My Story...I STAND NAKED BEFORE YOU
It's different! It's interesting! It's informative! It offers hope!
This unusual book is about an unusual women, in an unusual country, in an unusual time. It will hopefully make you look at your own relationships, especially those unusual ones you might have with people of a different culture, a different color, and a different set of values.
The wonder of this immensely personal and often painful process, is that we make it safe for others to do the same.
It is precisely this healing that this world of ours urgently needs at this time.
Excerpt of "Forward by Christopher Nevill - Lifesmith"
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I STAND NAKED BEFORE YOU
...an excerpt
Where is my Dad?
"Bye Aubrey, (I dare his name) yes, it was nice to meet again. Yes, we'll definitely get together, I mumble. Short and not even sweet!"
I turn around and hear the door shut as he goes back into the house - shutting me out, again? Forever? I stumble towards the gate, vaguely aware of Val beside me, blinding tears streaming down my face. Around the corner Val gently puts her arms around me as my body is racked by sobs. Oh, the pain, this feels so sore. After a while I straighten up and mumble my thanks to Val for her support.Where is my Dad? Now I feel so sad. Angry! At least it doesn't hurt so much with the anger. It seems my father still does not want me.
With set lips, I head for the bus stop...my mask on, and the pain of rejection deep.
12 Ways to Increase Your Self-Trust.
1. Bring awareness to what you are thinking and feeling and not just to what you are doing.
2. Take time to listen to signals your physical body is sending. Naming the them will help.
3. If you doubt your instinct, take time to process what you are feeling - slow them down and move toward emotions or sensations.
4. Remind yourself that one poor choice doesn't mean you don't know what's best for you. Just because you made one mistake doesn't mean every choice you make will be a mistake.
5. Respect your opinion as much as you respect the opinion of others.
6. Listen to others with an open mind.
7. Reassure yourself that you are your own best expert.
8. Think like a witness rather than a participant. What would you advise someone else to do in your situation?
9. Gather evidence to support your belief that you do make good choices for yourself. Start by spending time being grateful when you do trust yourself with successful outcomes.
10. Make a list of things you like about yourself. It's challenging to trust someone you don't love.
11. Make a list other people tell you you're good at. Celebrate aspects of yourself.
12. Allow yourself the empathy you'd extend to another.
Universal Laws Rule our Existence.
Universal Laws govern our world regardless of our belief or disbelief in them. The Law of Gravity simply states that "what goes up, must come down".This is the easiest one everyone can relate to.
Wallace Wattles says, " You can act in accordance with these laws, or you can disregard them, but you can in no way alter them. All laws fall under one law, "Energy is", and we are all particles of that one energy.
If we acknowledge these laws, or of their existence and don't work against them, life unfolds naturally.
A simple example is:
The Law of Attraction
- Like energy attract like energy
- Your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energy - which will attract like energy.
- Negative thoughts = negative energy. Positive thoughts = positive energy.
Whatever you focus on you will attract into your life. Therefore, focus on what you want, because that is a universal law, and will honor where you place your attention.
It would be wise to befriend all the universal laws.
Food for the Soul
The Law of Process
If you have great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a ting one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for you… Mildred McAfee.
The Law of Process teaches us not only to break a journey into shorter sections but also to appreciate each step as if it were an end in itself: That way we experience many little successes along the way, not just when we reach our final goal. What we learn on the journey may turn out to be more important than reaching the destination.
Many of us live only for the big highs but forget that each small step up the mountain is higher than the last. We can achieve anything if we break it down into manageable parts.
Exercise
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Pay attention to the many small steps in your life.
- Observe how many processes you go through each day in just getting dressed, going to classes, going off to work; each of these involves hundreds of small steps.
- Break any present goal down into small steps; write them down and make a checklist. See the processes from where you are to where you want to be.
