Mantras

Mantras. These are key to changing negative thought patterns. I’ve recently been going through some things and I’ve found that a simple mantra overides the unconcious or concious negative thoughts about myself or a situation.

There was a time at school where we, as a class, were given ‘lines’ to learn not to repeat unacceptable behaviour. I can’t remember a specific time ( I was very good at school) but I’ll make one up that gets my point across.

So, I was caught running in the corridors. I’d been warned previously to ‘not run’, but running in corridors is fun. I was given the sentence ‘ I must not run in corridors’ to write (with a pen and paper (i.e. no copy/paste)) 1000 times. This was painful but a great exercise and something I didn’t want to repeat. So, guess what, I didn’t run in corridors again. I’ve always been keen to find shortcuts so I shortened this to ‘I mustn’t run in corridors’, actually the same amount of characters but it was also my internal rebel doing it ‘my way’. The teacher wasn’t (was not) impressed so gave me another 1000 lines of ‘I must not be a smart arse’. I wrote it correctly this time but I refused to give up being a smart arse.

So, back to the present day. There have been some confidence/self esteem issues lately (well, that came to surface, they’ve always been there!) so I’ve decided to try and break the negative cycle by repeating a simple phrase. To illustrate this point for this blog I did my usual thing of searching google for ‘I am good enough’ mantras. I couldn’t find what I was looking for so I actually had to write it out in real life (shock horror). I tend to avoid writing things down so it was good to actually do it. It’s something that is always good, writing things down makes it real and tangible (i.e. more believable).

I am good enough

A very simple sentence, why is it so hard to believe? Years and years of conditioning, something that won’t change overnight.

Over the last few days I’ve listened to and read alot of self improvement stuff so have a long list of topics I’d like to explore. Stay tuned in……