This is a contribution by Kathryn Britt
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” ~Buddha
I used to teach Adult Upgrading. My students were people who had never completed grade school and/or high school. For a variety of reasons, they were now ready to try it again.
New students would say, “I wasn’t ever any good at school.” “I can’t do math.” “I hate fractions.”
It’s my belief that our self-talk is programming ourselves for our statements to be true.
Those students thought they’d been stating the facts, not revealing programmed beliefs.
My work was less about teaching math than it was about coaching them toward a change in their beliefs about themselves.
“I never ag
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