Imagine looking in the mirror at yourself…
What’s the first thing you think of when you see your reflection?
Is it of love, kindness, joy, or peace?
This first thought is a part of our internal conversation, or our story.
How do you speak to yourself?
Rewiring my thinking by focusing on what I’m good at, what my strengths are and what I have to offer changes how I think about myself and the world around me.
This hasn’t always been my story. From the time I was a little girl, I can remember feeling there was something wrong with me, I wasn’t smart enough, good enough, and certainly didn’t fit in.
My family wasn’t ‘normal’ therefore I wasn’t ‘normal’. I escaped into a story of fantasy, going into a place of my mind where there was no pain, negativity, hurt, loss, fear. Or swinging to the direct opposite into imagined catastrophe and fortune-telling into “what if”… predicting that everything will turnout badly.
This is some of ‘stinkin thinkin’. My thoughts had taken on an unhealthy attitude, one that was working against me, not serving me, often irrational. This ‘stinkin thinkin’ created so many unrealistic expectations of myself and of those I loved. I was unmanageable in all of my relationships.
Have you ever heard of ‘stinkin thinkin’?
Maybe you experience ‘stinkin thinkin’?
How do you know if you have ‘stinkin thinkin’?
What to learn how to stop ‘stinkin thinkin’?