Our thoughts are tricky things to control. Our beliefs and habits are often hidden from us, but these are two things that have significant influence over our thoughts. Your thoughts influence your actions. If you want to change your behavior and results, it’s essential to gain control over your thoughts.

Controlling thoughts has been a battle for thousands of years and continues to be a difficult challenge. Fortunately, psychology has grown considerably over the last 20 years on this important topic. Now, you can learn to reprogram your thoughts if you’re motivated to do so.

Use these techniques to gain control of your actions by reprogramming your thoughts:

1. Affirmations

Affirmations are thoughts that you choose for yourself. You can listen to them, read them silently, or read them aloud. Affirmations require a lot of repetition and emotional involvement, but they can be highly effective.

  • Create affirmations that support the pursuit and achievement of your goals.
  • Create affirmations that address your weaknesses.
  • Establish a schedule for exposing yourself to your affirmations.
  • Be patient. Expect that it might be several weeks before you begin to see results.

2. Learn

Increasing or altering your knowledge in many areas can have a considerable impact on your thoughts.

  • Philosophy. If you view yourself or the world differently, your thoughts will change. Take a brief look at Stoic and Buddhist philosophy, for example. These viewpoints are vastly different than how most people view the world. Become a student of philosophy, and you’ll learn a lot.
  • Success. There’s a lot most of us could learn about success. Goal setting, willpower, perseverance, and communication are just a few topics. Knowing more about these types of topics will change the way you view success, and your thoughts will also change.

3. Ask Yourself Questions

Questions change your focus and thoughts. Asking yourself questions like, “What’s good about this situation?” or “What are my greatest strengths?” or “What should I be working on right now?” will change your thinking.

  • Use questions to redirect your attention and thoughts, which is one of the easiest ways to change.
  • Develop the habit of asking the right questions.

4. Visualization

Visualize something negative and notice your thoughts. Now, visualize something positive and notice your thoughts. Compare. There’s no doubt that visualization impacts your thoughts and beliefs. Use this to your advantage:

  • Visualize achieving your goals.
  • Think about yourself completing the tasks you need to do each day and visualize it.
  • Visualize yourself being the type of person you want to be.
  • Visualize yourself mastering a skill you want to learn.

The time right after awakening and just before falling asleep can be exceptionally efficient for visualization.

5. Attack Limiting Beliefs

Your beliefs primarily create your thoughts. Eliminating negative beliefs and adding positive beliefs will drastically change your thoughts. Take a negative belief and apply the following process:

  • Where did I get this belief? Is it my own? Did someone else give it to me?
  • What is the basis for this belief? Is the source valid? How do I know it’s true?
  • What is this belief costing me? What would happen if I believed the opposite instead?
  • Am I willing to let go of this belief for a month and see what happens?

Final Thoughts

You’re not as easy to program as a computer, but you’re more programmable than you think! If you’re struggling to manage your behavior and get yourself to do what you know you should be doing or what you have always dreamed of doing, try reprogramming your thoughts.

Many of our thinking patterns are purely habit and very challenging to alter. But challenging doesn’t mean impossible, so start! Do it today!

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