Care What You Tell Yourself?

˚ I AM joy of clarity, being & doing  

Posted on 06/08/2012. Last edited on 09/11/2015.

• Thought Questions
  Have you gotten to a place where you can truly speak to yourself and ask the important questions? If you have difficulty with this…is this an area that gets your time and attention? If it comes easy for you, can the evidence be seen in your life in a good way?

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It is a given that it is important what we tell ourselves. I do take time to center myself (regularly) and see how I feel and what I think. I allow myself the awkward time when I ask questions of myself and don’t have the answers. I do love the questions as much as the answers.

Of course it is warmer feeling when others say kind things. Though, when I hear criticism, I’m glad I have also considered my own point of view, and can weigh anothers against what I’ve learned. I allow my spirit to help me know if I can trust. I allow God to help me discern. I’ve learned things that feel are ‘correct’. Correct for me…

I know I’m not always right, but I’m always learning. Knowing I’m learning more each time… gives me faith to keep on finding my own answers.

Though the most valuable thing I’ve learned is not about how right or wrong I can be…it’s to treat myself with respect and compassion.

The more I do this, the more I can be compassionate to others.

►•You have got to have a great persistence with yourself. You have to set yourself on the path again and so get along with yourself better. And let yourself have a chance. Never condemn yourself. We have the power to forgive ourselves. So set yourself right and then you will find you are sailing along smoothly and you are almost there and, flop, down you go. And again you have got to do it. It doesn’t matter how much patience it takes; it is the only thing that will win out: perseverance and patience with yourself until you can see that each succeeding month your consciousness is learning.~ ☼Ernest Holmes
►•We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.~ ☼Ernest Holmes
►•The most destructive force you and I have – and the most constructive – is our own unconscious emotional and thinking and feeling state.~ ☼Ernest Holmes

Compassion for yourself is not about your level of self esteem…It is simply good treatment for yourself to yourself. It is like a mother caring for its baby. A (healthy-minded) mother cares less about someone _saying they aren’t feeding their baby properly than if it were actually true. It simply _feels better to know you are seen in a positive light.

lovely to hear from you,my friend.

this has been one of my hardest challenges but I think the most rewarding .

Love and peace flowergirl

I used to be overly critical of myself,because that,s the course I was set on during those teenage years,and it just became A WAY OF THINKING FOR MANY YEARS,once I was made aware that,s non-sense,I WAS ABLE TO GRADUALLY say there is no reason to be my own worst critic,it felt unnatural to stop doing that.You could say I,m a recovering,abuser only the abusie was me…I also used to smoke,a pack of cigarettes a day,it was the hardest thing to put them away.I drank 4or 5 bottles of wine ,I had aglass in my hand all the time.

˚ I AM joy of clarity, being & doing  

Posted on 07/08/2012.

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• Thought Questions
  Have you gotten to a place where you can truly speak to yourself and ask the important questions? If you have difficulty with this…is this an area that gets your time and attention? If it comes easy for you, can the evidence be seen in your life in a good way?