Posts Tagged ‘Improve Self-Esteem and Motivation’
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
“Regret is often a symptom of not being authentic in relation to a particular circumstance. When you fail to speak your truth or act in integrity with your own values and guiding principles, you experience a measure of torment. While you may have difficulty in defining your own sense of authenticity, you are acutely aware when you are not being true to yourself.”
“Not speaking our truth is a strategy most of us learned as children. We all have been raised to blend in to some degree, or not feel our feelings. It is no wonder that so many of us have become so dependent in our relationships. We have found greater security and comfort in meeting other people’s needs, responding to other people’s feelings rather than our own. Authenticity is a fundamental component of wholeness. It honors all that we are. With authenticity, we become cocreators of a fulfilling life that springs forth from all which is genuine and beautiful in us. Authenticity is the litmus test of our self-worth. When we truly value ourselves, we live in integrity with our spiritual nature.”
Gary Simmons, The I of the Storm, Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace, page 61.
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
“He who would know the world
seek first
within his being’s depth;
He who would truly
know himself
develop interest in the world.”
Rudolf Steiner
How to Know Higher Worlds
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
“Because everything you see or notice about yourself and your situation is viewed through the lens of self-worth, your seeing is incomplete.” page 105
“Misperception occurs when seeing is believing, which is what we call judgment, or when believing is seeing, which is what we call blind faith. All human perception is incomplete and is therefore misperception at the moment we say, “This is it!” page 106
“Quantum physicists assert that at any given moment, infinite possibilities are present. Some go as far as to say that there are infinite universes coexisting. The moment you act as if something is so, the universe of infinite possibilities collapses into one inevitable happenstance. When you look at something and say, “This is what it is,” you are pouring your creative energy (attention and awareness) into that specific perception. The moment your awareness locks on to one possibility, all other universes collapse. While in any given situation there may be many possibilities, innumerable paths, the instant you decree “This is it!” all others vanish. This is why it is so important not to give your power to your perceptions, as if they accurately describe what is going on. When you realize your perception is incomplete and mediated by your need to feel safe and okay, you will pause before drawing concrete conclusions.” page 107
“What inner quality or resource are you missing? As you look inside yourself, you will see that you are missing a clear connection to your own sense of worth. If you felt whole and confident, you could see that the judgment is about what the other person needs or that it is about what the relationship needs or that it is about what you said or did which created some tension.” page 112
“Shifting your attention from the feeling of defensiveness to the question “What am I making this mean?” allows you to reframe the experience as an opportunity to discover what’s missing in the relationship. In Principle, no one is against you; therefore, what you are making this experience mean is the true enemy.” page 112
Read more about the Truth Principles in, The I of the Storm, Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace by Gary Simmons.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
“To hold joy, we may sometimes have to fight for it, we may have to strengthen ourselves and go full-bore, doing battle in whichever ways deem most shrewd. To prepare for siege, we may have to go without many comforts for the duration. We can go without most things for long periods of time, anything almost, but not our joy, not those handmade red shoes.” page 254
“…It is from a poem by Charles Simic and it is the ultimate instruction to us all: ‘He who cannot howl, will not find the pack.’ If you want to re-summon Wild Women, refuse to be captured. With instincts sharpened for balance-jump anywhere you like, howl at will, take what there is, find out all about it, let your eyes show your feelings, look into everything, see what you can see. Dance in red shoes, but make sure they’re the ones you made by hand. I can promise that you will become one vital women.” page 254
Read the story of The Red Shoes in “Self-preservation” on page 215 of Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
“To accept the innate godlike power of our Spiritual Self is very frightening to the ego mind, and we will often fight for the viewpoint that various things are impossible and that our powers are limited. Such power is actually the opposite of the ego, which feels its boundary to be of the body. But remember that our ego has no power beyond that which we give it, and in the moments we come to this full realization, then the ego will cease to exist, or at least for that moment will loose its primary place in our thoughts. By recognizing our own potential divinity, we will loose nothing but our mistaken sense of littleness, the feeling of being out of control of our lives, and our fears and suffering in relationships.” Henry Grayson, PH.D, Mindful Loving, page 85.
“The connection between our thoughts and our lives is inseparable. The degree to which our thoughts are out of control is the degree to which our lives and our relationships feel out of control. Just as we can easily understand that an athlete or musician cannot perform well if his thoughts are out of control-that is, not focused-so it is true in every arena of our lives. A person with angry thoughts is likely to be an angry person. A person who houses fear thoughts is likely to be a frightened person; and, as we saw above, this often attracts like a powerful force field what he is afraid of into his life. A person with a disorganized mind is likely to be disorganized in his life. A person with hopeless, judgmental, guilty, or powerless thoughts is likely to be depressed. And on it goes, all affecting how our relationships progress.” Henry Grayson, PH.D., Mindful Loving, page 85.
