Who Controls You
Who controls you? Who makes all the small decisions in your day to day life? Who is holding your remote control? Who decides if you exercise or instead lie on the couch and watch others lose weight on the TV program “The Biggest Loser”.
Is it you or is it that tiny voice in your head. You may be asking, “What tiny voice?”. It’s that same voice that stops you from waking up to exercise when the alarm rings at 6 am. It says, “You need the rest. You work very hard. Sleep for another 10 minutes.” I am sure we have all had battles with that voice. It can be extremely convincing and manipulative.
Yes, we have all heard that voice in our head. The funny thing about this voice is that the more you give in to it, the more powerful it becomes. After some time, it looks like you have an alter ego that is making all your decisions. This is when some people don’t even know why they do some of the things they do. They say that they just can’t control themselves.
The powerful voice in the head is also the reason why people procrastinate. “Don’t worry, you can do it later”, the voice tells you. This goes on and on and on.
You need to take the power away from this voice. As was mentioned before, the only way that the voice can gain more influence in your life is when you continue to give it prominence.
Why Does the Voice Sabotage your Goals
The voice in your head has a duty to preserve your energy levels. Nature has wired us such that we conserve as much energy as possible. In pre-historic times, one was only required to spend energy on looking for food, preserving life of self and children as well as pro-creating.
Fast forward to the modern world and now you have a person with a pre-historic operating system working in an ultra modern world. How on earth is the operating system going to comprehend the need to get on the treadmill and slog it out for one hour. It just does not make sense. That’s when the voice comes in to convince you to forget about the treadmill.
What Can You Do to Regain Power from the Voice
The first step is to set some worthwhile goals. This could be a goal to just wake up at 6 am for three times a week to do your exercise. This is a simple enough goal. Simple as it may be, you will have to fight tooth and nail to get out of the clutches of your bed when the alarm rings at 6am. It’s as though the bed has got a hold on you.
The voice will be trying it’s best to convince you to go back to sleep. You have to prevail over the voice. Stick to your goals and carry out what you have planned to do. The more you do this the lesser the influence of the voice. After a while the voice becomes softer and softer. It looses its grip over you.
Achieving your goals and getting done what you had planned to do also gives a tremendous boost of endorphins that provide that “feel good” sensation through out the day. It is the satisfaction that you have accomplished what you set-out to do.
Set a goal to win the battle against the voice. This battle won’t be easy but then again, all of our most difficult and biggest battles are fought in the silent chambers of our soul. Keep at it and you will prevail.
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30/10/2009
Just thought that often it´s exhausting to battle an inner voice with another one. To figure out who is in control, have to become aware of who we really are.. and this is the consciousess behind the speech, that which hears the voice talking.