Ep. 256: Why Your Attention is Something You Must Protect to Prevent Self Sabotage

It is so common for autoimmune patients to pay attention to the negative aspects of autoimmunity or themselves. When we pay attention to the negativity, we often end up asking ourselves the wrong questions. Some questions might include "why am I always sick?", "why am I so broken?", "why am I so tired?", "why do I sabotage myself?" When you ask yourself these types of questions, your mind will respond in negativity, which validates the very questions you have about yourself and keeps your focus on exactly what you don't have, only creating more of the same. Rather than getting stuck on the wrong questions and focusing on the negativity, it's helpful to ask more productive questions such as "how can I boost my energy?", "how can I show up better in my life?", "what can I do to feel better?" Your mind will deliver answers to these questions instead. This is a powerful strategy to help you refrain from keeping attention on negativity. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and Youtube channel so you never miss an episode of the Mind Your Health Show! We release new episodes every week. Click here to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-your-health-podcast-with-dr-connie-cheung/id1297924924 Click here to subscribe to our podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/35dvMqbXWTpzhNYTf7C4hs Click here to subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQ8ySs38wLcDpp4-VJrdhQ And if you liked this message, please leave us a review on iTunes! . Be sure to follow Dr. Connie on Instagram! Dr. Connie Cheung account: https://www.instagram.com/drconniecheung/ Lupus Rebel account: https://www.instagram.com/lupus.rebel/ . Click here to join our Self Empowered Healers group on Facebook (you must answer all three qualifying questions asked upon joining in order to be accepted): https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfempoweredhealers