Change your Negative thoughts to Positive

Your thoughts create your feelings and your feelings create your behaviour. For this reason, the way you practice and perform is directly connected to the thoughts you are telling yourself. If you want to change your behaviour, you need to bring awareness to your thoughts.

Make a list of your negative thoughts then ask yourself, “what could I think instead?” When you answer this question, you create positive reframes that can be used to replace the negative thoughts. Once you create positive reframes, you then use them to re-program your mind. Every time you hear the negative thought, replace it with the positive reframe. Overtime, the negative thought becomes very quiet and the positive reframe becomes the dominate voice inside your head.

Here are a list of 15 negative thoughts and ways to reframe them.

Negative Thoughts	Positive Reframe
I pop and circle on my jumps	I go for it every time
I can’t do it	My jumps are clean and consistent
She is better than me	I land my jumps with great speed and flow
It is so much easier for her/him than it is for me	I land my jumps easily and effortlessly everytime
I am slow	I am powerful
I can’t do it	I am strong
I am afraid to try that	I am brave
There are too many skaters on practice	I enjoy skating with my competitors
I don’t like my body	My body is fit and strong
It is taking me too long to get that jump	I am where I am suppose to be in my skating journey
I hate morning ice	I love how quiet the ice is
I can’t do anything in my program	My spins are fast and well centered
I am not good enough	I did my best on the day
I am going to skate horrible	I trust my training
I can’t	I will