What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by Shad Helmstetter

Author:Shad Helmstetter [Helmstetter, Shad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

RECORDED SELF-TALK

I first had the idea of listening to self-talk in 1968. At that time, I was developing early versions of self-improvement tape programs for a sales company. I wrote and recorded one program in particular which consisted of an early, somewhat primitive form of “I can do it!” self-talk as a motivational pep-talk cassette their salespeople could listen to when their sales were down. At that same time, I had also written a self-talk tape for myself which I had used to help me reach some of the professional and financial goals I had set for myself.

I suppose if I listened to those original cassette tapes now, I would be a little embarrassed about their distinctly nonprofessional quality. But they had met with some success, and not only had a few of the salespeople profited by listening to them, but I, too, had profited just by listening now and then to some reassuring words of encouragement from rather inexpertly written and recorded home-brew cassette tapes.

Years later, in the 1980s, I would rekindle the idea when I was having trouble losing weight. Before trying self-talk to help me lose the weight I wanted to lose, I had tried just about everything else: diets that didn’t work, weight-loss clinics that I didn’t keep going to, self-created diet programs (usually called starving yourself), and combination programs which consisted of things like exercising for thirty minutes and then drinking nothing but grapefruit juice.

Somehow it always seemed that the more I exercised, the hungrier I got, and the more weight I took off, the more I felt I should reward myself with “a little something extra”—which usually amounted to something I shouldn’t eat because it would put more pounds back on than the pounds I had just taken off. My story was just like the stories of tens of thousands of other weight-conscious dieters who took it off and put it right back on.

So I decided to try listening to self-talk to help me lose weight. When you want to fix a problem, you have to fix more than the symptoms—you have to give yourself a complete diet of self-talk covering every facet and every phase of your life that created the problem, or every area of your thinking that was tying you to the old mental programs. So I listened to self-talk that got behind the symptoms and into the causes, self-talk that would put me back in control, pep me up, and keep me at it.

The best part of it, other than the results I achieved, was that it didn’t take any extra time or effort out of my busy day. It was easy enough to do; I simply changed the part of the soundtrack of my life, and listened in the background. My brain, and the self-talk, took care of the rest.

Listening to self-talk worked, I lost the weight, and the success of doing that led to the realization that anyone could benefit from listening to recorded self-talk for any area of their lives that needed help.

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