Today I’d like to talk about a very important tool to use when you’re working on overcoming your food addiction. The tool is positive self talk.
It’s not the same thing as positive thinking. It goes deeper than that. Even if your conscious mind does not yet believe it, you can reprogram the way you think about things, including food and your food addiction.
Positive self talk is about those conversations we have with ourselves that talk us into and out of things that may or may not be good for us. Positive self talk is our front line support system.
You can change your perspective using positive self talk. Making positive statements and reciting daily affirmations related to your goals will internalize positive feelings about yourself and what you are doing. Using this technique, you can completely renovate your belief system.
It’s food for the Soul, and if you are an emotional eater or a true food addict, nourishing the spirit is extremely important.
No matter what you do physically to overcome an obstacle in your life, it is what you do for your Spirit that will carry you through the hardest of times. I think a food addiction falls into that category.
Since food addiction is born out of feelings of low self-esteem, shame, and isolation, among other things, inspiration and self-acceptance can play a large part in the recovery process of a food addict.
One of my favorite things is a set of HarMoney Prosperity Cards that I bought more than 20 years ago. These simple affirmation cards look like little $100 bills. Each one has a statement that reminds you that abundance is a choice. They are very inspiring.
Saying these affirmations each day invites prosperity into all areas of your life. You can learn to go from thinking like a victim to thinking like a champion, from feeling helpless to feeling empowered.
They’re simple little sayings that feed and comfort the Spirit and calm the mind. True prosperity and harmony are neighbors in the heart.
Whatever prosperity means to you , if you are letting emotional eating turn you away from your dreams, you will not find it until you can get yourself back on track.
Even though food addiction is a good reason to feel hopeless, depressed and abandoned, it is not a good enough reason to push prosperity away from yourself.
To attract prosperity, you must relax. If you are battling a weight problem because of a food addiction, you need inspiration to motivate you into action.
I recommend HarMoney because of the gentle way each card reminds you that you are somebody. You are special. You deserved to have good things in your life.
Prosperity will not be given to you automatically. You must draw it to you as a magnet attracts steel.
When you stuff down your feelings with food, the temporary comfort fades when your body reveals the consequences of your emotional eating spree in the mirror.
That’s when you have to be strong and fight back with positive self talk. HarMoney will give you all kinds of ideas about what to say to yourself.
It’s up to you to attract the things you want in your life. Like attracts like. Become the best you that you can be.
When you like yourself, you will attract the people you want and need in your life. Then you will not need emotional eating as a source of comfort.
Don’t let a food addiction deprive you of the kind of life you desire. Use whatever tools you need and build the life you want.
Do yourself a favor and check out HarMoney Prosperity Cards. They’re awesome.
Stuff your Spirit with inspiration and fill your heart with love. Soul food of the best kind with words that remind you that you are already perfect. And you are loved.