Good morning everyone, happy Sunday morning. So this today's article was published in New Writers Welcome, a sub-publication of medium publications. The topic is, I thought this was a better way to handle criticism. And the sub-topic is, an appropriate affirmation helps.
I practice a few rituals in the morning that help me integrate and live by my BEMMA, Body Emotions Mind Model. One such ritual is saying affirmations. I have observed that by saying affirmations loudly in front of the mirror, I get to see myself, hear my voice, and watch my body language and feel my feelings. To me, it serves as a perfect coordination of how I am physically showing up, emotionally feeling and mentally present to what I am affirming.
I started saying affirmations several years back when I lost my job and embraced self-employment as a blessing in disguise. Saying these affirmations have tremendously helped me move through major life transformations from mother to empty nester to mother-in-law to grandmother smoothly. In the professional arena, saying affirmations have helped me be determined with grit and gratitude when expectations are not met. In the following article, I shared how, saying an affirmation from Louisa's book, Meditations to Heal Your Life, describing the word humor helped me get deeper and learn about four types of human.
I can choose self, choose to embrace self-enhancing and affiliative humor instead of aggressive and self-defeating humor. So I have given the link to that article in medium.com. I can check it out and I am also given the link to this article in my description box in this episode. Please check it out.
Today I was reminded of a friend who came across to me as complaining about how her mom is not appreciative and it bothers her. The following affirmation titled, All the Tapes from Louisa's book, Meditations to Heal Your Life, came to my mind. While I suggested to my friend to try saying the following affirmation, I thought sharing my thoughts as an article would help my readers, writers, publishers, editors. And I would say people across the globe.
So here is the affirmation from the book on the word or the words, all the tips. I'm just reading what the word, why not you also join with me and read. Have your mother make a tape telling you how wonderful you are. I live in the now.
All the tapes of my childhood used to run my life. Most people have about 25,000 hours of parent tips running through them. Many of these old tapes had a lot of negative messages in them, lots of criticism and shoots. Now I'm choosing to erase and re-tape new positive messages.
I listen to my inner thoughts and when I catch one that makes me feel uncomfortable, I turn it around. So re-tape the old messages. You don't have to be obediently listen to the old stuff, just re-tape. I know I'm a capable person.
I know I'm worth loving. I really believe I'm worthy of a wonderful life. I have a purpose in being here. I have the power to change the tapes.
Those tapes, negative messages are not the truth of my being. Affirmation for the word humor in the book, Meditations to Heal Your Life. I'm linking to the description about tape recorder. As some of you may or may not have seen a tape recorder.
Nevertheless, unfortunately some people grew up in a negative environment, receiving messages of criticism from their parents. Our parents are our first authority figures and we want to be obedient and respectful. As we grow older, unless and until we realize that loving ourselves, feeling capable and worthy and following our purpose is our birthright consciously, we are prone to accepting our parents' criticism as the current truth and reality. Reading the above affirmation made me realize the following and I invite you to give some thought to it.
One, I can choose to re-tape the old message of criticism. I can choose positive messages. Choose the right word, guys, the key word, I would say. It's my responsibility to turn it around.
I can choose to love myself and love my parents and be respectful. It's all my choice. But you see how this affirmation helps to re-tape? Okay.
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