Your self-image is your internal thermostat. How to set it the right way?

Self-image is like an internal thermostat that determines your results in life. Therefore, it is essential to set it the right way.

In mindset management, self-image is where the work begins.

You make mental adjustments from where you are to where you want to be.

When doing it right, you can manifest a new life that you’ve never imagined.

Sounds easy? Let’s find out.

So, What is Self-Image?

In this post, the self-image refers to how you see yourself.

Most of us do not question our self-image because we either do not know what it means or never examine it.

So, let’s look at what self-image is.

Self-image is how you see yourself. If you see yourself as a successful person who deserves everything in the world and believes that you can have everything you want, you will behave in a way that allows you to express that belief and get the results you desire.

In short, your self-image (your vision in the conscious mind) + belief (vision invested with emotions at the subconscious level)+action = your result in life.

How is Self-Image Formed?

A part of your self-image came from your outside environment when you were young.

Whoever gave you their opinion of how they saw you became fixed in your subconsciousness, and a collection of their opinions become true to you, and with time their opinions of you become YOUR Opinion of yourself.

Aside from that, A part of your self-image also derives from your DNA that runs several generations before you.

Therefore, if you want to upgrade your self-image, you will need to not only overwrite a bunch of fixed ideas that were planted in your subconsciousness when you were a kid, you would also need to overwrite a bunch of ideas that were planted in you by your ancestors.

Why is Self-Image Important?

Like an internal thermostat, your self-image controls your thinking and behaviour patterns to ensure that they stay ‘on course”.

Any of these patterns that deviate from the image you see yourself will be adjusted to ensure that you “stay on course.”

So if you set your internal temporary at 70 degrees, you will be sure that you cannot go above or below it.

Because the vision of who you think you are will ‘correct” your thought and behaviour patterns to make sure that your result is continuously at 70 degrees.

Here is An Example

For example, say that I never saw myself as the type of person who could win any lottos ( say I believe luck comes from hard work), and I believe that was the truth.

As a result, I would never spend money to buy a ticket (behaviour). When there are times that the lotto winnings were huge, I would tell myself out of buying them since I did not see myself as a lotto winner.

And indeed, I’ve never bought lottos, and as a result, I never won any lottos in my life.

In a way, our self-image pre-determines what we can get in life.

So, How Can We Change Our Self-Image

A change in self-image is done through mental adjustments.

And the adjustment is a conscious process by making a new decision every moment when you catch your old mental and behavioural habits; you consciously shift it to the new patterns that you desire.

So how do you make the adjustments? Here are the suggestions:

1)Use your imagination to choose a new version of you that you want to see;

2)Describe the feeling as if you have already become that version;

Feel it while you are writing down the feeling and believe what you are describing is true;

3)Act whatever action comes to your mind when you are in alignment with such feelings;

4)Repeat the process daily;

5)Expect changes to take place in your life.