Your Self-Talk - The Power Of Because

There are often negative signals that are hidden behind the word if. I came to realize this while my fellow Million Mind March tribe and I were Masterminding the book ‘The Power of the Subconscious Mind’ by Dr. Joseph Murphy.

You may be sending signals you do not wish to your subconscious mind - especially when if is used as an excuse, as in ‘if only I had …’ or ‘if only I could ….’

How about replacing the “if only ..” mentality with a “because“ statement.

As an illustration, consider the famous poem “IF” by Rudyard Kipling.

This goes

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowances for their doubting too,

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stop and build them up with worn out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss
And lose and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve their turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the will which says to them - Hold on;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son.

Now try saying this out loud replacing the ifs with because.

It becomes

BECAUSE I can keep my head when all about me
Are losing theirs and blaming it on me,

BECAUSE I can trust myself when all men doubt me
But make allowances for their doubting too,

BECAUSE I can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise;

BECAUSE I can dream - and not make dreams my master

BECAUSE I can think - and not make thoughts my aim;

BECAUSE I can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

BECAUSE I can bear to hear the truth I've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things I gave my life to, broken
And stop and build them up with worn out tools:

BECAUSE I can make one heap of all my winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss
And lose and start again at my beginnings
And never breathe a word about my loss;

BECAUSE I can force my heart and nerve and sinew
To serve their turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in me,
Except the will which says to them - Hold on;

BECAUSE I can talk with crowds and keep my virtue
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

BECAUSE neither foes nor loving friends can hurt me

BECAUSE all men count with me, but none too much;

BECAUSE I can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Mine is the earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more – I am a man, my son.

Can you feel the power change? Can you feel the ownership change?

Use it in your self-talk. Your subconscious mind will know how serious you are. You will soon feel the difference and see the results.