Kat Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 March 17 – Self-Esteem Every DayOften, a flight from reality is a flight from the reality of your inner state, the thoughts and feelings you are frightened to face or understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 March 18 – Self-Esteem Every DayAmong the many crimes committed against the younger generation, one of the worst is that young people are taught next to nothing about reason, rationality, or the importance of critical thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 19 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe quest for reason is for the non-contradictory integration of experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 20 – Self-Esteem Every DayOne of the meanings of living consciously is paying attention to what works and doing more of it and trying to understand the principles involved. And also paying attention to what doesn't work and not doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 21 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe question is, do you invest your activities with your keenest consciousness, or do you settle for something less than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 22 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhen you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less—shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 23 – Self-Esteem Every DayA simple application of living consciously is taking responsibility for the words coming out of your mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 24 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you are wise enough to base your self-esteem not on being "right" but being rational—on being conscious—and on having integrity, then you recognize that acknowledgment and correction of an error is not an abyss into which you have fallen but a height you can take pride in having climbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 March 25 – Self-Esteem Every DayOne of the ways you convey respecct for another human being is through the consciousness you bring to the encounter—through seeing, hearing and responding in a way that allows him or her to feel understood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 26 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you are willing to stay fully present to your emotions without denial or disowning, the typical result is not hte collapse of lucidity but its enhancement. In other words, feel deeply to think clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 27 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you bring more consciousness to what you do when you are afraid or angry, you will see that other options exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 28 – Self-Esteem Every DayLiving consciously entails the question, What are the grounds of belief? What is the evidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 29 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe need to live consciously has acquired a new urgency in the modern age. The more rapid the rate of change, the more dangerous it is to live mechanically, relying on routines of belief and behavior that may be irrelevant or obsolete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 30 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe age of the muscle-worker is past; this the age of the mind-worker. That your mind is your basic tool of survival is not new; what is new is that this fact has become inescapably clear. The market is rapidly diminishing for people who have nothing to contribute but physical labor. An economy in which knowledge, information, creativity—and their translation into innovation—are the prime sources of wealth demands minds, people who are able and willing to think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 March 31 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhoever continually strives to achieve a clearer and clearer vision of reality and our place in it, whoever is pulled forward by a passion for such clarity is, to that extent, leading a spiritual life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 April 1 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you deny and disown pieces of who you are—your thoughts, feelings or actions—because they do not fit your official self-concept, you damage your self-esteem. You send yourself a message that who you are is not good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 2 – Self-Esteem Every DaySelf esteem is impossible without self-acceptance. But self-acceptance is not an easy idea for most people to understand. They confuse acceptance with liking, condoning, or even admiring. Yet acceptance does not imply any of these things; it means awareness without critical judgment or condemnation. It means not denying or fighting reality. It means respect for the facts of your own being. It means saying, I’m not happy that I had that thought, but yes, I accept the fact that I had it. It means, I’m not pleased to have these feelings, but I had knowledge them as mine and allow myself to look at and experience them. It means, I am not proud of that behavior, but yes, it was I who did what I did. When you open yourself to reality—even when the reality is painful—you make yourself stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 3 – Self-Esteem Every DaySelf-acceptance does not ask, Do I like it or not? It asks, Is this true of me or not? It does not ask, Will this be true of me forever? In asks, Was it ever true of me—ever an expression of me—even for a moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 4 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo be self-accepting does not mean to be without a desire to change, improve, or grow. Self-acceptance has nothing to do with complacency. The paradox is, self-acceptance is a precondition of change. If you cannot accept the fact that those unwanted thoughts occurred to you, how can you think about or learn from them? If you cannot accept the fact that you have these distressing emotions, how can you resolve to grow beyond them? If you cannot accept the fact that you have been acting unconsciously, how will you learn to act more consciously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 5 – Self-Esteem Every DayIn one of my therapy groups, a woman grew angry with me and said, “You’re always talking about self-acceptance. But I’ve got lousy self-esteem. Am I supposed to accept that?” I answered, “If you don’t accept the fact that right now your self-esteem is low, how do you think you will learn to raise it? You think you will do better for yourself if you deny the reality of the problem? All that accomplishes is to leave you stuck.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 6 – Self-Esteem Every DayThis is the principle of self-acceptance: Do not be an adversary to your own experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 7 – Self-Esteem Every DayThe challenge of self-acceptance is not confined to acknowledging faults. You can be as frightened of your assets as of your shortcomings. Some of us are afraid to accept our own intelligence, ambition, excitement, or beauty. We might be afraid that these traits will alienate us from others or invite their envy and hostility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 8 – Self-Esteem Every DayOut of fear of someone’s animosity or disapproval, you can betray the best within yourself. You may repress not your lowest but your highest. What is left behind is some vague, inarticulate sense of having committed treason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 9 – Self-Esteem Every DayCan you accept the self you were at an earlier stage of your development? Can you accept the child you once were, or the teenager, without embarrassment or repudiation? Or are you relentlessly unforgiving toward any self that knew and was less than the you of today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 April 10 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you condemn all your earlier selves—all the earlier stages of your development—who gets the credit for bringing you to where you are today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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