土曜日, 5月 13, 2006
On Keeping Our Faith
God Is Teaching Me Patience...
From the outside, I've successfully projected that I've moved on...but it is a constant struggle day in and out. There are times I feel pathetic about my life. I am almost giving up because I'm simply broken-hearted. I can't fix it. I can't mend this. My prayer each night is for God to allow me to wake up one morning with a fresh new heart. I'm barely there...barely. [Click me to see full article].
God Is Teaching Me To Value Money
I didn't organize my Philippine vacation and in return I overspent. Since I'm taking my Master's education and sending my 2 brothers to University I have HUGE expenditures. When I looked at my bank account this morning, I realized I've already gone negative because I've spent a portion of the money I brought with me in Japan. This means that in principle, I've spent more than I've earned which is not good. I need to rethink about my financial expenses and God is teaching me to value my money and be a wise spender.
God Is Teaching Me To Love Myself
Over stress and lack of attention to myself has caused me to be sickly, look lousy and get fat. My self-confidence is sinking but then I realized that God is teaching me to value myself. Because I didn't pay enough attention to myself, I am like this. It takes effort to be healthy and to look good. I can't depend everything on God. Here are some hopefully helpful tips on how to love oneself.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Be kind to your mind: Self-hatred is only hating your own thoughts. Don't hate yourself for having the thoughts. Gently change the thoughts.
- Praise yourself: Criticism breaks 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mirror work: Look into your own 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!"
- LOVE YOURSELF - DO IT NOW! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or find the new relationship. Begin NOW - do the best you can.
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost." Martha Graham
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