Bill Phillip's | Transformation

Flex those mental muscles!

This journey is all about flexing our muscles....our physical muscles AND our mental muscles!

I just read someone's blog about how frustrated they've been today.  She was wondering why it is still such a struggle to get up out of bed, eat well, and work out when she's been at this for so long...after all this time it should just be a way of life.  My opinion is the way of life is recognizing these destructive thoughts and being able to conquer them before they do harm and/or steal our joy.  There's nothing wrong with you because you have these thoughts...the key is to not let the thoughts ruin your day and paralyze you from being the best you can be!

I had a similar issue the other day when I started seing how the old "aproval seeker" in me was starting to rear it's ugly head and I just thought not again...I thought I had conquered that beast....I thought I had transformed.  It made me wonder though....because the "approval seeker" is showing up again does that mean I still have work to do in that area of my life?  Maybe....but maybe not....

I recognized the ugly "approval seeker" beast and I nipped it in the bud before it became a problem!   I cleaned up my environment, the things that were causing these thougths and conquered the "approval seeker" once again.  The old me would have let the ugly "approval seeker" ruin my day and cause me to be in an unproductive spiral, it would have stolen my joy and I would not have even recognized the destructive behavior it was causing until it had stolen days, and days of my life from me.

I believe that we will always have the negative thoughts, the criticism, the personality flaws, etc.  I don't believe they'll ever truly go away...they are a part of us...they've been with us for a very long time.  The key is to recognize them for what they are before they cause a problem, before they paralyze us, before they send us in a downward spiral that is difficult to get out of.  Replace the personality flaws with Godlike characteristics and the negative thoughts with peaceful, beautiful, positive thoughts.  Let the personality flaws and negative thoughts be buried beneath all the good things about us.  The negatives may still rear their ugly head but the episodes will be few and far between and they will be shorter in duration.  This is where our Transformation training comes into play and where we get to flex those mental muscles!

Denise talks about flexing the "do not quit" muscle when we're ready to quit during our workouts...what is that really? ....the thoughts of quitting, it's too hard, I can't do it, I'm not strong enough these are all just more of that negative-self talk rearing it's head.....the "do not quit" muscle is our way to conquer the negative thought and send it back into the basement, back to the giant database that keeps all of our thoughts (positive and negative).

I am learning that with diligence, with my smile-a-thon and with awareness I am finally conquering my negative thoughts and personality flaws and keeping them in the basement.  I'm flexing my "positive thought" muscles!  I'm happier and I can truly enjoy life and enjoy my family and be grateful for every breath that God has given me on this beautiful Earth of his.  I am finally finding my peace and I am not fearful of the ugliness that still can rear its head from time, to time.  That ugliness is not going to win the battle, I am strong and I know how to conquer those thoughts now with the beautiful positive thoughts that are becoming regular tenants in my mind.  With God's strength he is guiding me and transforming me into the person that he wants me to be.