Get my Beginner’s Guide to Fascia Release (FREE) here 👉🏽 <a href="https://mobilitymastery.com/beginners-guide-to-fascia-release/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://mobilitymastery.com/beginners-guide-to-fascia-release/</a><br /><br />Support me to keep creating videos and posts to help you get out of pain and find your freedom by making a donation 👉 <a href="https://bit.ly/3iusy26" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://bit.ly/3iusy26</a><br /><br />Successful self-healers either already possess, or learn to cultivate, an optimistic mindset. <br /><br />When it comes to healing the mind and body, I’ve seen repeatedly that doubt, skepticism and a pessimistic mindset will keep us stuck. But more than this, I believe it’s critical to dig in and understand why we develop pessimistic mindsets in the first place. <br /><br />Simply trying to outsmart your subconscious or change your mindset with willpower rarely works and often backfires. Beyond this, we can often fall into even more insidious beliefs if we try to overcome a pessimistic mindset only to fail: we might feel defective, broken, ashamed or begin to hate ourselves for not being able to do what other people appear to do so easily. <br /><br />I do not believe there is such a thing as a born optimist, or a born pessimist. <br />I believe every human being is a born optimist. None of us would be walking and talking adults if we were born pessimistic! Babies learn to walk by falling and falling and falling but they never ever give up. Babies have to learn to talk by first making grunting noises and drooling everywhere while sounding ridiculous, but they don’t let embarrassment or shame stop them from continuing to learn and eventually they triumph. <br /><br />Pessimism, in my opinion, is a learned strategy deployed in childhood as a protection mechanism to mitigate the emotional damages that come from repeatedly enduring the pain of disappointment. <br /><br />When people show up to work with me who begin to use pessimistic language (seeing failure instead of success, seeing limitations instead of possibilities, expressing doubt instead of hope/inspiration etc), I know it’s time to get curious and dig in. I never try to persuade a skeptical person to be optimistic, and I encourage you to avoid this with yourself. <br /><br />Instead, I get curious with a genuinely welcoming attitude to whatever truth they arrive at for themselves. <br /><br />In almost every case what I’ve discovered is that at some point in the pessimistic person’s childhood their trust was broken one too many times. The cost of trusting or hoping only to feel disappointment yet again becomes too great a burden, so they begin to assume the worst ahead of time. If disappointment is one of the most painful experiences in your childhood, then being injured or frustrated or stuck isn’t as bad as believing you could get free, only to meet that old familiar emotion again: disappointment. It’s safer (emotionally) to believe in limitations than possibilities for this pers<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Fye97PCPQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Fye97PCPQ</a>