It is imperative to your success to find and eliminate these negative programs. This is the whole point of personal development.

Over the years some great methods have been developed and improved which allow you to eliminate all your negative mental programming. However, I have found that the hardest thing to do is not removing these negative beliefs but finding them in the first place. So this should be your first goal ' to seek out your negative programming. Now, before you embark on this exercise please keep in mind that you do not need to know where these beliefs came from or who it was that gave them to you. All you want to do is find them and remove them. Leave blame out of it!

Begin by creating a goal. Write it down as though it has already happened. Read this statement aloud and then close your eyes. Create as much positive emotion around this mental picture as you can. Enjoy your mental image for as long as it feels good. Before long you will begin to notice negative thoughts surfacing. Take a blank piece of paper and on it begin to scribble down all the negative thoughts that enter your head. Don't judge them, suppress them or get annoyed at them, just let them flow.

Now once you have a list of all the negative thoughts connected to your goal you can begin to remove them.

Look over your list and analyse all the statements you produced. Really think about them. Are they true? Is there any basis for them? Evaluate each one in turn and think of ways to overcome each belief. There are hundreds of great self improvement tools designed to help you do this but here is a simple one to get you started.

Take one negative statement and think about what that means to you. Identify the underlying belief behind that thought. Is it a lack of self-worth, low self-confidence, insecurity, feeling not-good-enough or just a lame belief you picked-up from someone else that you have never given any real thought to?

Challenge the belief. Ask yourself questions every time you recall that belief. Question the authenticity of the belief. Identify the emotion that you feel when you think about that belief. Really allow yourself to feel that feeling. When you allow this to happen you will find that the negative emotions you are feeling get very strong just before they leave. When you allow the negative emotion, which is driving the negative belief, to fully express itself and dissipate you will find yourself much more positive and without the negative thoughts you had previously.

So everyday speak aloud your goal statement in the morning and visualize it as being reality. Create as much positive emotion around this mental scene as you can. Some time later that day, preferably at night, repeat this procedure. However, this time take a blank piece of paper and scribble down all the negative thoughts that begin to come to mind as you do it. Then take each one in turn and give it some real thought. Allow these negative emotions to fully express themselves. Do not try to suppress these thoughts or the emotions behind them. Then allow them to fully express themselves in your mind and body and they will dissipate. This can be hard to do as we have been taught to suppress our emotions and have probably been doing it for many years. When you begin to feel the emotions getting stronger you will have a strong urge to suppress them but don't! When the negative emotions behind your beliefs are allowed to fully surface and express themselves they naturally dissipate. As they dissipate so do the thoughts and beliefs behind them.

You will find that you become much more positive in a very short time and find it much easier to achieve your goals.

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