Change Your Self Image With These 3 Techniques (The Secret to Maintain it)

Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'll be sharing with you 3 powerful techniques for changing your self-image and then actually maintaining it. Now I've done videos on this before, but this is going to be the video of the techniques, the practical applications that we can use in order to do this. And let me start to start off by saying that I think that if you apply these techniques, it can radically change your life in a very powerful way because it's about changing ourselves from the inside out. And when we change the way that we view ourself, then we change who we are being and we change what we project out to other people, which means we get a different response from people. Now, the idea behind our self-image is understand that it is what is called a cybernetic mechanism. Now it sounds very fancy, but all it simply is is think of it like a thermostat in your house. Thermostat is a cybernetic mechanism. You have it set at 65 degrees. If it gets hotter or colder, the AC will turn on and it will revamp it to where you had it set. Now, our self-image in the similar way is a cybernetic mechanism. If you view yourself as somebody that is overweight, that is big-boned, that isn't healthy, and you try to go on a diet, what will most likely happen is you'll revert back to that self-image because the self-image hasn't yet changed along with the diet. That's why the only time time that really works is when it's a complete lifestyle change and then everything goes in alignment with it. Now, in order to change our self-image, it's about understanding, and the new information I'm sharing in this video is understanding the patterns that run our life with also the definitions about how we define ourself, of who we are. Now, everything in our life is about patterns. Most of what we think is on autopilot. Most of the habitual patterns that we have going are going to continue to perpetuate the momentum of what we experience and the direction that we go in our life. Now, when it comes to patterns, this is about what is called— and the first technique I have for you is called the scramble technique. What this involves is interrupting the pattern of the old self-image, of the old thoughts that go along with that self-image. And in order to do this, all you simply have to do is set like a trigger or something that will interrupt the patterns of you being who you are being. Now let me give an example for this. Imagine you go out and you're at either a gathering, a party, maybe a dinner, and you're around a lot of other people and you have the self-image that says that I am a shy person. Now what you'll realize is that you carry that identity into the conversations and you'll notice there's a certain pattern of thought, there's a certain pattern of identity, meaning the way you relate to all those other people that are there, and what you can begin to do is become aware of the metacognition, which means you become aware of what you're thinking. So instead of reacting, you become aware of, hey, I'm thinking that I relate to other people in this way. I'm thinking I feel uncomfortable. I'm noticing my physiology is uncomfortable as I walk around these other people, and that's how I feel with my body language. Now, as you gain that metacognition, what you can then do is simply snap yourself out of it by doing some sort of action, by changing your physiology, by doing something that just is so spontaneous and out of the norm that it wakes that autopilot mind up and makes you more aware. Now this is going to sound very dumb, but back in the day, like 5 or 6 years or 7 or 8, I don't know how many years ago it was. I used to watch that show called Jersey Shore with friends. Like it was something we watched for fun. I think every Thursday night. People have a couple of friends come over, we'd watch it. It was just like a habitual thing we would do. Now in that show, one of the guys in there, I think his name is Paulie D, he says, uh, he would say something like, oh yeah, he would just do that over and over again. And that became my trigger because I would walk around a lot. I would do it at work. I just thought it was funny to do, but I, that was like my thing. I would say, oh yeah, uh, all the time. And that was like something that loosened it up, made things not so serious. It was just something that was fun to do. But what So what I decided to do was to add that trigger, that interrupting my pattern into this process, and that's something that I've done. So if I were to go somewhere and not feel comfortable or to do anything that was, uh, and it was something not the way I preferred to be, I would interrupt that pattern. I would say, oh yeah, and then I would insert who I prefer to be. It would wake me up out of that autopilot mind and out of that kignit medic— that conditioning. Now what you can do is find your own version of that. You can use that if you want, but you can also just find some way to break up the patterns. It could be something as simple as, you know, changing your physiology of snapping yourself out of it. You could just snap yourself out of it like that and you could then wake yourself up to how you prefer to be. So interrupting the pattern is the first technique. The second technique I have for you involves taking action and doing it in a way that is inconsistent with the self-image that you currently have. So let's just go on that first example of feeling shy in public. What you could do is simply decide that today you're going to take action, even if it's just a little bit, in challenging that identity. So you could push yourself that you're going to talk to people when it would normally feel uncomfortable. So what you're going to do is when you go out today, and you're at an elevator, you're going to make small talk. You're going to start to smile to other people. That will break up the definitions that you have of saying that I am shy, I don't like talking to other people, I can't talk to other people, and it will start to break up that little like limitation that we sometimes put around ourselves, that filter. And then do this consistently every day, and what you'll find is you start to then view yourself in a completely new way. You go from the person that's afraid to talk to people to the person that can talk to people, and then with consistency to the person that likes to talk to other people. You begin to change it. Now, this is separate from being an introvert. Not saying being an introvert is not a bad thing, but we can really learn how to become comfortable with talking to other people and it can start to change the way that we view ourselves. So take action every day doing that. If it is, for example, that you feel you eat unhealthy a lot and you're not a healthy person and you have a certain self-image, start every day to take action, even if it's something small with the new self-image. So it could be instead of eating that for lunch, you eat, you drink water and eat something a little bit healthier. You go for a 5-minute walk in the morning, whatever it is, start to wire in the new identity of who you prefer to be by actually taking action and make sure it's something that's inconsistent with the current definitions that carry in the old self-image. So you're reasserting who you prefer to be. Now the third technique has to do, and I saved this for last because I talk about this a lot on the channel, so you may have heard it before, but it's understanding the power of mental rehearsal and specifically right before you go to bed at night. So when you go to bed at night, you are moving from an awake state of being between alpha and beta state and you are then going into the deeper brainwave activities of the theta state, the delta state. And you're moving on and as you move through those different brainwave states, you're going from the more conscious one to the more unconscious one. And in the theta and the delta are where the subconscious mind is most powerfully influenced. Now changing the self-image is very important for us to influence our subconscious mind. Now our subconscious mind is influenced through feeling. So if you go to— when you go to bed at night, what you can do is as you are falling asleep, view yourself in the perfect way that you prefer. Start to view yourself in specific situations and how that would feel. More than just the mental aspect of it, make it about the visceral feeling of you seeing through your own eyes and how you would respond, the kind of body language that you have, how you prefer to carry yourself. And then the trick to this is, as you feel that when you go to bed at night, know that that will be who you are when you wake up in the morning. Meaning You will carry that version of you with you. You will feel that that is who you are. You will give yourself the emotions as if that is who you are now, and that will be something that carries you throughout your day. So mental rehearsal is powerful when the feeling is evoked and when you then simply know that that's who you are when you wake up in the morning. And you can do that also, not just when you're going to sleep, but you could do it in a very meditative type exercise, but it's a very powerful way to do it. So remember, you can interrupt the scramble with the first technique, interrupt the pattern by using the scramble technique. What you can then do is take action every single day, even if it's just something little outside of the definitions you have about who you are. And then the third technique, you can use mental rehearsal to influence your subconscious mind. So I hope that helps you understand more about your self-image. Feel free to like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already. And as always, I will see you on the next video. Peace, much love. Namaste. All right, bye.