What to Say When you Talk To Yourself

by Shad Helmstetter

Book Overview

Discover Dr. Shad Helmstetter's wildly popular self-help book What to Say When You Talk to Your Self, now updated with new information for the twenty-first century, and learn how to reverse the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671708821
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

What Are You Really Telling Yourself?

I tend to lean mostly to those books one would consider as "spiritual" but this is a book I have no qualms in recommending to those who may not be that enthusiastic about the "spiritual side" of life even though I know in my heart that all things - regardless of what they may look like - are spiritual at the deepest level of things. This was a book I got when I was desperately looking for things to get me out of the hole I had dug for myself. I had to come to terms with the fact that I was responsible for my life. I could no longer blame my parents, or my teachers, or former priests or preachers...I was responsible for me. How scary! How intimidating! How freeing! How liberating! The first thing I had to come face to face with was how I was relating to myself because how we relate to ourselves is usually the same way we relate to the world and I became painfully aware that I was relating to myself in a not so friendly of a manner. I thought I was a loser, a disappointment, a failure. I thought I was a mistake, an accident, God's screw-up. It's terrible the things we call ourselves. But then I looked at my world and it seemed as though I had every right to call myself these things because my world reflected these thoughts. I had no idea that there was a direct correlation between my inner thoughts and my outer world. We can keep nothing a "secret" to the universe because the universe will always gladly reproduce our deepest beliefs. "Oh, you think you are a loser?" BAM "Here's something to make you think the way..." "Oh, you feel like a dissapointment?" WHAM "How's this for disappointing?" Of course, the reverse of this is also true and that's not because the universe is neither positive or negative but is always completely neutral and whatever it is that we believe about ourselves, about others, about life in general is exactly what we will receive. The basic law of life is just as Jesus the Christ said, "It is done unto you AS you believe..." 99.9% of our overall beliefs are formed by what we are saying to ourselves about ourselves. Even if we are calling someone else "an idiot" it's not really a reflection of the other person as much as it is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. I read this book thoughtfully and willing to change some of my "inner scripts" and I thought at first that I was lying to myself by saying these positive things about myself and my life but I continued these things to myself and I actually began to slowly believe a few of those things and what was really strange was that my life was beginning to change in the same direction as my thoughts. The more tolerance I showed myself, the more tolerance I showed to my world. The more I told myself that I was smart enough or capable enough or strong enough, the more my world would give me these experiences to prove that these things were indeed, true. We never have any reason to call ourselves ugly or fat or stupid or dumb. We must remember that we were created ou

the missing link

Have you ever read an inspiring 'self-help' book or heard a tremendous motivational speaker that made you want to make significant positive changes in your life? When you tried to implement those changes, did you notice that they were temporary at best, and that you eventually fell back into the same self-defeating patterns that held you prisoner in the first place?Helmstetter rightly points out that the majority of information that our subconscious mind receives, from both external and internal sources, is negative. At any given time within our subconscious, as many as three negative thoughts are duking it out with one positive. Not knowing right from wrong, our subconscious chooses to believe the most dominant thought pattern. Unless we feed more positive messages to our subconscious, we become a prisoner to negative thought patterns.What to Say reveals a simple way to overcome the onslaught of negative thought by literally feeding positive thoughts into our subconscious through Self-Talk. More than just affirmation statements, Helmstetter shows how to get specific and attack problems at their source.This book will serve you well on its own, and will be even more effective as a catalyst to help you apply success principles from other books and speakers. This simple concept of Self-Talk will allow you to take success principles that are common knowledge, and convert them to common practice.Larry Hehn, author of Get the Prize: Nine Keys for a Life of Victory

Worth the effort

I have been reading a lot of books lately which have similar view points on the "subconscious" mind. They are: Think and Grow Rich, Richest Man in Babylon,Man's Search for Meaning, The Man Who Tapped The Secrets of The Universe and The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success. Now this one!I got started by attending 3 Tony Robbins seminars (2 UPW's and Date With Destiny) and have been fascinated with the change in my attitude about every aspect of life as well as my positive attitude which is PERMANENT!!. This book in particular is a "how to" guide for re-programming the subconscious mind. I cannot say for sure that the processes in this book will work for everyone, (you'd need some significant levels of faith) but I can say that my experience has made me a better person to be around and has raised my standards as a person significantly. There are many benefits for anyone who is looking to squeeze more out of life, I strongly urge those folks who care to raise their bar to read this book. Anyone who has read the others I mentioned above, and have absolute faith in themselves and the UNIVERSE, will enjoy and get alot out of this particular book.