REFOCUSING YOUR MIND: Gateway to easily break free

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REFOCUSING YOUR MIND: Gateway to easily break free

Have you ever watched a food advertisement on television and suddenly felt hungry? Have you ever heard someone cough and immediately felt the need to clear your throat? Ever watched someone release a yawn and felt the urge to yawn yourself? ( You may probably be yawning right now!). That is the power of suggestion. The more you think about something, the stronger it takes hold of you. We naturally move towards whatever we focus our attention on. 

I knew a young girl while growing up, she was 14 when I knew her. Her mother had her at the age of 18 as a result of her wayward lifestyle. She grew up without knowing her father and suffered a lot because her mother didn't have enough to take care of her. This young girl was not happy with the situation she found herself in. So she kept telling herself and anyone that cared to listen that she would never make her mother's mistake. "I'd never repeat my mom's mistake", "I would never allow any man deceive me into his bed without the normal marriage procedures", "I know better than my mom did", "I will never allow anyone take advantage of me". She'd say.

2 years later, I heard she was pregnant. What happened? Wasn't she so determined not to repeat her mother's mistake? What went wrong? How could she have allowed herself fall despite all she knew and how she suffered?Simple! The more you think about something, the stronger it takes hold of you. So as she kept announcing "I'm never going to do what my mom did", she was actually setting herself up to repeat it. 

Most diets don't work because they keep you thinking about food all the time, guaranteeing that you'll be hungry. In the same way, a speaker who keeps repeating to himself "Don't be nervous", sets himself up to be nervous. The more you focus on " I don't want to do this", the more it draws you into its web. 

Instead, refocus your mind and attention on something else. Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting it. Once your mind is on something else, the temptation loses it power. So, instead of thinking of "how you don't want to fail", think of "how success feels like". Instead of thinking of "how to stop smoking", think of "how to improve your health". Instead of thinking of that heart-break, think of how you could become a better 'you' For every problem/challenge, you're trying to avoid or overcome, think of the exact opposite. Refocus your mind on something positive and watch how you'd defeat that challenge.

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