A Simple Way To Change Your Thoughts That Works For Super High Achievers

Published: Sun, 07/28/19

Ezine 182 www.bodytypology.com Sue-Anne Hickey

info@bodytypology.com 514-577-1963

In This Edition:

Disrupting

Why we focus on negative thoughts

Be The Warrier Gatekeeper of Your Mind!

Hello

How to be a Disrupt-her

My book club's latest choice is the book Disrupt-her by Miki Agrawal. Miki is a Montreal born, extremely successful, 40 year old entrepreneur with her most notable business being THINX, a company focused around women’s underwear specifically built to be worn during a woman’s menstrual cycle.

Named one of 2018 Fast Company’s “Most Creative People”,collectively her 3 brands are valued at over $150 million.

Disrupt-her is about disrupting the the social norm.

Society is ..... Disrupt-her is.....

Compliant...................................Curious

Subservient................................Strong

Conformist.................................Creative

Obedient....................................Assertive

Imitator.......................................Initiator

Staying quiet..............................Speaking up

Rigid...........................................Experimental

Submission to status quo...........Innovative to status quo

My book club group getting ready to smash our coconuts... a releasing exercise we did with the last awesome book we read, It's Not Your Money by Tosha Silver

Why we focus on negative thoughts

When I work with my clients I tell them that working with our thoughts is about 95% or more of what we do. As it is the thoughts that control what we choose to eat and whether we choose to move our body or not, etc.

All too often I seem to resort back to thinking about what is not working in my life and how to fix it, rather than focusing on all of the amazing things that are going on. And I know that based on the law of attraction, it's obviously best not to do that!

Miki surmises that the reason we care so much about the negative stuff is that we've been programmed from the beginning of time, as our survival depended on staying out of danger, so our brain developed systems to notice danger and respond to it.

Be The Warrier Gate Keeper of Your Mind

In her book, Disrupt-Her, Miki talks about how she worked with a coach to help her through the times of being bombarded with "inflamed exaggerated headlines."

Her coach turned it into a game to make it easier. I Love this!

"You're the Warrier Gatekeeper of your mind. Every thought that enters your brain has to get past your warrier gatekeeper."

"Your game is to CATCH what comes to the gate and give it a name.

"Like this, Oh, there's Eeyore coming to the gate to mope and wallow about something like losing his tail, wah, wah. Or there's Johnny Drama coming to the gate trying to bring Drama into my thoughts."

I've been playing the game and noticing some of my own.

Wilma the worrier, often is very sneaky at trying to slip past my warrier gatekeeper, And Patty the planner seems to be determined to constantly stay front and center, especially in the middle of the night... organizing, over-analyzing and figuring out everything, she drains my energy if I let her.... no more!

" Give each thought a name and tag them. Because every time you let any of those things in, they take over your body, and you can't think straight anymore because you've gone into a negative thought spiral."

"It's not about noticing like meditation, noticing is passive. Catching is far more proactive. When you catch it, have fun with it, like, "Ha, gotcha." And you can organize it, like, that's a conversation I need to have only on Tuesdays at 11 AM.

Catch these thoughts with love and humor, not in a way that tries to make you feel badly."

I'm really excited to play this new game and develop my warrier gatekeeper muscle.

Miki says, "I was excited to practice Catching each thought before they entered the gate of my mid, which gave me full control over my emotional state, WOW. (...) These negative thoughts become a training ground for positive self-improvement, which can then become an overall positive experience. We can always change our perspective and turn challenging experiences into positive ones."

Exactly!

So excited to practice this, how about you? Let me know how it works!

To your natural health!

Sue-Anne

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