Change the Shape of Your Self-Image

Change the Shape of Your Self-Image

While we all understand the importance of eating healthy, exercising, and dieting, very few realize that changing our self-image is just as important to leading a healthy lifestyle. How you think and feel about yourself goes a long way to bringing happiness and success into your life and in order to change your self-image - just as you give your body a workout - you need to give your mind a work-out too.

 The first step you need to take is to determine what exactly it is you would like to be and what you are already good at or enjoy doing.  You might say you are good at sports, poetry and spending time with friends.  The one thing you don’t want to do is create a list of things that you don’t like about yourself.  This would only make you feel inadequate and hinder your ability to change yourself and your self-image.  By focusing on the good in yourself, you will be able to quickly change your self-image into something that you are proud of.

Visualization and affirmations can help you to realize just how great you already are.  See yourself doing and becoming everything that you originally wrote down.  Repeat positive affirmations throughout the day to help the new way of thinking sink in and develop your new positive outlook. By vividly imagining this new you, your mind will retrain until you understand that all the things you visualize are true.

 Consider keeping a journal

During this process you will benefit from keeping a journal about your transformation, you will be able to look back on it and this will help to strengthen your self-image and reinforce the new you. It is important that you let your past go and think only about the future and the new you, you will develop your new self-image more rapidly by focusing on what you are achieving and have yet to achieve.

 Goals will get you there

You can help yourself mold a positive self-image if you set attainable goals for yourself and then strive to reach them.  Giving yourself something to work towards creates success in your life – a vital part of reshaping your self-image.  Set goals for yourself in any area you wish, work, personal, health, fitness and then go for it.  Set yourself a realistic time in which to accomplish each goal and give yourself praise when you get there.

 How you choose to change your self-image is entirely up to you, there are no limitations to what you are able to achieve if you set your mind to it and are determined to work towards reaching the desired goal. If you stray from the path leading you there, then don’t be put off and discouraged, get back on track and carry on with determination.

 You are committing yourself to working hard to achieve what you want. Plan on what you will do when you finally reach your ultimate goal, you should aim to give yourself a special treat, you deserve it. Make sure that it is something which you can set your mind on during the tough times, keeping it in mind will give you an incentive that it will completely worthwhile.  

 How keeping a journal can help you succeed

You should never underestimate the power of keeping a written journal, there are many ways in which a journal can help you to better succeed in life.  You can use it to help yourself associate your feelings with your thoughts and your thoughts with your feelings and this is what is most important in order to succeed in life. Your journal can help you to find out what motivates you in life, develop new skills, learn new strategies for dealing with life in general, write down ideas and plan them through and find out more about the person you are by asking questions of yourself and writing down answers to those questions.

 A journal is an essential tool when it comes to learning about ourselves and if we want to be a success in life and knowing about ourselves is a must. While we may think, we know ourselves very few of us actually do.  By keeping a journal, we begin to realize all the little things we do not truly know or understand about ourselves.