Today, while I was browsing my Kindle for appropriate literature on incest, PTSD and healing, I found a little book titled, 'Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It" by Kamal Ravikant. The title is pretty self-explanatory, but I was intrigued. Too often as a PTSD sufferer, you'll have people say, "You're too hard on yourself. You need to love and respect yourself." That's all well and good, but nobody ever says how you're supposed to do that, how to take that first giant step to self love.
Well, I found a pretty straight forward answer in this book. The author uses the metaphor of a river. Just as tiny droplets of water slow erode away rock and form a river, so do the thoughts in your mind. The more you think of something, the greater power you give that thought, to the point that it can sometimes carry you away. The book talks about creating a new pathway. A new default setting if you will.
By simply taking the time, maybe seven minutes of your day, to meditate and say "I love myself", you start to create a new pathway. It doesn't matter whether you believe it at the time or not. As long as you take that seven minutes to meditate and think 'I love myself' repeatedly, you are actively creating a new pathway, a new river.
It seems silly and small, but great things can happen when you love yourself. I altered the original mantra to something that I think works better for me: Today, I will grow.
I'm curious what your life-changing mantra would be. Do you have one already? Please share.
Well, I found a pretty straight forward answer in this book. The author uses the metaphor of a river. Just as tiny droplets of water slow erode away rock and form a river, so do the thoughts in your mind. The more you think of something, the greater power you give that thought, to the point that it can sometimes carry you away. The book talks about creating a new pathway. A new default setting if you will.
By simply taking the time, maybe seven minutes of your day, to meditate and say "I love myself", you start to create a new pathway. It doesn't matter whether you believe it at the time or not. As long as you take that seven minutes to meditate and think 'I love myself' repeatedly, you are actively creating a new pathway, a new river.
It seems silly and small, but great things can happen when you love yourself. I altered the original mantra to something that I think works better for me: Today, I will grow.
I'm curious what your life-changing mantra would be. Do you have one already? Please share.
