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NEVER THINK NEVER!

Some research says that during the day we are thinking around 65,000 thoughts and that the majority of these thoughts are negative and that out of these 65,000 thoughts 95% are the same as the ones as we thought about the previous day.
Isn’t this amazing?
We are actually spending a great deal of our thinking process to undermine our self esteem, and most of the time we are not even aware that we are doing this. We are repeating our thoughts over and over and we neglect the fact that our thoughts and language are controlling our feelings. The earlier you become aware of this the better.
Our brain is not very complex, it takes in the information it gets and pass it on to the body. The brain does not determine what is good for me and what is not and neither does it determine what is true or false. Over and over many of us repeat the same old phrases: “I am so fat”, “I am so out of shape”, “I hate getting up in the mornings”, “my job is so boring and my boss is a complete disaster”. Even if you might think this is true you should stop expressing these thoughts. This will only give your “monster” more food and a confirmation that these facts belongs in your life and a monster who continuously receives more food and more confirmations doesn’t becomes weaker, right? This is called negative affirmation. The word affirmation means confirmation and everything we think, believe or say is a positive or negative affirmation.

Affirmation is of course nothing new but you should start to use these affirmations more consciously and more importantly use more of the positive ones. In order for an affirmation to work it has to be formulated in the present tense, like it was already true. In order to get started you can write down a positive affirmation on a piece of paper and read it to yourself several times, from when you are getting up in the morning until you go to bed at night. For example “I feel great and I am in an excellent shape”. The nice thing about this is that you necessarily don’t need to believe in what you are saying. In fact, we usually don’t believe in thinks we want to change, but we make them true. This might seems weird but remember, the brain does not determine that what we say is true or not.

A small but important detail about affirmations: avoid the innocent world “not”. It’s easy to believe that the phrase “I will not fail” is a positive phrase but that is not the case. In order for your brain to understand the phrase “I will not fail”, you have to create a mental picture of how it is to fail in order for you to understand what it is you are not going to fail. This is called negative focusing. When you are saying a phrase that involved “not’ your brain is actually skipping this word and are focusing on the rest of the phrase. Do you follow? For example, if you tell yourself “not to think about a polar beer” or “not to think about the color blue”, how well do you succeed? Even if we combine these two sentences to one: “I will not think about a blue polar beer” you will most likely think exactly about a blue polar beer, even though as far as I know there are no blue polar beers on our planet.

Perhaps you are the happiest person on this planet, you love your job, you are in your best possible shape ever and you just feel overall great. But maybe something is missing. In that case my advice to you is to start using more positive affirmation and less negative ones and also combines these with real life experiences, like coming to World Class once in a while. Here you will be met by our smiling staff and you will find like-minded people laughing their way trough one of our fun aerobic- and spin classes, meet people in the gym that are improving their physical shape day by day or just find people enjoying their time in our pool and Jacuzzi.

Good luck, you will be surprised how fast the results will appear.

Mikael Fredholm, Sales & Marketing Manager World Class Fitness Romania
 
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