PTSD Healing Thought: Defeating Self-Talk
Friday, July 24th, 2009 • PTSD Healing Thought of the Week •
If you’re walking around saying, “I want to heal my PTSD, but I can’t!” stop yourself dead in your tracks and think about what you just told yourself.
Unconjunct the conjuction and say it again:
I want to heal my PTSD, but I can not.
And so what have you just told your brain, which is an incredibly literal entity?
You’ve said, “I can not heal.”
This implies a choice. You can, or you can not heal. And your brain replies, Whoo-hoo! I choose not to because I don’t want to put out the effort anyway.
So then you’re stuck because a part of you wants to heal but another part is taking advantage of your self-talk and holding you back.
Get rid of negative language. Take words like can’t, don’t, won’t out of your healing vocabulary.
If the mind knows only what you tell it, tell it only good things: I can, I do, I will, I want, I wish….
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If the mind knows only what you tell it, tell it only good things: I can, I do, I will, I want, I wish….
What a great motto. Although sometimes it is hard to say it and believe it. I try to start every day doing just that. Even if the day turns bad, there is always tomorrow.
@Acorn – Richard Bandler said something I really loved last week, he said: “The point is not to be perfect every day, it’s to be a little better today than we were yesterday.”
Isn’t that great? For us PTSDers that makes the goal containable and achievable.
Also, I think it would be impossible to spend the whole day monitoring our thoughts and replacing the bad with good. A better strategy would be to create the life we want – through answering what we want, wish for, enjoy; then all good & healing flows from there because we are living our present and future instead of our past.