 This is one of my favorite ones is there. I am statements. I am statements are so Incredibly powerful because they can they can determine your interest very very quickly and In order for me to go for over a decade into a mental Unwell space. I had to have the identity of I am anxious. I am depressed. I'm a loser I was both at the most likely to fail in the class of 66 not true But that that kind of opinion, you know, I fail at everything I tell I never complete anything They were all I am statements all of them In order to get myself out of that hole. I had to look for better. I am statements Right they don't need to be extraordinary, but it can be I am powerful. I'm articulate. I Am cool. I am good. I'm a great walker. I'm a great walker. Do you notice that? I'm pretty good at it I didn't fall down once By the way, notice that they don't necessarily have to be true You don't have to actually believe it Right now. It's more about thinking. How would I like to show up? You know, I would like to show up as sort of calm and in control. Okay I am calm and in control Even if there's a little voice going nay or none just ignore that for now and we're gonna practice Writing down I am what you would like to be Yeah, yeah, good it So just throw it in just throw it in and if one negative one that you consider judge as negative comes in Just write it down and move on don't make an issue of it That's okay because we're everything out way, you know when a person says I am anxious. That's not actually always true Have you ever been with a person that is really depressed on there at the party and they're having a ball? I have So no one is everything all the time It's just sometimes the self-talk that we keep running. It's not very healthy So this one is good for that changing the self-talk to something that we want to craft So in this case, we're taking ownership We're taking mastery of our self-talk and we started educating our brain to serve us not to have mastery over Us got it go. This is one of my this is my favorite. I Am I am creative? I am good with plans. I Am busting I am doing something about it. I'm a problem solver I am good at taking action. I get the job done So wherever you are, that's fine How who found this one addictive? It's a bit addictive isn't it? How does it how well what's going on? What's happening on the inside? What are you noticing? Better service team right there. There it was Go and figure that one out How many people have you met that one better service team and they're looking externally for it? Is the self-talk isn't it? What else did you notice? Yeah, Daryn Yeah, what's the feeling around that? It's good, isn't it? Look the world will be quite happy. We're being bombarded every single day trying to make us feel like we lack something You have to counteract it at some point The whole advertising media around us is designed to make you feel like you need something and then you don't have it You're incomplete and You're getting Thousands of those messages every single day. So unless you don't do that damage. What's gonna happen, right? We're being attacked as self-esteem our beingness is being attacked on a on a daily basis So this is a pretty cool exercise. Yeah Very nice as well about it's that in order to write it down. You have to visualize it even just momentarily Yeah, so you have this projection in your mind of oh, that's what it looks like to be Creative cool calm collected peaceful kind whatever it is and that carries through No, they athletes use that technique. I'll visualize myself running the race perfectly and it makes a difference Our people in hospital who've lost use of their legs for example one of the exercises they do is Visualize myself walking again because we know that it actually moves the tiniest little micro muscles in your body When you visualize something in your mind, did you know that? There's actually a physical movement happening So if you've done studies around this so if I were to say to you Imagine yourself Right Getting up out of your chair and walking to the door and just pushing the door and walking into the lobby Everyone in this room Their body just reacted and they there at some level every single muscle in their body Reacted with the movements the imagination of walking there the muscles needed to do that activity. We're just activated it up It's interesting, isn't it? So the I am statement is very very powerful It creates new neural pathways that will make it more like if you keep doing it It will make it make it very likely that you will end up that person Hi, I'm Emmy Golding director of psychology for the workplace mental health institute We hope you liked the video if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up We have more and more videos being released each week So when you subscribe you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself your colleagues and your loved ones