Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Don’t Quit on Yourself!

Affirmations:
I choose what is best for me.
I live my life true to me purpose, path and priciples.
I honor myself by serving my whole self.
I learn from everyone and everything.

Are You Ready to Quit?

Before you end your job, your relationship, your life as you know it, complete what you started.
Honor your self with closure and completion.
Before you step away from a relationship, an institution, a friendship or project, say what you mean.
Honor your investment and see what you have learned and invested.

Before you walk away with regret or sorrow, be true to yourself and your values.
Assess what were the regrets and mistakes made and the lessons not learned.
Sometimes we stay too long and try too hard.
Sometimes we leave too soon and never learn.

Before you quit on your commitment, give yourself the opportunity to teach and learn.
Before you move away, clean up the messes to be willing to give and receive what was not done.
Change is the opportunity to forgive and heal it all.
Transformation is the gift we receive when we give our all.

Honorable closure included communicating the learning, regrets, challenges and appreciation.
Start by writing your letters describing what was your experience.
Give yourself the opportunity to say it all to those who would listen.
Take responsibility for what you think and feel, need and want.

Life offers lessons.
Lessons are for us to learn about ourselves.
When we learn who we are, we can choose what is good for us.
When we choose what is good for us, we are happy and fulfilled.

There is no need to change another.
We are here to be able to respond to our own needs and wants.
We can learn in relationship what works for us.
We can choose what is good for us and let go of what is not good.

It is not the person or project, the agreement or investment, that needs to be honored.
We are here to learn how to honor ourselves.
We are to awaken to what is our purpose, our values, our gifts and talents.
We are here to honor our authentic selves.

When we serve others to change them or the circumstances, we lose our way..
When we live according to someone else’s demands or needs, we forget ourselves.
When we stop being the Love we are, we forsake our Calling and our Joy.
When we stay where we are not wanted, we believe we should do more.

What if we are just right the way we are.
What if we need to be true to ourselves.
What if we can create the best situation for us.
What if we must love, respect and trust ourselves.

Loving us all in honoring ourselves.
Betty Lue

From Louise Hay ©1988

How To Love Yourself

1. STOP ALL CRITICISM
Criticism never changes a thing. Refuse to criticize yourself. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you approve of yourself, your changes are positive.

2. DON’T SCARE YOURSELF
Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts. It’s a dreadful way to live. Find a mental image that gives you pleasure (mine is yellow roses), and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.

3. BE GENTLE AND KIND AND PATIENT
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with yourself as you learn the new ways of thinking. Treat yourself as you would someone you really loved.

4. PRAISE YOURSELF
Criticism breaks down the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing.

5. BE KIND TO YOUR MIND
Self hatred is only hating your own thoughts. Don’t hate yourself for having the thoughts. Gently change your thoughts.

6. SUPPORT YOURSELF
Find ways to support yourself. Reach out to friends and allow them to help you. It is being strong to ask for help when you need it.

7. BE LOVING TO YOUR NEGATIVES
Acknowledge that you created them to fulfill a need. Now you are finding new, positive ways to fulfill those needs. So, lovingly release the old negative patterns.

8. TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY
Learn about nutrition. What kind of fuel does your body need to have optimum energy and vitality? Learn about exercise. What kind of exercise can you enjoy? Cherish and revere the temple you live in.

9. MIRROR WORK
Look into your eyes often. Express this growing sense of love you have for yourself. Forgive yourself looking into the mirror. Talk to your parents looking into the mirror. Forgive them too. At least once a day say: “I love you, I really love you!”

10. LOVE YOURSELF...DO IT NOW
Don’t wait until you get well, or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship. Begin now, and do the best you can.