So many of us have swiftly made it through our younger years to adulthood, yet we can still be fairly murky as to what really makes us tick–what is making us feel confident or insecure, healthy or burned out. Unknowingly, many of us have wound up as highly functioning careered and familied adults with baffling moments of dissatisfaction, emptiness and, perhaps deep sadness. Many of us are too busy, or haven’t figured out how to stay fit and eat well on a consistent basis. Many are still using old coping mechanisms of overeating, destructive drinking and smoking habits, and shopping sprees, to name a few.

If we are self-soothing by destructive means or impulsive behaviors to feel better, then what is it that is making us feel so badly to begin with? Usually it is the negative self-talk we are habitually feeding ourselves. We produce about 50,000 thoughts per day which are channeled into a running dialogue that we have going with ourselves. This dialogue is so entrenched and habitual that often we don’t even notice it. Think about it…if two-thirds of your thoughts are upsetting and self-devaluing, guess how 66% or your day is going to feel? Our thoughts spill over to our behaviors. If we are feeling insecure, depressed and/or anxious, we may not be able to maintain the motivation necessary to take really good care of ourselves. By really good care, I mean maintaining a positive attitude, eating well and practicing a regular fitness regime.

So how does this running dialogue inside our heads impact our lives? The inner dialogues, or tapes, have become our realities over time. Really, we all put our own twists on many situations or conversations that we might view differently if we had videotaped them and could play it back. Often, our thoughts are merely reactions that have become our reality. We can, however, retrain our thinking.

Didn’t Sir Isaac Newton say something like, “Every action has an equal and opposite counter action?” Getting new, positive thought patterns will require a counteraction to your negative ones. Our goal is to re-wire our brains to compose an opposite version of the habitual negative-greatest-hits that tend to rattle around upstairs. Everything flows from our thoughts–choices about whether or not to be healthy and optimistic or self-defeating and gloomy. Small choices can make such a big difference in our lives.

A most effective way of re-training your brain comes in the form a pioneer program called PsychFit, Inc.

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