neuro equipoise
07-23-2004, 09:44 AM
Excerpt:
"Courses and course materials don't change peoples' lives. Other people
won't and can't change your life. But you can.
*
Regaining lost self-esteem cannot happen until the choice and the
decision is made to pursue it. It won't happen by itself; it happens
through effort and will and intention.
In his book Honoring the Self,* Nathaniel Branden puts it this way:
"Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the
one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of
our existence....
The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness:
the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of
consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.
To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic
level....
To honor the self is to be willing to know not only what we think but
also what we feel, what we want, need, desire, suffer over, are
frightened or angered by*--*and to accept our right to experience
such feelings. The opposite of this attitude is denial, disowning,
repression*--*self-repudiation....
To honor the self is to be in love with our own life, in love with our
possibilities for growth and for experiencing joy, in love with the
process of discovering and exploring our distinctively human
potentialities."
If you wish to change the level of your self-esteem, you must do two
things. First, you must stop the bad habits that maintain your low
levels of self-esteem. The second thing is to look at the origins of
that low level of self-esteem. Your brain participates in both of those,
so to stop maintaining a low level of self-esteem, begin to manage your
mind. That is, be in charge of what your mind is doing. Left to itself,
your brain will follow old habits. If the old habit is to put you down
or to predict failure, your brain will continue to do that until you
take charge and make it follow"
http://www.getnewvisions.com/se/10crse_immediate_help.html
"Courses and course materials don't change peoples' lives. Other people
won't and can't change your life. But you can.
*
Regaining lost self-esteem cannot happen until the choice and the
decision is made to pursue it. It won't happen by itself; it happens
through effort and will and intention.
In his book Honoring the Self,* Nathaniel Branden puts it this way:
"Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the
one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of
our existence....
The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness:
the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of
consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.
To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic
level....
To honor the self is to be willing to know not only what we think but
also what we feel, what we want, need, desire, suffer over, are
frightened or angered by*--*and to accept our right to experience
such feelings. The opposite of this attitude is denial, disowning,
repression*--*self-repudiation....
To honor the self is to be in love with our own life, in love with our
possibilities for growth and for experiencing joy, in love with the
process of discovering and exploring our distinctively human
potentialities."
If you wish to change the level of your self-esteem, you must do two
things. First, you must stop the bad habits that maintain your low
levels of self-esteem. The second thing is to look at the origins of
that low level of self-esteem. Your brain participates in both of those,
so to stop maintaining a low level of self-esteem, begin to manage your
mind. That is, be in charge of what your mind is doing. Left to itself,
your brain will follow old habits. If the old habit is to put you down
or to predict failure, your brain will continue to do that until you
take charge and make it follow"
http://www.getnewvisions.com/se/10crse_immediate_help.html