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Viewing Trouble Learning a New Language? Is Your Mind Too Full?Trouble Learning a New Language? Is Your Mind Too Full?
By David Bailey It is amazing how much junk we tend to absorb into our minds and allow it to stay there, festering and tainting everything we do. This "junk" will impede your progress when learning a new language. Most of have minds cluttered with unproductive thoughts like negative comments by friends or family members, derogatory messages we have fed to ourselves, and restrictive messages relayed by society. All of this trash will degrade our performance when learning a new language unless we clear it out occasionally. It wears away at your mental stamina and sucks up mental energy that could be better spent learning new vocabulary, grammar structures, and ways to express yourself fluently in a second language. Take a few moments to think about the types of thoughts and beliefs you hold about yourself and your life. While you do that, also realize how this will hold you back from reaching your goals in life - specifically those of learning to speak a second language fluently and proficiently. Are you still operating under your father's assertion that you will "never amount to anything"? Are you still hearing the voice of your third grade teacher who said you would not go far in life because of your inability to pay attention in class? How do you think this affects the way you view your success at learning to talk in a new language? Make a list of all the beliefs and limitations that others have placed upon you. Be sure to include the limitations you have placed upon yourself. Specifically make note of those that have to do with your dreams and desires of successfully learning to speak a new language. You know - the ones that claim you cannot do "such-and-such" because you are just not good at them, or the things you have tried but did not have much success with the first time around, so now you believe you will never be successful at them. If you have tried to learn a new language before but gave up for whatever reason - write it down. If you are trying but are frustrated and do not see any progress - write that down too. When you have written down everything you can think of - read the list over once more, and then BURN it. Watch the warm, fiery yellow and orange flames lick the paper away until there is nothing left but ashes. Everything on that list was simply a perception, whether yours or someone else's. Perceptions are flexible and subject to change. You can change the way you view language learning - and anything else in life. You now have a clean slate upon which to write your own empowering perceptions. You can start by writing the opposite of the beliefs and messages you just burned, or you can come up with entirely new ones. What truths do you want to apply to your life? that you are wealthy? that you are successful and confident? that you are eager to try new things? that you can learn to speak a new language? How do you want to view language learning? Why do you really want to learn the language? Make note of your true motives and be honest with yourself about why you are learning. Whatever you want to do in life - besides language learning - add it to the list and then get moving on it! Periodically, repeat this clearing-out exercise to be sure you are not reabsorbing restrictive messages. Keep your mind free of unproductive trash and debris, and you will have plenty of room to store the thoughts you actually WANT to keep in there - specifically all the new vocabulary and grammar that you need to express yourself in the new language. Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters. - Samuel Butler About the Author: David A. Bailey, Jr. shares his best, top-secret, and little-known tips and tricks to learn a new language fast (based on 10+ years of experience) at exlsite.com. Article Source: A Language Guide - http://www.a-language-guide.com More free articles: 1st Rate Articles - 1stRateArticles.com |
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