Master Your Mind, Master Your Physique – Part 2: Thoughts, Beliefs & Reality 

If you can control your thinking you can control your life. What is going on upstairs when you are thinking all day long? Our thoughts are nothing more than our self-talk. It’s the internal dialogue we are constantly having with-in ourselves and is composed of three things;

1.Words-

What we are telling ourselves.

2. Picture-

What we are imagining and visualizing.

3. Emotions-

What we are feeling.

When you hit a new PB in the Gym and you are chuffed. You think to your self ‘Yer am strong, i’m the man! (Words), You see yourselves as a unit. (Picture) and you feel proud and accomplished(Emotion)

Now are thoughts are very powerful. Collectively our thoughts confirm our beliefs and our beliefs set our reality to how we perceive it to be true. Our brain then works to assimilate ourselves to that reality. (More on this in the next few articles) Now your beliefs don’t even need to be true for them to have a Dramatic impact on your life. A Doctor can give someone a placebo and it can heal their illness. Can we please just take a minute to actually think about how amazing that is! A beliefs in the effectiveness of a sugar pill can result in a positive physiological outcome. Even though the beliefs is not true. This is so powerful that we need to account for it in clinical pharmacological trials with controls groups.

Imagine if the same subconscious mechanism responsible for healing your body from a sugar pill was at work for you to achieve your ideal physique, sport performance goal or any goal you have? Beliefs are just thought or ideas that have been affirm to us externally or internally. A placebo is a one time affirmation of fact that has become your reality. For internally affirm beliefs is not as easy, This is where we need to play the numbers game. You have almost 50k thoughts a day and this thought accomulate to affirm your beliefs and your perfection of reality. If we can control our self-talk then we can control what beliefs we hold. Our beliefs affirmed our reality which then allows our subconscious goes to work to help us assimilate to that reality. That is what we want to master and that is what will change your life.