“Know Myself?” Blog #216
What is my internal worth?
Where do I learn to see my limitations?
How can I believe in who I truly am?
So to start my day (after prayer, breakfast and deep breathing) I ask myself this, Today - is
my glass half full or half empty? (glass means positive thinking inside mind)
Often it is easy to wake up in the morning with worry, disappointment and fear in ones
mind. How I decide for positive thinking directly affects my outlook on life! It can easily
affect my health as well. Am I an optimist? Or, am I a pessimist? These personality traits
not only affect my health daily, but what I choose to do, where I choose to go and WHO I
want to be with! It’s okay to internally talk to myself and stream some healthy information
into my brain right away as I awake. Perhaps it is helpful to put something by my bed that
I can wake up to read.
This statement has shown amazing results in people who started to try it for 30 days in a
row, “Today I look forward to one of the best days I can remember”.
Just learning to replace my glass that was “half empty” with “half full” positive thought
process, works. Once again I quote researchers who show the benefits of Positive Thinking
with the following outcome…
increased life span - lower rates of depression - lower levels of distress and pain -
much greater resistance to illness - better cardiovascular health - reduced risk of
health from stroke - respiratory conditions - cancer - and very important -
BETTER COPING SKILLS DURING HARDSHIP IN TIMES OF STRESS
No one person can know me better than I know myself ! If I have a tightness in my chest,
if I’m biting my lip, biting at my fingernails, headachy, shallow breath, my body feels the
tension and this is not good! Just sitting still with ten or more deep breaths, quiets myself
to know myself - I pray internally, “Thank you for helping me to know myself, Jesus”. An
ironic thought is this, smoking, drinking, junk food, overuse of internet, no exercise,
negative people around me = will poison my thought process.
It is up to me to start learning about me - quietly and consistently - Do I know myself?
Now I start the internal cleansing to dig out the dirt, see the damage and heal myself.
Two words come to mind = PRIDE and HUMILITY
Am I humble? Am I prideful? Here’s how to check PRIDE. Pride is a condition of the heart
where a person becomes self-righteous, superior to their own spiritual walk, above others.
Do I have a desire to be independent of God?
Humility - Spiritual Humility “A fundamental virtue in Christianity. Humility is characterized
by a recognition of ones own weaknesses and dependence on God. A modest view of
ones importance and a willingness to submit to Gods Will. HUMILITY is actually the secret
sauce to make me more loving, aware and see others “through Jesus eyes”. I pray daily
for this. WANTING TO HELP OTHERS. HUMILITY IS NOT THINKING LESS OF MYSELF - HUMILITY IS
THINKING ABOUT MYSELF LESS.
MOTHER TERESA was an Albanian, Indian Catholic nun who lived and worked with the Leper
Colonies in India. In 1979 she was given the Nobel Peace Prize for all she did for the sick, the
homeless and the poor. She was being interviewed by a reporter and he asked her, “What
do you say when you pray to God?” Mother Teresa smiled and turned knowingly to the
Reporter, “When you pray, you don’t have to say much - just listen. Then try to help one
person at a time”.
Can I sit quietly now and listen for the words to help me know myself?
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