“What we need to experience, and what we can experience, is a saner and gentler state of mind. This experience is not found in something outside of us…We must work with our minds, with our abilities, in order to have peaceful, rich minds.” Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Transforming Mental Afflictions and Other Selected Teachings.
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.” Jesus
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Give your thoughts no tongue.” William Shakespeare
“When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.” W.Clement Stone
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein
“The more man meditates on good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” Confucius
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” Swani Vivekananda
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” Soren Kierkegaard
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” Robert H. Schuller
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Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Taken at Yuko-En, The Kentucky - Japan Friendship Garden.
“If you’ve been practicing thought monitoring, erasing your core beliefs and traumas, and making perceptual shifts in order to remove barriers to love that interfere with your relationships, then you have begun to unblock your flow of love. As I’m sure you see by now, this work you’ve been doing not only lifts the stress and conflicts out of your relationship, it also-and necessarily-begins to heal the self.” page 237
“When we begin to see how the promises of the ego are untrustworthy and unworkable, and that they actually cause many of our problems, we begin to break out of its illusion and enter into the realm of the True Self.” page 237
“And once you live in this place, you are living in a spiritual way, and your relationships are increasingly transformed from ego–based to spiritual.” page 238
Henry Grayson, PH.D., Mindful Loving, Ten Practices for creating Deeper Connections.
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
“Your belief in your own value must be so strong that it translates into these conclusions: “I’m capable of loving and being loved. I deserve to be loved just as I am.” Sandra Anne Taylor
“Learn to stand alone, secure in your own virtues and self-worth.” Paramahansa Yogananda
“To create a thriving and happy single life, you must first be comfortable with your own company. You need to see your time spent alone as time spent in good society. Look forward to your time together with yourself. If you don’t enjoy your own company, nobody else will. Your time alone is one of your greatest resources. Use it creatively. Enjoy it. Make plans with yourself for yourself. Implement a new lifestyle of rejuvenation and self-care.” Sandra Anne Taylor
The above quotes are from the book, Secrets Of Attraction, The Universal Laws Of Love, Sex, And Romance, by Sandra Anne Taylor.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
“Every individual who has encountered the normal occurences of everyday living on the planet has something they need to heal. It doesn’t have to be a serious gash or oozing wound, but there is always something we need to get in touch with.” page 176
“”Self-love will enable you to take the healing time, the healing space, without fear. Sexual compatibility will not do it. The need to be needed will not give you strength. The desire to be taken care of will not give you the courage. You’ve got to know how to love yourself whether you are in or out of a relationship. If there is no self-love you will have no choice but to do the hellish and idiotic things in your relationships that make you crazy.” page 177
“It’s a time of waiting, the meantime is. You are waiting for further instructions, more guidance, additional support, mental or emotional clearance. As it relates to love and relationships, you enter the meantime willing to wait or unwilling to wait. A willing meantime experience is the experience of those people who walk or run into the meantime, willing to do the work. The work required to establish a better relationship with yourself. A willing meantime means recognizing that you are not by yourself, but that you are with yourself, and you don’t mind keeping company with you…” page 180
IyanlaVanzant, In The Meantime, Finding Yourself And The Love You Want.
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Photo taken by Nicole Wolcott
“The spiritual relationship is a common state of mind, where both give errors gladly to correction, that both may happily be healed as one.’ “ A Course In Miracles
“Most of our energy goes into upholding our universe. If we were capable of losing some of our importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusion of grandeur, and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe. Carlos Castaneda
“One hallmark of wholeness is the ability to love yourself. In the realm of love, a paradox exists: you can effectively love others only when you can love yourself. If you cannot love yourself, you will try to fill the void of your own lack of self-love with the love of others. You will tend to demand from others, what you cannot give yourself. This demand places an unfair burden on those around you. It makes you a bottomless pit; no matter how much love they give, it is never enough.” The same problem exists if you try to give love to other people who do not love themselves. You will turn yourself inside out loving them, but it will not help. We all must learn to give ourselves the love we want. Then other people can love us and it will feel satisfying because it is not filling a void. It becomes love dancing with itself.” Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., & Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., Conscious Loving, page 90 & 91.
“Yet we all know how much our minds are filled with judging thoughts, fear thoughts, and other thoughts that not only disturb our inner peace, but also seriously undermine loving relationships. Therefore we need a tool to help us be more effective in our thought monitoring and meditation is such a tool, for it is essentially a practice session on being an objective witness to our thoughts and then consciously returning our minds to focus on a place of our choosing, such as mantra or breath.” Henry Grayson, Ph.D., Mindful Loving, page 244.
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