Change Your Internal Environment and You External Environment Will Follow Suit

My life finally changed, for the better, when I buckled down and changed my mind. For the longest time I was living a life that didn’t feel like mine and it wasn’t, it was what I believed everyone else wanted me to be or do. Living this life made me angry, disappointed in myself, frustrated, getting into relationships that I didn’t like, and falling into a negative spiral that wasn’t leading me the direction I wanted to go.

Finally one day, honestly after a night out in the bars, I woke up and said this is enough. You deserve better, you are better, and something needs to change. So I took a look at myself in the mirror and said, “You are enough, You deserve more, and You will get more”. From that moment on I started making choices based on what I wanted vs. what others wanted…. basically I started choosing me. To do that it meant I had to improve my self talk and change my mindset not on my life necessarily but on myself!!!

Hear more about this journey in the video below and then lets get into why changing your mindset is so powerful!!!

There is a symbiotic relationship between the body and the mind. In that, whatever occurs in the mind affects the body and vice versa.  It is in this relationship that allows us to take ourselves to the next level but only when we chose to focus on building strength and resilience through training our mind.

Do you ever feel like the frantic employee, running around with someone else controlling what is going on?  That is your subconscious brain calling the shots.  Our subconscious brain is emotional and quick thinking but here is the best part, you can train your subconscious brain, you can become the CEO of your subconscious brain.  This is Mental Performance Training, the act of training your subconscious brain to listen to what you want vs. what it believes you want. 

What does mental training look like?

In short mental training is the act of creating routines that allow you to find a mind body connection that helps you to stay present within oneself.

Your brain is tricky in that it doesn’t know the difference between reality and imaginary so what you tell it and what you visualize it how you respond.  By walking through the few (as there are many ways to train the brain) below examples of mental training what you are in a sense doing is providing more training reps for your brain, and in turn your body as your body listens to what your brain says/does.

Here are a few examples of the practices you can gain from mental training:

Guided Visualizations
Visualization exercises that help you move towards a specific goal while visualizing yourself breaking through your limiting believes.  As a guide walks you through the visualization you are seeing yourself walk through the limiting beliefs you may have put on yourself, you are creating time for your brain to see yourself already having conquered those limiting beliefs and put yourself in the situation so that when you go to do it in person your brain won’t stop you because it believes it has already done so.

Positive Self-Talk and Affirmations
Process of creating internal confidence by rewiring negative thoughts and declaring your intentions and goals.  What we say to ourselves is one of the most important pieces of creating confidence, you cannot be strong mentally if you are not able to talk to yourself in a positive manner.

Breath Work
This may seem silly and so simple, yet it is this simplicity that makes breath work so powerful.  Through deep breathing you calm your fight or flight response, provide a sense of calmness and relaxation to oneself which gives you a chance to work through the response.

Goal Setting and roadmap creation
Goals are fabulous, they are the foundation of what motivates you and gives direction.  Yet without a plan those goals can often feel way too far away and sometimes as though they are not obtainable. Through creation of a roadmap surrounding your goals you now have daily actionable steps that give you something to stay focused on and check off on a regular basis.

What can Mental Training do for You?

Most importantly mental training gives you an edge, it allows you to create action plans in which to be able to overcome mental and physical barriers such as nervousness, injury, low focus, low confidence, provide emotional control, and perfectionism.

It is through training your mind that you find the real motivation.  Motivation is fleeting, motivation inspires us, it gets us to sign up for the goal, it gets us to put the goal to paper, and maybe it gets us started but it isn’t what gets us to the start line and more importantly the finish line. Motivation waxes and wanes but it is the discipline you gain from mental training that provides you the most motivation

Discipline keeps you focused, it keeps you on target and helps you to get through difficult tasks.  It is something that you chose to do, it is you choosing to be dedicated to the process and the goals that you were motivated to set.  The tools that you gain from training your mind are the ones that help you to stay focused and disciplined.  It is these tools that allow you to trust the journey and the process so that when roadblocks and obstacles come your way.

When your motivation wanes here are a few tips you can turn to:

Writing your Affirmation
Your affirmation is a full statement that provides you with your goal, what you want out of that goal and how you are going to achieve it and that is very powerful.  By saying it to yourself you can create power and energy within yourself, let the affirmation bring you imagery and through that the motivation to get started.

Recalling the moments that bring you joy
No matter what the journey, no matter how tough, there is always joy in the journey.  This is similar to focusing on gratitude, for when we focus on gratitude (joy) we then bring positivity to our aura and that can make it easier to push through when things get hard.

Put on a movie or music that gets you pumped up
Music (and inspirational videos) have a way of getting us pumped up, focused, and motivated. 

Choosing to work on your mind is one of the best things you can do for yourself, for you cannot change your external environment if you do not first work on and change your internal environment.

CHEERS!!!

Kayla

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