Imagine meeting you on the street. Who do you think you are? Are you someone with whom you speak respectfully and approve of at the same time you know you are unable to solve all the problems of all the people in the world?
Are you someone with whom you speak lovingly and approve of at the same time you know you are unable or unwilling to even attempt to unrealistically fulfill the needs of someone else before fulfilling your own basic needs?
Whomever you think you are, you are.
The Pine Wood Derby is an event where dads and sons work together to customize a small block of wood with wheels and counterweights into a car. After the car is completed, it must weigh a certain weight to be approved by a judging committee. After all that is completed, the son and father get to use the car on a race track, competing with other cars. It is a yearly Cub Scout event and the boys really enjoying doing it.
This one year our son had already finished his competition. He came in third or fourth. He shrugged off the race loss deciding that the sheer fun of competing was more important to him than winning the race.
I watched a little boy, crying inside on the church steps. This little boy had lost and felt a personal sense of loss. I knew his personal value remained priceless at the same time he had to accept that for this one race, he had lost. I went over to him. “What’s the situation?”
His lower lip was out very far and he looked so sad. Tears dotted his cheeks. “I lost!”
I said, “Well, I bet you’re really an expert ball player. Tell me what you can do really, really well.”
Still whimpering a bit he said, “Football. I can really crush the guys.”
“Well, tell me something else you can do, you creative genius you.”
“I’m really good at jumping. I can jump really, really high.” he said brightly.
“Well, now I’m really impressed to hear how smart and talented you are. I bet you can even tell a pretty good story, too.”
“Oh, I tell the GREATEST stories.”
I said, “Wow! Even though you lost this ONE car race, there’s always next year. AND, you can already do so much. Gee you are really special. That sounds like a GREAT story to me. What do YOU think?”
“Yeah!” he said with his best super-hero jump. The little boy had stopped crying now and beamed. He hopped up and ran outside.
You and are like this little boy. You are special and necessary. Focus on what you CAN do and feel powerful. Forget about what you are unable to do. Maybe you’ll be able to develop that ability when you’re older.
Enjoy your day!
Susan
I’ve heard that the first thing monks do immediately after they awaken each day is laugh. Laughing actually improves the immune system. So, laughing is a great thing you can do for your body.
If you feel like you must confront a difficult situation this day, remember, you can do it! Here’s a little hypnosis strategy to get through today’s challenge.
Inhale deeply, then exhale and relax. Recall a funny, funny memory. While you are feeling entertained and happy, use that HAPPY feeling and laugh about ONE detail of today’s difficult challenge. Feeling the FEELING of happiness, remember that you CAN achieve your desired goal when you tell yourself, “Say something that improves the relationship for the other person and myself. I’m looking for a common connection to genuinely and mutually benefit myself AND the other person.” Then, laugh and feel happy that you are doing something that will improve the situation for you and the other person.
You CAN do this! Focus!
Here’s a FREE gift for you if you will simply try the exercise I just outlined for you. It is called the 1,2,3 technique. A free copy of this technique waits for you if you’ll agree to opt-in and subscribe to my e-mail list. I never sell your name or address. I’m simply looking for women interested in helping themselves excel. I intend to do future teleseminars and want to let you know when they will be.
Your copy of the 1,2,3 technique is waiting for you. I eagerly await to hear from you. My e-mail is hypnoticbraintalk@gmail.com.
Have you seen this You Tube video?
I think it is needed everywhere.
Hi Fabulous You,
Why do you like who you are? Because you can! Remember that YOU are the boss of your mind, body and spirit. If you’ve inadvertently taught yourself to dislike YOU because somebody TOLD you (probably as a child) that you were only of equal value to that somebody (for various reasons) when you let him/her bully you into satisfying his/her needs before your own basic needs, that is only ONE opinion open to you today.
“Today is my day. I am ONLY thinking FABULOUS thoughts about me and other today. Thinking is FREE! Today is the only today I will live today. I’m choosing to think about something happy today AND “I’m lovable” is an acceptable thought for me to think.”
Remember, any thought you hear is an opinion. Because your brain only works while your body is living, you create the thoughts you think as you go along your day. So make up a bunch of really great thoughts about you and others and enjoy the peaceful feeling within!
Today (and every day) is an incomplete event until you start to DO something. So, live the next second remembering that your personal value is priceless AND you also may be unable to be all things to all people AND you may be unable to DO all things people ask you to do. So what?
“I am priceless AND I am without the skill to proficiently swing a blue umbrella over my head while wearing a tutu and balancing atop a telephone pole. So what? Who cares? AND I’m lovable compared with eveyrone else because I SAY I’m lovable!”
Enjoy you today!
More on how the brain thinks at www.hypnoticbraintalk.blogspot.com.
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