BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Body Image Are you sabotaging yourself by your thoughts?

Are you trying to lose weight? Get a new job? Make more money? Improve your relationship? If you are not achieving your goals, ask yourself what are you thinking about that topic.

If you are trying to lose weight but believe you that you always have been overweight and will always be, you will never be able to lose the weight long-term. We don't like to make liars out of ourselves, so our universe will usually play out to what we believe to be true.

In order to lose weight successfully (or anything else you want to achieve) you need to think that you have already achieved it. See yourself as your ideal weight. What does it feel like? What do you hear? Get emotional about it. If a self-limiting belief (thought) does pop up, say "cancel" right away and replace it with something positive.

Thoughts are very powerful. As Mike Dooley (www.tut.com) says, "Thoughs become things, think only the good ones."

That philosophy is a lot like The Law of Attraction and The Secret. It has long been proven that your mind really controls you....so like the computers...Garbage In - Garbage Out.

Whether you think you can..or you can't...you're right - attributed to Mary Kay Ash, but also Henry Ford said it as well.

Just meditate on the fact that you are thin and eating healthier, feeling good about yourself, etc and it WILL come to pass!

I agree with both of you! Our mind is very powerful and we can use it for "good or evil."

I believe the most important voice we listen to is our own.

Affirmations are a great way to stay focused on the positives. "I am healthy and happy with the way I feel and look."