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Know Who You Are
Be Who You Are
Nancy Buchanan
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Is low self-esteem holding you back from health, wealth, happiness,
love and the passion you desire? Feeling good about your self is a
major requirement to receive what you are looking for. Barksdale Self-Esteem
Institute in California defines self-esteem as having a warm and loving
feeling towards yourself no matter what is going on in your life.
In twenty years of counseling I have seen how childhood affects adult
life. For example, if we receive messages about not being good enough
or unworthy our view of our world, or our self may be clouded.
Today you do not have to accept negativity that is projected at you.
I saw a sign in a lady’s home one day that said “To belittle
is to be little.” How true it is. Most people that put others
down criticize or belittle have low self-esteem and do not feel good
about themselves. Our actions and projections are a reflection of
how we feel deep inside about ourselves. When a person feels good
about themselves (loves and respects themselves) they have no need
to belittle or hurt others. When a person is really successful in
life they are happy and supportive of others. Don’t take things
that others say and do so personally, it may be more about them then
you! People tend to project their unresolved issues onto others. Forgiving
and sending love is your path to feel good.
The truth will set you free. The truth is we are more than our body,
when we move onto the next expression of life we will slip out of
this body. I was holding my eighteen-year-old cat “Charlie”
when he slipped out of his body and I could feel him leave. I gifted
him by being so present in love, and my gift was to feel his life
essence transcend. I could feel life after this life, rather than
just read about it.
Valuing and caring for self by making our needs a priority is a practice
that supports self-esteem. We are not our labels or names, they were
given to us, people change them all the time. We are not our feelings
we change them too. I feel happy, joyful, excited, peaceful, competent,
confident, successful, beautiful and loved. (Practice makes perfect.)
There are many things we can do to develop self-esteem;
1. Honor your feelings and speak your truth.
2. Say no when it feels like no.
3. Set goals and meet them.
4. Only make promises you can keep.
5. Create boundaries and don’t let others violate them.
6. Decide what you want in life and manifest it by staying congruent
in thought, feeling and action.
Picture a time in your life when you felt unconditional love from
someone or an animal. See what you saw then, hear what you heard
and feel what you felt. A happy loving picture will help your heart
energy flow and when it does picture your self separately as a child
and then pick the child up. Give that child the love it has been
longing for and deserving. Now you are a nurturing, accepting, loving
parent to yourself. The very most important aspect of self-esteem,
in my opinion, is knowing who you are and practicing spiritual principles.
Love being the greatest principle of all. Practice looking in the
mirror and saying “I love you”. The harder it is the
more it is needed. Things may pass away, but practiced spiritual
principles develop our soul and raise our vibration, frequency and
energy. Living a lie that you are not good enough will make you
physically weak. Prove this to yourself, have someone press your
arm down while you resist and say your name. Truth makes you strong.
Then do the same exercise and say, “I am” and make up
a new name that will make you weak.
Identifying and being in touch with your true nature will develop
your self-esteem. Being spiritually poised is like living out of
your bliss. Simply meditate, know and contemplate your oneness with
infinite spirit until a feeling of inner peace and strength develops.
You can also meditate silently on the words (I love the love of
God in my soul).
Sitting in the silence breathing into your heart allows the love
to flow and raises your vibration to manifest. The universal power
of love is your attracting power and it all starts inside you and
inside me. Creation is from the inside and not the outside. Visualizing
and feeling confident and secure in situations and then enlarging
this picture may be very helpful. Looking for self-esteem outside
of you is not the real deal no matter how much we see on TV. Many
beautiful, wealthy people are not happy, healthy or feeling good
on the inside. Focusing only on the outer will set you up to compare,
lose and become disappointed. When you know more fully at the “feeling
level” how wonderful you are because you are part of an infinite
spirit that is love, light, life, peace, power, beauty and joy,
you will enjoy more of these qualities as your own.
Being your true self will allow you to walk in love, peace and joy
today and maybe beyond.
Many blessings, Nancy
Nancy is a New Thought Minister, Counselor, Certified Instructor
of the Silva Method. She works locally and in Sarasota. Call at
727-422-6594 for free brochure, flyer and schedule of classes, or
a private session.
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