Loving Relationship

When a friend gave me the Mindwatch I still hear myself saying ‘What could that little thing show me about myself that I do not already know?’
Finding my inner self and my purpose of live has been a major issue in my life during the past 20 years. Name an author, a method, a teaching or technique and I will very likely have read about it, visited a seminar with it, worked with it or applied it into my life. I was convinced to know myself. How wrong did Mindwatch prove me to be!

At the end of the first week of working with Mindwatch and not looking at any results during the week, I was shocked with what I saw. That couldn’t possibly be me! The beeper must have always gotten me in the wrong moment and has distorted the results. I worked with it for another week and again almost the same results! When I discussed the graphs with family members they agreed with the results. They were able to see how I was thinking and what patterns I followed. The only person not being able to clearly see myself was I.

On one hand it was very comforting to find out that my friends and family loved me anyway, clearly seeing how I was. On the other hand I couldn’t believe how many fantasies I still had about myself, about the thoughts I thought, about the things that I did in my daily life.

In the following week I tried to control my how I thought in order to get ‘better’ results. I sometimes felt that I was trying to cheat, but as a result of cheating/controlling my thoughts I started to see changes in my behaviour. It was as if I had been given the opportunity to make conscious decisions on how to think or react.

It would take too much time to write about all the positive changes that have taken place in my life since wearing MindWatch but I just want to highlight the two most striking ones:

I always considered myself to be a very caring person. But very often the Mindwatch beeper would catch me in situations while commanding others, overpowering them and forcing them in a way I thought would be best for them. It was more than painful becoming aware of my attitude. First I could not behave differently, but I became aware of it immediately as I reacted or as I thought in that specific way. It was as if I was watching myself from the outside. Buy seeing and realizing more clearly made way for a change. After a while I could start to find and apply other options of thinking or reacting beforehand. Our family life and the relationships with my husband and my children have improved dramatically since. I actually became to act more caring and not just think I was.

Another eye-opener happened in the area of health. For 30 years I was struggling with me weight still believing that wrong eating habits have not caused the problem. Using Mindwatch I became aware of how many times a day I was involved with food related thoughts: shopping for food, deciding what to cook, reading about food, talking about food, looking forward to eating, rewarding myself with food and compensating myself with food….I had not at all been prepared to realize the amount of thoughts and energy that I spent on that issue. I am proud and happy to say that with the help of Mindwatch I lost 18.3 kg so far! And only by becoming aware of my habits, patterns and thoughts and consciously choosing a better focus and deciding what to think about and how to live and therefore what to eat.

I consider my Mindwatch an ally. An ally to help me detect where I am unconscious, where I am stuck in old thinking patterns which I want to replace because they are dragging me down.

I would not want be without my Mindwatch anymore! There are always new traps and old habits / thought patterns sneaking in, but having my personal coach with me all the time is keeping me on track. Always!