See your qualities!
posted by Deva Harischandra Jessica
What if I ask you to make a quick list containing only ten, of its countless qualities? I hope you can get them listed very quickly. Because you have so much more.
How many times do we harm our cells, our emotional, our spirit, when we depreciate, diminish ourselves, think ourselves bad, ugly, weak, insufficient, incapable?
It is cultural this mania to think that "the beautiful thing is to be ugly", that we have to diminish ourselves in order not to appear arrogant, that the cool thing is to be modest, that to be "good people" we have to put ourselves down and under.
Enough! Let's break with that pattern. We need to be aware of our value, our capabilities, our potential. Each of us has many of them. No one is good at everything, or likes to do everything, if he is interested in all matters. Everyone is good at many things and it's okay not to be good at the things that others expect you to be.
It's okay not to be the model that family, school, church or society expect us to be. They are only expectations of others. Let's look at each one of us as we are, unique beings. Comparisons, standards, beautiful and ugly, right and wrong do not fit.
We need to see the richness of the diversity in which we live. Create possibilities for people to develop as they are. Have favorable environments to stimulate people's creativity and spontaneity. So that they feel safe, accepted as they are, that they are loved and do not have to feel forced to pretend that they are something else, that they like what they don't like, to do what does not make the least sense to them, as we have reproduced in societies around the world.
The vast majority of us, in childhood, went through this demand for standardization. Now as adults, it is important to take charge of our lives, aware of our self-responsibility, that we own our lives, that the pains that we go through because we cannot be ourselves no longer need to walk with us.
It is up to us, to look inside, to throw away what is not ours and to discover ourselves in our countless qualities, potentialities and tastes. Finding what gives us pleasure, what makes our hearts flutter, looking at life with love and willingness to enjoy it. Seize opportunities for joy and growth. Valuing who we are and not clinging to the idea of finding fault, we get hurt by it and keep feeling inferior. Highlight the best we have, look at what we want to transform in us and work on it. Without judgments, but with warmth and love towards ourselves.
Know how to recognize all the good things you bring inside you and enjoy the great experience that is your existence.