Your Conscious Mind
The voice you use to talk to yourself with all day long is your conscious mind. It’s fairly slow and doesn’t have that many great ideas, and is where all of your habits start – good and bad. When you start with new habits like learning to drive a car or a new morning routine, you have to think about them. This all happens in the conscious mind.
The main use people have for their own conscious mind is to convince themselves they’re not good enough and won’t succeed at anything. This trait is a bad habit that needs changing into a good one. So to being with, the very first exercise I want you to do s to turn your negative inner voice into a more confident, more positive one instead.
Do this simple exercise now:
Work out how that voice in your head would sound if it was being positive towards you instead of putting you down. To give you an example, for me my positive internal voice is deeper in tone than the negative voice I used to hear and talk to myself with, and it speaks slower, clearer and much calmer.
Spend a few minutes imagining how you would sound if you spoke with confidence and authority to other people. Hear in your head exactly how you would sound.
When you’ve got yourself set on how this new voice sounds, start getting into the habit of talking to yourself with that voice instead of the usual negative one. Do this several times a day for a week and see just what sort on impact it has on the way you think about yourself.
It’s all about habit. You need to repeat it over and over in your head for it to stick, so don’t give up when your old negative voice pops back into your mind. Remember, you’re learning a new habit whilst pushing out the old one, so you need to think about it to begin with.
