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How You Are Killing Your Dreams (Self Talk) | Basit Rashid | TEDxYouth@Glasgow


now before we even begin I need everyone
to stand up with me right now right now
come up without a break let’s get the
energy up guys if I see salsa and then
I’ll call you right now they’re standing
up if you look at the slide up there
we’re going to speak this affirmation
together I’m going to say three two one
go
then with as much energy and passion a
all right that’s not good at all
sounds pretty bad let’s try this again
right but this time take a deep breath
and really feel it with every cell of
your body okay three two one go – well
thank you have a seat thanks Gary sort
now you’re probably feeling a mixture of
emotions right now
from empowered to cringe but my question
to you is this why’d you not talk to
yourself like that all the time why is
it more natural for you to think of
yourself in a way that’s negative and
deflating that in a way that’s positive
and empowering why do we just beat
ourselves up or they’re ever questioning
it it’s because the stories you repeat
yourself over and over again get taken
as fact so consistent negative self-talk
becomes your brains default way of
thinking we’re all amazing that pointing
your flaws or how we messed up but I
often do we celebrate ourselves really
cheer ourselves on and I was gonna send
super cheesy but we need to learn to
become our best friends not our biggest
critics why is this a big deal negative
self-talk is preventing you from having
the fulfilling life of your dreams for
example you want ask your question a day
you see them you’re better to go do it
then boom you get bombarded by negative
limiting thoughts I’m ugly I’m boring
they’re over my league so you never ask
you may want to start a YouTube channel
or a blog but every time you think of
starting you think no one’s gonna like
it I’m a nobody
so you never start
you may want to go to the gym get that
dream body but every time you think of
going you think I don’t know what I’m
doing I won’t bash myself again Oh back
again so what’s the point so you never
go let’s flip down his head now imagine
those negative thoughts are replaced by
positive thoughts telling you how
amazing you are before you ask that
person before starting that channel
before going to the gym how much easier
would it be to go after your dreams if
you realize that you do have negative
self-talk I can see how maybe holding
you back don’t worry about it because
thankfully we have the power to motor
brains and change your self-talk think
about a time where you dropped a bad
habit for a positive new one how did you
do through repetition the same applies
to the habitual thoughts in your head
any negative thoughts and self-talk can
be dropped like a bad habit for positive
and empowering self-talk how through
daily affirmations affirmations are
statements you defeat yourself usually
they begin with I am or I can then you
can follow up with whoever is the
officer of your negative self-talk
to begin with you’re going to encounter
a lot of resistance to affirmation
because you’re fighting years of
programming here so don’t mistake it for
an overnight solution it’s going to take
patience and consistency so find the
easiest way to implement it into your
life the easiest time Arthur and to do
it as when you’re brushing your teeth
because it’s something you’re going to
be doing every day anyway you can also
record yourself speaking affirmations
and listen back to it whatever you
decide to do really feel it with every
cell of your body like we did in the
beginning now they’re delver self-talk
we can narrow our beliefs our beliefs
control decisions and actions therefore
the results we get are a direct
reflection of our beliefs a limiting
belief as a belief you hold to be true
but it goes against your goals and
dreams so it’s only holding you back
they usually formed in childhood and
it’s strengthened by the stories you
repeat yourself they are there to keep
in that safe place your comfort zone but
where are all your goals and dreams
waiting for you
yup outside your comfort zone so
limiting beliefs are preventing you from
being everything it could be I love
using this metaphor when I explain
inside dear imagine receiving the shape
of your life and front of you is a sea
of opportunity you can go anywhere
but in reality you can’t move if you
stuck that’s because you have your
anchor then the chains of the anchor are
all the years of negative self-talk the
anchor is your limiting belief you can
make all the plans you want about how to
traverse the sea we’re not gonna get
anywhere all that anchor isto down
through affirmations we’ve got her to
weaken the self-talk chains but to truly
be free and make our dreams a reality
we’re to break free from a limiting
belief anchors everyone’s limiting
beliefs can be different I can vary in
different areas of life like career
relationships finance health think about
an area in your life we’re not getting
the results you want we’re about your
anchor be hating some common anchors are
you could feel like you’re unlovable not
enough I feel you’re helpless the list
is endless but one of the most common
and destructive anchors is feeling like
you’re not worthy almost all of us can
relate to that and I can show up in any
area of life let’s take your career for
example you’re heading for an interview
one of your dream jobs but in the back
of your mind you’re thinking found
deserve to be here I’m nothing special
that is your negative self-talk chains
the underlying assumption and belief to
those thoughts as I am not worthy of
this opportunity that is your limiting
belief an anchor that means when you
actually have the interview your actions
are they present yourself in a way
that’s defeated both in your body
language and the way you speak only
resulting in your gang rejected
reinforcing that entire cycle so once
you’ve identified your limiting beliefs
the great news is we can change it to an
empowering belief using affirmations
again for example if you if your
limiting belief was I am not worthy of
my dreams you can use the affirmation we
used in the beginning that will change
your belief changing the actions you
take changing the results you get
forming a whole new cycle never wait to
think about a dream you want to come
true it may have popped in your head at
the beginning of this talk now imagine
lying in your deathbed realizing you
never even try to make a reality because
you listen to negative self-talk
you’re allowed your limiting beliefs to
hold you back really tap into that pain
and regret you’d’ve you use that as
motivation because you only apply what
you learned today once the pain of
kingdom exceeds the pain of change I
must be from experience here because I
had no motivation to do this I was only
once I was lying in my deathbed did I
through the pain of falling onto my
negative self-talk and limiting beliefs
throughout my childhood I was always so
proud around the age of 8 I was
diagnosed with Crohn’s disease being so
young I had no clue of the severity of
the situation the only word that struck
me was incurable that word made me feel
so trapped with no escape from the pain
ever every trim I tried failed I was
like I’ve been thrown to a dark bomb
this pet with no way out almost all my
teenage years I spent locked away in my
room with only my thoughts for company
myself talk was completely negative I
hate in myself always thinking of
ourselves as broken pathetic worthless
that negative voice was with me all day
every day I began not even noticing it I
just became who I was my limiting belief
and anchors became thous of ICTA meeee
someone born to suffer back then had no
clue I had the power to change myself
talk or my limiting beliefs so I only
got worse and worse and tear when I was
18 my self talk became so destructive
I began actively contemplating suicide
soon after my health got so bad I found
myself in hospital as I lay my hospital
bed the moment that changed the Oh was a
map was where my doctor walked in and
told me that things aren’t looking good
and that he had a patient like me
and sadly she passed away you know that
night I’ll never forget that was the
night I became conscious of myself talk
and limiting beliefs they had made me
expect here I had that life pass me by I
missed her and so many opportunities
because I had taken my anchors as fact I
just cried and cried thinking back of my
life just full of regret that was well
for the first time in my life I heard a
pause to voice with her missing I was
going to make it to her and there I made
a promise to myself that if I make it
out at that Hospital I will live life
that positive voice was my first ever
affirmation that led me on my journey to
change my self talk that was also me
changing from a limiting belief to an
empowering belief where I had the
limiting belief of being a
them son born to suffer to an empowering
belief of someone who loves life and
makes the most of opportunities those
changes are made are the reason I’m
standing here today so the main thing I
were to take away from this talk is this
you’re the captain of your own ship
every thought you think and every belief
you hold is either holding you back or
creating your future you never have the
knowledge to create a positive future
for yourself and achieve your dreams
they’re waiting for you
so don’t wait until you get your
deathbed to realize you never lived
there’s a sea of opportunity out there
call if your anchor and set sail peace [Applause]
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