My thinking today will cause me to be at total peace with myself. (Repost)
If you want to live in the kind of peace that prevents you from developing a stomach ulcer or hypertension – the peace that allows you to really sleep well at night – you must learn how to properly see yourself. Developing the proper self-image includes learning to forgive yourself and making a quality decision to stop blaming yourself and mentally beating yourself up for your mistakes and perceived failures. If you constantly bombard your spirit with negative thoughts of regret and self-accusation, those thoughts will eventually mutate into a kind of self-loathing that is completely counterproductive to your having any real degree of success in your life.
Low self-esteem is a learned habit that is usually developed by believing in lies and falsehoods. Insecurity and feelings of inferiority are also merit-less mindsets that people acquire and cultivate throughout the course of their lives. The fear of rejection is the result of learned behavior, as well. But the good news is that any learned behavior can be unlearned! When you know who you are, you don’t have to waste time trying to prove to somebody else that you are valuable or talented. You can believe in yourself while being fully aware and accepting of your own limitations.
Being at peace with yourself comes from a balanced estimate of your self. The more that you are at peace with yourself, the less stress you will have in your life. Guard your heart and never let someone else’s negative words decide the direction of your life. No one should have more power over you than you, and you can determine your own stress level and how much pressure you will allow yourself to feel in a day. If you want peace, you can have peace. You are in the driver’s seat, so determine where you want to go, emotionally, and don’t waver from your intended course. Get a vision of a more confident, more centered you, and become that person.
No matter what has happened to you in the past, you can get it together if you want to. Being at peace with oneself is something that should be aspired to, treasured and protected. Your peace is stronger than your fluctuating moods or temporary thoughts of discouragement. Being at peace will positively affect your health and could even lengthen your life in the long run. It certainly will make you easier to live with and will condition you to have better relationships and live a more successful life. When your mind is at peace, you see things more clearly and with better perspective; you are less likely to become overwhelmed by your circumstances. You can change your life by changing the way you see things.
Today I will not be distracted by worrying about things that might not ever happen.
Worry is a pointless and futile exercise that causes the person who engages in it to give way to anxiety and feelings of uneasiness, apprehension and fearful concern. It is a learned behavior that is basically just meditation on what is negative, or what could potentially be perceived as negative or destructive, and it causes an individual to unnecessarily trouble his/her own mind and spirit. It can also cause that person to inflict certain things on his/her physical body that can manifest as dis-ease, better known as disease and, in the long run, worry unchecked can become a slow and miserable kind of suicide. There are people who literally worry themselves to death.
Worry distracts you and hijacks your all-important powers of focus, rendering you incapable of seeing certain important and essential things that can only be perceived by taking in the fullness of the big picture. It narrows down your visual field until your perception of reality is limited to nothing but tunnel vision. And when all you have is tunnel vision, you are unable to pay attention to the totality of any given situation, so that when you need to take action you are unable to do it in a rational manner. Worry forces you to act on impulse as you react to artificial feelings and emotions. It always causes you to miss the main point of any situation.
Worry is a heartless and dangerous thief. It is heartless because it insidiously disguises itself as care and concern, exploiting the thoughtfulness of well-meaning people in doing so. It is dangerous, because it can so easily creep in and take over someone’s mind that they become comfortable with the familiarity of its presence, and thereby regard it as an acceptable way of thinking and way of life. Ultimately, they yield to its authority and allow it to rob years of creativity and productivity from them, as they waste most of their mental potential on fretting about things that more than likely are never even going to happen. Worry shapes their perception into seeing every smokescreen as reality.
In the same way that regret causes you to miss the beauty of the now by sentencing you to live in the past, worry causes you to miss it by negatively projecting you into the future. But there is hope for worriers. As was stated earlier, prayer is a powerfully effective perception-changer: “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life” (Philippians 4:6, 7 – The Message). You can change your life by changing the way you see things.
BELIEVING IS SEEING!
20/20 vision: Changing Your Life by Changing the Way You See Things - by Bishop Jim Swilley 