The Words that Make Life Work
Daily Self-Talk Messages from the Dean of Positive Self-Talk
Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D., is the author of 17 books in the field of selftalk and personal growth, including What to Say When You Talk to Your Self, and The Power of Neuroplasticity. His books are published in more than 70 countries worldwide. Shad has appeared on over 1200 radio and television programs, including repeat appearances on Oprah Winfrey, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN News.
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Also by Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D.
What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
The Power of Neuroplasticity
365 Days of Positive Self-Talk
Published by Park Avenue Press
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Copyright 2015 by Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D. / All rights reserved
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Helmstetter, Shad
365 Days of Positive Self-Talk
ISBN 978-0-9727821-2-8 Printed format
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Before You Begin
Some starting words to help you
get the most from reading this book,
and three secrets you need to know.
The words you say, especially the words you say when you talk to yourself, not only change your day, they change your life.
This book is based on the amazing scientific discovery that no matter what age you are, your brain continues to change, and that it is always changing. Because of your brains neuroplasticity, your brain is designed to continually rewire itself. And it rewires itself based on the input it gets. Thats why your self-talk is incredibly important.
Secret #1: The thoughts you think and the words you say physically and chemically change your brain. Your self-talk literally wires your brain to succeed or fail.
Day after day, word by word, your self-talk is wiring programs into your brain. And the picture of you that you wire in most is what you get back out most. It is your self-talk that creates the foundation for your success or failure in life.
Right now, even as youre reading this, youre wiring and changing your brain.
Your self-talk is the commander of your ship, the director of your life. It is the brains guiding hand that leads you in the right directionor in the wrong direction. Your self-talk is the messenger that tells you which path you should follow, what to think and what to do next.
Every thought you think wires your brain to be happy or sad, positive or negative, in a good mood or a bad mood, open to new ideas or closed to them, believing in yourself or not believing in yourself, looking for alternatives or accepting defeat. In fact, everything about you is, at this moment, being influenced or controlled by your self-talk.
What Is Self-Talk and Why Is It So Important?
Self-talk is the direction you give to your brain that tells it how to run your life. Self-talk is everything you say when you talk to yourself. It is your conscious thoughts, and your unconscious thoughts, the thoughts you dont even know youre thinking. It is what you say out loud or what you say silently to yourself. And in its most important form, your self-talk is everything you say or think about youhow you feel about yourselfand what you think and what you believe about anything and everything.
Most of us recognize that when we were growing up, we got programmedand we end up becoming those programs and living them out. The remarkable thing, and a great blessing about selftalk, is that you can change that programming. And when you change your programs, you change your life. Thats what the right self-talk will do for you.
Secret #2: Its been estimated that as much as 77% or more of all of the programs each of us has right now are negative, false, counter-productive, or working against us.
Since it will always be up to each of us to get rid of the negative programs we have, and replace them with the positive kind, any tool that will help us change them can be a blessing. And self-talk is the best tool for changing our programs we have ever found.
In this book youll find 365 daily self-talk scripts of the right kind of self-talkthe kind of self-talk we should have been getting in the first place. These self-talk scripts are the result of more than 35 years of studying self-talk and how it works, and writing and recording self-talk scripts in dozens of subject areas.
I first began writing self-talk scripts in the late 1970s. At that time, I was studying self-talk and its effects on personal success, and I was writing the first scripts for recording self-talk audio programs for people to listen to. We had learned that with repeated listening, people could permanently wire positive new messages into their brains, just by playing the recorded self-talk in the background.
At the time, the role that self-talk played in peoples lives wasnt yet generally understood. Few people realized that their own selftalk, unconsciously repeated throughout each day, was actually programming their brain, and often in the wrong way.
My studies in this field led to the writing of 17 books on the subject of self-talk and personal growth. My first book, What to Say When You Talk to Your Self, introduced the subject of self-talk as we know it today. That book is now published in more than 70 countries, and its popularity shows how mainstream the concept of positive self-talk has become.
My recent book, The Power of Neuroplasticity, gives the latest updates on this amazing subject, and presents the science behind positive self-talk. It shows clearly that when it comes to its ability to change our lives, self-talk is based on solid science.
Clear, Positive Programs
In 365 Days of Positive Self-Talk, youll find daily self-talk messages for reprogramming your brain in a clear, positive way.
The self-talk messages have the power to become much more than a few words you read each day. Reading them, rereading them, and wiring them into your brain could do more than just uplift your yearit could uplift your life.
Reading the self-talk messages one day at a time will give you not only daily inspiration, but also a chance to make each day a better day. However, if youre looking for extra guidance or inspiration at any time, turn to any page to see what you find. If youre looking for an uplift, or need to get back on track, youre sure to find the self-talk you need is just a few pages away.
If you want to get the greatest benefit from this book, read each days self-talk message as you start your day, and read that same message again just before you go to sleep that night.
