What Do You Think of Yourself?
Are you carrying around outdated thoughts and feelings about yourself?
Do you have thoughts and feelings about yourself that do not make you feel very good? If you do, it’s important to recognize this, because such thoughts complicate anything and everything you desire to do.
I think everyone has experience with this. While it’s easy to express this about other people, the internal dialogue most of us are running is all about ourselves.
This is not about vanity or conceit, this is about mindfulness and being aware of what you think of yourself. Few people look in the mirror and think I am amazing or I am awesome or I look great.
No, more often than not we look into the mirror and think I am fat or I am getting old or How am I going to f*^k myself up today? Not very complimentary, is that?
The thing is, while most of us guard what we say to people directly, we tend to have no filters for the self. What’s more, we also tend to treat ourselves with far too little kindness. Because this tends to be a form of autopilot for most people, we build it up until it becomes this impression of the self which we use to define ourselves.
When we define ourselves by negatives, we make it that much harder to create anything we might desire. Consciousness creates reality, and…
