telling your brain "i know you don't wanna do the thing and it'll be very uncomfortable for you at first but you can do it buddy. it'll be fine" is actually surprisingly effective. it sounds too simple but that fuckass organ WILL listen to you if you treat it with kindness lol
Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.
your brain will reshape itself around what you consistently pay attention to. the way you talk to yourself, every thought you repeat, every good thing you focus on, every belief, all of it becomes a pattern. and over time those patterns become your reality. โyour mind is a magnet. if you think of blessings, you attract blessings. if you think of problems, you attract problems.โ
i know most of you think self talk is just โmotivationโ or fake positivity but itโs deeper than that. your brain cells literally rewire themselves based on repetition. the thoughts you practice the most become the thoughts your mind returns to automatically. thatโs why negative thinking feels so natural after years of repetition. and that is also why positive thinking feels uncomfortable at first cause youโre building new pathways literally from scratch.
so just tell yourself good thing long enough, eventually your brain stops resisting it and starts believing it. and once your brain believes something, it begins searching reality for proof of it everywhere. so just keep believing it long enough and it will become your reality
this is why people hit a certain age and start joining running clubs, training for marathons, taking a cooking course etc btw. we all just wanna feel alive!!!
itโs okay. i revisit what i once read at 18 now at 26 and finally understand the parts that used to slip past me. the interesting part of rereading is realizing the words never changed. only you did, in ways almost unrecognizable to your former self