{"id":3167,"date":"2004-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/empowering-affirmation\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:47:27","slug":"empowering-affirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/empowering-affirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Affirmation\u00a9"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Can Benefit from “Negative” Self-talk
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“Negative” self-talk is destructive when you allow it to use you; however, it can be most constructive when you use \u201cit\u201d mindfully. Your self-talk is not to be feared, nor fought. It is a call for your attention. Use your self-talk to obtain valuable information. This will increase your awareness of the beliefs you are carrying enabling you to create new beliefs in alignment with your intentions.<\/p>\n

Here’s the framework…<\/p>\n

Empowering Affirmations\u00a9
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  1. Write down precisely what you are saying to yourself<\/li>\n
  2. Make a note of how this self-talk makes you feel<\/li>\n
  3. Drop the label \u201cnegative\u201d from your self-talk and appraise it as valuable information<\/li>\n
  4. Ask yourself, \u201cWhat beliefs are underlying my self-talk?\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. As you begin to identify beliefs, you will begin to hear a conversation between two inner voices; a “fearful disempowering voice” and a “loving affirming voice”<\/li>\n
  6. This conversation between the \u201ctwo voices\u201d will often identify other beliefs so continue to write down this valuable information<\/li>\n
  7. Use this data to create Empowering Affirmations<\/li>\n
  8. Out of habit, the \u201cold\u201d self-talk may show up. Use Mental Principle #8 Cancel and Replace technique <\/a>to interrupt the old patterns and establish the new mindfully created Empowering Affirmations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Example…<\/p>\n

    Step 1 \u2013 I write down precisely what I am saying to myself:<\/p>\n