As you may or may not know.  I have a tremendous tendency to look backward instead of forward.  I get stuck in a vicious cycle of regret, to the extent of wanting to redo my past.  It could be for anything I did – big or small.

On top of that I have many limiting beliefs:  My brain doesn’t work well.  I can’t plan.  I’m not good at making decisions…

Wow!  What an identity I’ve been creating for myself.  A very negative one.

Yes.  By thinking and speaking these thoughts, I’m creating and shaping my identity.

Not good.

I’m becoming more and more cognizant of this fact and how damaging it is to my mind, body, spirit and soul.  It keeps me stuck and small, not moving forward.

So most recently I’ve been focusing on the fact that I am a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold the new has come.

This is my intentional thought each morning.

Each day is a new day, I can let go of the past, and start fresh.

I can stop catastrophizing and LEARN from my mistakes (or what I am calling mistakes), and be GRATEFUL.

I am not limited by my limiting or false beliefs.  [I’m using limiting and false somewhat interchangeably here.]

This is the identity I want for myself, not that which I’d been creating, which doesn’t serve me or anyone else.

Can you relate to this?

What’s the identity you’ve been creating for yourself?

I presume if you’re reading this blog, you have some form of negative self-talk too.

Perhaps your negative self-talk centers around something other than what I have already mentioned.

Perhaps it centers around a physical ailment or medical diagnosis. `

The person who continues to repeat one of the following is likely programming his/her body for illness:

• I am sick.

• I have ulcerative colitis.

• I have IBS.

• I have OCD.

• I have cancer.

• I have a sick brain.

• I am a procrastinator.

• I can’t lose weight.

• I can’t make decisions.

• I am different.

• I have ADD.

Are we causing our symptoms to intensify and take a stronger hold by simply believing we are sick, incapable, doomed?

This isn’t quite coming out like I am thinking.  I am not suggesting in any way that we simply need to think positively and we’ll get well or that we’re the sole cause of our illnesses.

Or that we should deny our symptoms.  They’re real and their telling us there’s imbalance in our bodies.

However, we need to be cognizant of the words we are speaking over ourselves and the identity we are creating for ourselves through them.

Are we identifying with sickness or wellness?

Are we programming the physical body to be sick or are we programming it to be well?

Our words are powerful.

We need to think about HOW we’re scripting our bodies with our words.

Even as I write this article I am being challenged to re script my own beliefs about myself and my ability to write.  I don’t have to spend days on end trying to write a short article.  It doesn’t have to be perfect.

When we script our conversations about being well, smart, intelligent, capable, we open the possibility for wellness and change.

If I want to be well, happy, content, vibrant, I need to create that identity.  And I do so in large part by watching the words I invoke over myself.

I need to refrain from verbalizing regrets, from telling myself and anyone else I messed up.

No more “I should have…” OR “If only, I had…”

I need to refrain from telling myself:  “My brain doesn’t work well. I can’t plan.  I am not good at making decisions…”

I resist the urge to continue practicing these false beliefs and I choose new ones:

• I have mercury poisoning AND I’m grateful to be alive.  I am NOT powerless.

• My body is on its way to vibrant health.

• My body is capable of healing.  I may not know what it needs but I am figuring it out.

• I am a purposeful person.

• I can’t start the next chapter of my life if I keep reading or trying to rewrite the previous chapters.

• I am a new creation.  The old has passed away.  Behold the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

• I will trust in the Lord and I will not be afraid. Isaiah 12:2

• I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

What are your limiting beliefs or false beliefs? I invite you to take time to write them out.

And then challenge them.  Call them out as false.  And began to invoke truth over yourself.

Remember, whenever we have a thought, our brain kicks into gear to prove it’s true.

If I have the thought, “I’ve wasted my life thinking about food,” my brain will quickly show me all the ways this is true.  It’s MY job to stop my brain in its tracks and challenge that thought.

Likewise, it’s your job to stop your brain in its tracks when it tells you you’re unworthy, you’ve messed up, you’re not capable…

And look for all the ways the opposite is true.  And invoke truth over yourself.

Remind yourself that you are precious and valuable.

If this article resonated with you and you’d like help changing your thoughts and beliefs about yourself, I am here for you.

Book a free consultation, and let’s talk about your beliefs and the identity you’re creating for yourself.

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Thank you for being here.

I wish you well on your healing trajectory.

Peace and grace,
Karen