04):
pattern and that gives you theopportunity to actually go.
What's the opposite of what I'mthinking and that's what I'm
going to start thinking now.
So breaking the pattern ofnegative thinking is very easy
to do.
When you say it out loud, breakthat pattern, and that gives
you the opportunity and thespace to then do a bit of a
rethink and actually go.
(10:25):
I want to create new beliefs andto do that I need to start
repeating really positivethoughts towards myself, and I'm
starting that right now.
And it's these changes thatyou're making every single day,
these new thoughts, these newbeliefs, that are going to get
you moving towards taking thataligned action.
Your body is going to startresponding.
You're going to start makingdifferent decisions, different
choices, and that's going to getyou moving towards self-esteem.
(10:48):
That's going to get you movingtowards more confidence.
That's going to get you movingtowards self-worth, which is
what this is all about.
So put it into practice today.
Make the commitment today tobreak that pattern of negative
thinking, say it out loud, endit in its tracks and then start
thinking about new, repetitivethoughts that are going to get
(11:09):
you believing in yourself andmoving forward, sending you so
much love as always.
Have the most amazing morning,afternoon, evening, wherever you
are, as you continue yourjourney towards self-worth and
to becoming your warrior.
Thanks for listening today andif this episode helped or
(11:34):
inspired you, just remember toshare it to friends or family
who could also use someinspiration today.
We are all about sharing thelove.
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