Transformation Starts with your Thoughts and Emotions
Posted on June 12, 2012 by Amy Robertson, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
The ability to move forward and to take action regardless of how you currently are feeling takes reprogramming your thoughts.
While going through my divorce I often got asked how I managed to continue to grow my business and stay upbeat and moving forward. The answer was always simple, it was a daily choice. One of the tools I used as I was transitioning and transforming into my new world, was reframing my thoughts and emotions.
The ability to move forward and to take action regardless of how you currently are feeling takes reprogramming your thoughts and emotions to serve you, rather than defeat you. Many of us tend to focus on the negative, or what we don’t want. Staying in these negative thoughts or emotions keeps us at a stand still, trapped in place we don’t want to be.
Reframing your emotions and thoughts can help support you in moving forward and create momentum. It allows you to focus on what you do want, how you want to feel… and most importantly it supports you in creating a life you love.
Let’s say you decide you want to lose weight. When you make that decision, you’re probably feeling pretty motivated and confident. You probably went so far as to formulate a plan to make it happen. Then a day or two in, you’re tempted to give in and have something that is not in your eating plan.
Instead of focusing on the food you can’t have, try focusing on the feeling you’re going to have at the end of the day. The feeling of empowerment, the feeling of knowing you fueled your body with healthy foods and the feeling of success because you kept your commitment to yourself. Focus on the feeling of how you’re going to feel when you loose another pound or pull on those jeans you want to get into (that feeling right there, is down right delicious)!
Recognize your emotions and how they might be sabotaging you. Accept them, and then work on reframeing the thought or emotion to be your friend. Using your emotions and thoughts to fuel you, rather than sabotage you.
This is something you can work on each and everyday. Just like anything else, ease into it. Pick one thing you can work on reframing and whenever that thought or emotion arises, stop it in its tracks and pop in your reframing thought and/or emotion.
Having support is a great way to help you not only recognize defeating thoughts and emotions, but it is an excellent tool to support and guide you in the success of reframing. Transforming your life, starts with transforming your thoughts.
