"'Do You Feel It Is Important To Make Positive Statements About Yourself...The Type Of Person You Are and You Goals?' by Mike Filsaime, Paulie Sabol, Donna Fox and Tom Beal"
16. Do you feel it is important to make positive statements about yourself...the type of person you are and your goals?
Mike Filsaime: Yes, those are affirmations. You need to not only say the affirmations but you need to envision the affirmation. Like I said before it’s been proven and it’s a fact that when your mind and in your imagination & you think in terms of the past & look back in your memory bank & you imagine things the mind looks in the same exact place that it does for memories.
The mind cannot distinguish between imagination and reality. So all you have to do is imagine the results that you want & you will suddenly start to live that life. I know I keep on saying that same thing but I believe so strongly in those things that we are talking about right now.
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Paulie Sabol: I do. In the Old Testament it says that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Ever since the first time that I heard that line, it became a goal of mine to always speak and seek to always speak life to myself, to others, to the planet, etc.
So I think it is an eminently important. I want to say this one thing about this matter of speaking life, because very often we can feel as if…
When I was in junior high and high school, and being at the age of a lot of your listeners, I was the fat kid. That’s who I was. I spent most of my time feeling bad and internalizing and absorbing those attitudes. When I was at my best health, when I really shed a lot of the weight, I was running.
I heard a passerby say, “Hey, fatso.” I turned to look even though that wasn’t even who I was in the physical form anymore. I had shed the weight. But get this, my sense of identity, because I hadn’t changed that internal language, was still that I was the fatso.
So this is why it is eminently important. It is as if I failed to do that change of the internal view, I ended up having an auto accident shortly after I was at the best level of health I have ever had. With the results of that accident, it became impossible for me to continue with my healthy lifestyle.
Then my career changed in such a way that I couldn’t continue my healthy eating. Originally I got up above my highest level of extra weight, and now I’m back on the path I started first, before I started to lose the weight.
Before I started to lose the weight, I started to say things to myself. I started to change that programming. I believed this time, that when I overcome and continue to overcome the weight, as I already am, that I will have the permanent result. This is what I was saying about the issue of saying something when it is not true.
That was one of the reasons I was not willing to first program myself and say, “You are healthy. I am so happy that I am a happy, vibrant, perfect, ideal weight.” I was uncomfortable with that was because I somehow believed that I was lying. It didn’t make any sense to affirm something that wasn’t true.
Then I found another piece of the puzzle, out of the very same sacred text, that I had found the quote that death and life come out of the power of the tongue. It said, “Let the poor say I am rich, let the weak say I am strong.”
Again, I’m not saying that anyone has to believe that there is anything special or uniquely true, or differentially, philosophically important about the Old Testament book as opposed to any other sacred text. But it is the wisdom of all times and it is there for us.
And the wisdom of all times said, “Let the poor say I am rich.” I suddenly realized, just like with the finger, and my willingness to look beyond the immediate goal, or the immediate need, or my immediate contributions, or my immediate life, I am going to do the same.
What I am doing is not lying, Ralph, but I am affirming in the future what I know will come about necessarily so. As we learn in physics, that there is only one thing that time moves both forwards and backwards, and is largely a convenient illusion for our own purposes, so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Guess what Ralph? I am at that ideal weight, ideal health, and the best I’ve ever looked, now.
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Donna Fox: I do think it’s important to keep your dreams and your goals, specifically statements about them like incantations about them. Tony Robbins said, “Even more powerful than affirmations is incantations.”
If you say something rhythmically and you add body motion so you have the audio, you have a visual maybe in your head, and you add a body motion to it so you have a kinesthetic component as well.
Now if you get them all together it’s total body learning. The only slight tweak, Ralph, is you said positive statements about your future goals. I like to make positive statements about my present conditions, even if it’s not my present reality at the time.
If every cell in my being starts to believe it, then it has to come true.
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TOM BEAL: Yes as a matter of fact go to Zig Ziglar.com and he has a little piece you can download. It’s a little PDF report that I suggest you print out. It’s an affirmation called “A Life Changing Process” which it is.
I just took it out of my wallet. I go through spurts where I’ll read it for months. I’ll read it in the morning and read it in the evening. It talks about “I AM” and all these positive attributes. When you are not congruent with them it’s hard to look yourself in the eye in the mirror while you’re reading it.
For instance it says “I am sober”. There was a time in my life I wasn’t sober. If you are incongruent with it, it’s weird how your mind is a self regulator. When you start reading those affirmations you will take on all those traits and characteristics. I just feel that’s a natural law.
If you can boldly state those looking at yourself in the mirror you will attain those i.e., I am timely, I am responsible, etc you will pick up all those positive attributes and begin living them and you will be the embodiment of them. Going back to Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill told Andrew Carnegie this one statement, “Andrew Carnegie I’m not only going to equal your accomplishments I’m going to surpass them.”
This was back when Andrew Carnegie was the only billionaire on the planet. Napoleon Hill said “There was a time I couldn’t look myself in the mirror. I was laughing. I had my fingers crossed. I said who am I kidding he’s a billionaire. I will never equal his accomplishments.”
But he ended up believing it and he’s created more millionaires and continues to do so to this day. He passed away in 1973 or something like that. In those future generations he will still create millionaires and he passed away a couple of generations ago.
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