Mantras Can Help You Deal With Change

Mantras are used to change your mindset. Some practices, like yoga and meditation, help you reprogram your brain and reach a better level of self-knowledge. They can also help you cope with change when you can’t find a way to move on from something negative.

A mantra is simply a word or phrase that you repeat. That repetition tells your subconscious about the reality you want to create. This simple practice is incredibly powerful. It works because the subconscious cannot differentiate between reality and imagination.

The subconscious part of your mind believes whatever you tell it. 

If you are walking in a park and see a dog chasing a butterfly, your vision sends that experience to your brain. The objective subconscious doesn’t care one way or another about the dog, the butterfly, or the fact that this made you smile. It simply accepts the situation as real.

You can also convince it of something that is entirely fictitious. Imagine that the dog jumps onto the butterfly’s back. The butterfly expands in size and flies the dog through the park. Then the dog and butterfly morph into a dragon that leads you to his cave and shares all his gold and treasures with you.

That’s reality to your subconscious. It’s real because you told your subconscious it was real, even though it’s obviously imagined. Whatever you tell it repeatedly is what it accepts as the truth.

This is why constantly engaging in negative self-talk creates a reality you would rather avoid. Whatever you tell your subconscious is what it will try to create in your reality.

Before, During, and After Some Important Change, Use Mantras to Help You Cope

Change isn’t always the greatest thing in the world. It can be downright nasty from time to time. It can also be wonderful. You build up the courage to ask your dream date out to dinner, and you are surprised that they would love to go. Parents have a child. You land that big promotion at work.

Those are all wonderfully positive things. Even so, they are still changes. If you’re not careful, positive changes can be as disruptive in your life as their negative counterparts. Use the following mantras to help you cope with any type of change and how it may wreck your life.

• “Things are changing around me, and that’s okay.”
• “Not all change is good. That’s okay. I can deal with this.”
• “I’ve experienced a lot of negative change in the past. And I’m still here. I am a survivor.”
• “This change is wonderful and positive. I am worthy of good things happening to me.”

Create your own mantra. Repeat it a few times each morning and each night. Don’t wait for change to happen. Make this a daily practice. Then, when some big change occurs, positive or negative, your mantra can help you balance your emotions and make the best out of the situation.