Negative messages

We programme ourselves. We repeat messages to ourselves both silently and out loud. How many times have you heard someone close to you repeat a particular message about their skills? For instance:

You will almost certainly have your own ‘negative programme’ that you run regularly.

What happens when you say these things? Do you have a mental picture of yourself doing whatever it is and being successful? No. It’s more likely that you keep seeing yourself not doing it, so what you are actually doing is feeding into your internal computer continual pictures of failure.

The interesting fact to consider is that the central nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real event and an imagined event, providing the imagined event is in clear detail and is repeated often enough to programme the subconscious to ‘see’ that as reality.

Now consider why you might want to change your programming to something positive, rather than keep repeating negative messages.