Welcome To Minds Power Teens

Minds Power Teens -Experiments	People

Let’s start with the next 24 hours. For the next 24 hours I want you to play a game of no sarcasm, no teasing, no devaluation, no belittling, no put-downs of yourself. And you will treat others with the same respect you are giving yourself.

You don’t have to be a braggart to do this. If somebody pays you a compliment, you can say, “Thank you very much.” Inside you say to yourself. “Yes, that’s like me. I am good.”

We are entering a whole new discipline of thinking positively and constructively about yourself – and those around you. Try it. You’re going to like it.

Q.1. This should be an easy exercise. Where do you put yourself or others down? At social events? At an athletic contest? During study period? In what ways do you put yourself or others down?

Q.2. Do you allow teasing and devaluing? Do you add to it with your own remarks? Or do you quickly change the subject?

Q.3. How quick are you to give others credit and do you say so?

Q.4. Make a list of 5 things you say to yourself that build you up and 5 that tear down your own self-image? Do you say similar things to others?

Q.5. Think of 8 positive and 8 negative words that trigger pictures and feelings – and thus affect you.

Now watch how you can use your own self-talk and emotions to help you make change and reach goals. Learn to use self-talk statement. They are the most powerful key for reaching goals.

Self-talk statements are more powerful if they have special ingredients. These parts are found in Jean Claude Killy’s self-talk statement, “The night before the race I run the course 50 times and I always win and I hear the roar of the crowd when I cross the finish line. “Let’s look at the special parts of this sentences.

S.No	Parts Of Sentence	Explanation
1	BEFORE	Killy’s statement is about an event that has not taken place yet. Your statements will be made BEFORE you really reach your goal.
2	I	It is about him. Yours will be about you.
3	NOW	It is written as though he is on his skills NOW. Your statement needs to be written in the present tense.
4	REPETITION	Killy repeated his statement and the pictures he got from it 50 times. The more you repeat your statement the more power it gives you
5	GOAL	His statement is about his goal. Winning! Yours will be too. It also contains emotion (the roar of the crowd) You will want to put as much positive emotion in your statement as possible. The list of emotion words on the next page will help you write more powerful and dynamic self-talk statements
6	EMOTION	In unit 9 we will discuss more on picturing the feelings that make the self – talk statements so powerful.

This process is especially powerful because each time we think the words. See the pictures and experience the emotion it is recorded by the subconscious as though it really happened. We go through the same process each time we remember an experience, positive or negative, and talk to ourselves about it.

Your performances as a person are controlled by the Self-Talk cycle.

“When things get me down ...

Visualization works for more than just sports. It is extremely effective for increasing confidence and preparing for any type of situation, mental or physical. Type C’s in business, politics, medicine, law and the arts whom we interviewed all used mental imagery to prepare for pressure situations.

Time Inc.’s Dick Munroe told us that as part his preparation for an important speech he imagines the whole environment. “I will see in my mind what it looks like, who will be there, how they will be seated and how I want to come across.”

“Windmilling” is what Bettina Parker calls her process of mental rehearsal. When Ms. Parker, the president of a large international marketing and consulting firm, is working on an important project, she visualizes it all in her head and rehearses it until it plays out perfectly. She’ll often practice like this for days prior to a meeting to make sure she has everything worked out just right.

Physicians divided post-coronary patients into two groups. One group was given a programe of daily jogging and exercise. The other only did mental imagery. “They imagined themselves jogging or pictured themselves in a beautiful meadow filling their

Lungs with wonderful fresh air and feeling the oxygen going through the whole body reaching the heart.”

After a year the results were identical for both groups. Weight and body fat were down. There was an increase in grip strength and EKG tracings. Blood pressure was lowered and adrenaline production by the body was lowered.

We also need to practice positive self-talk when our performance is GOOD. Be sure to enjoy it and tell yourself how well you performed.

That’s like me to . . . That’s the best I’ve ever . . I did great!

Successful people control their self- talk. When they are successful they say things that mean “that’s like me” when they are not successful they say things mean “that’s not like me”

Think back in your past at your successes and failures (temporary setbacks) what did you say to yourself after the successes? What did you say after the temporary setbacks?