Improving your self image can provide you with a major boost to your weight loss efforts. This article will examine how you can use the power of visualization and of reminding yourself of your successes in order to improve your self esteem.
- Visualization. Visualize yourself being exactly how you want to be. Take your Improvements list and imagine yourself being and doing all the things that you wrote down. It's important to take time out to do this where you can relax and be in a calm, safe environment, close your eyes and really imagine in detail what you and everything around you would look like and feel like when you're slim, attractive, self-disciplined and so on.
You should even go as far as to make up stories and really see yourself living all these things, and most importantly, imagine how you feel. Try to do visualization such as this every morning and every night, even if it's only for five minutes.
- Keep a success diary. Most of us tend to remember our failures and focus on our negative points much more strongly and clearly than our successes and the things we're good at. You can easily see this if you start to keep a success diary. In your success diary, write down everything you do well in any given day. This can be anything from the smallest success, such as remembering to pick up your dry cleaning, to big things like weighing yourself and seeing that you lost two pounds in a week.
The size of the success doesn't matter, just make sure you write it down, and you'll be surprised how quickly you start to notice your successes more regularly in life. This will lead to an increased feeling of self worth and achievement and to less focus on the negatives in your life.
The power of visualization and of focusing on your successes instead of your failures should not be underestimated, as they can bring significant changes in your life. Try them for a month and you'll begin to feel the major difference they can make.
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