How to Believe Your New Identity

In Victorious Emotions, Wendy Backlund teaches us to rehearse past successes, revisit joyful experiences, and declare who we are becoming before we see the evidence. Tonight, reinforce the good, rehearse your new identity, and remember: an apple tree is still an apple tree before it produces fruit. 

Transcript

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Welcome back to Night Shift with Justin S. King, How to Transform Your Life One Night at a Time. Tonight I was reading the book Victorious Emotions by Wendy Backlund, which is a book about emotional processing with a spiritual twist to it. And Wendy suggests writing down a few positive experiences each night and then replaying them in your mind. Remember what happened, but also reconnect with how it felt. Emotionally charged thoughts can help reinforce new pathways in the brain. Then rehearse those moments again in the morning. She also suggests you read other people's success stories, particularly in the Bible, and make declarations about who you are becoming or who you are, even when you don't fully believe them yet. She shared a powerful quote or idea when she felt like she should be a writer. So she kept saying, or she kept saying, I am publishing books, I'm writing books, and she felt the inspiration that she should say, I am an author. And she felt resistance to that. And she said that God asked her a question Do you call an apple tree an apple tree even before it creates the apples? And this allowed her to take on the identity of being an author. Because an apple tree is already an apple tree before it creates the fruit. The fruit is simply evidence of what was true all along. So tonight add emotion and movement to your declaration.

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Sit taller, breathe deeper, and say it as you mean it in the present.

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Write down some positive experiences from the day. Feel those emotions. Go back through your life and write down positive experiences of peace and hope and feel them. And then in the morning, rehearse those.

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So don't wait for the fruit to grow before you name the tree.

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Rehearse the identity you know in your heart that you already are now. And then let your actions begin to grow from it. That's it for tonight's episode of Night Shift. My name is Justin S. King, and I help entrepreneurs find peace tonight, tomorrow, and for the rest of their lives through sleep optimization, emotion regulation, and discovering their purpose.

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Good night.