FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
Our mind is amazing in every way. This afternoon I realised once more that the ideas we have about ourselves are what shapes our behaviour. In my case, who I want to become is very clear in my conscious mind and it has a lot to do with the above picture I fabricated a while back. It shows me as the kind of woman I admire and strive to be: elegant, poised, sharp witted, unafraid, with a clear picture of who she is, what she wants to achieve, self-confident and independent. However, today I was reminded that it is the subconscious mind that calls the shots and makes you fall back to your old behaviour if that is the unchanged picture still saved on the harddisk. And then I had my little crisis of desperation before accepting that I will have to work harder, much harder to bring about the change. The subconscious works with repetitions. Repeat a statement with the conviction that it is the truth about yourself and eventually you will convert it into the dominant idea. Whatever is dominant will literally make you adopt that particular behaviour and this in turn will lead to your becoming the very person you concocted in your mind. So as the saying goes: Fake it till you make it, baby.