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When You Want Success but Subconsciously Sabotage It
Why is self-sabotage something we need to talk about?
Firstly, the Word says people perish for lack of knowledge, Hosea 4:6.
Secondly, we can be living our lives, hoping for change, in a good way, and realize that things are not always working out the way we want it. This could be a result of self-sabotage.
The definition of sabotage is behavior or thoughts, especially of an involuntary or unconscious nature, that are harmful to one’ s own interests or development. Thinking in a way that is harmful to oneself.
For myself, one of the things I had self-sabotage in was emotional eating which resulted in excess weight on my body. I became aware, did something about it, and am healed from emotional eating. However, the additional weight hadn’ t come off my body yet.
One night, my son bought home a piece of cake for me given to him from my daughter-in-love and I ate it right away. After I ate it, I thought to myself, why did I eat it, why didn’ t I leave it for the next day because it was late.
A short time after, I heard in my spirit, you see food and you eat it. This was the self-sabotage programming that was playing in my spirit( subconscious mind), so this self-sabotaging thought was why I wasn’ t getting the excess weight off my body.
We must be aware of our internal thoughts, especially what’ s operating in our spirit( subconscious mind).
The thing is, I know where the programming came from, my former spouse didn’ t like that I had gained weight and would say to me you see food and eat it, and it got in my spirit. I am so happy to be aware of why I was self-sabotaging myself with regards to the excess weight so that I could do something about it.
By: Noreen Henry Victorious Living Strategist www. VictoriousLiving4U. com
I encourage you to think about your life and when things don’ t go the way you are expecting them to, what is sabotaging it? What is playing in your spirit( subconscious programming) that has created the self-sabotage that you need to deal with to change it?
One of the solutions I use is to ask myself why? Like I did when I ate the piece of cake instead of not leaving it for the next day. The answer came and I now changed those words and am no longer self-sabotaging myself with regards to seeing food and eating it.
Remember to check in with yourself, on a continual basis, to be beware of any self-sabotaging behaviors.
It is possible to overcome selfsabotage!
Noreen N. Henry Victorious Living Strategist http:// www. victoriousliving4u. com /
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