Find The Positive Within Yourself

[Paul Hines]

A lot of us have been beat down verbally and mentally when we were children. Sometimes we were beat down so much that we didn't think much of ourselves growing up. Along with that we certainly didn't think we deserved much of anything from ourselves nor did we expect much from others towards us. These feelings grow into low self esteem. We acclaimed our identity from those adults we trusted and from the T.V. that babysat us, also from our friends and siblings that we identified with. I'm not going to get too deep with this but these< are some of the truths that we have to work with and change. We need to find positive attributes about ourselves so we can begin to like ourselves. Basically, we grow up with an internal picture of who we think we are and how we think others see us, most of the time these are negative pictures.

So what do we do? Take out your Holy Scriptures, be it the Bible, Qu'ran, Torah etc and read what your higher power says about you. Look for Scriptures that tell you what your higher power says you can have. A passage in the Bible says, give and it shall be given unto you, pressed down, shaken together and running over. As long as you are a generous person and you give before you're even asked to give, you will receive from others. In other words, shore up your belief system. Don't start focusing on trying to get something that in your heart and mind you don't really think you deserve to have. Don't concentrate on what you don't have. Focus on what you want and how it will make you feel once you get it. Believe you already have the thing you're focusing on. If you focus on what you don't have you'll get more of what you don't want./b>