Your Spirit

Your “Self”

Are you tend­ing to them? Your Spirit & your Self? Doing so will help to alle­vi­ate, and pos­si­bly elim­i­nate, the stress in your life.  With that in mind, please take a moment to read the pas­sages below and dis­cover, in what ways, they may relate to your life:

• Do you take time out for your­self by doing the things that you love to do? Doing what you love to do relaxes your mind, body, and soul.  It puts you in a more serene place, which allows for a more peace­ful space.
• Do you make efforts to become a bet­ter YOU by rec­og­niz­ing your faults and work­ing to fix them? When we work on our­selves, we become hap­pier with who we are and we begin to attract the right energy into our lives.
• Tyler Perry said in his 2010 BET Hon­ors speech, “I lost my house and I got a man­sion.  I lost my job and got a com­pany”.  He was speak­ing about step­ping out on faith and how when you don’t, you never know what bless­ings you are block­ing.  Do you step out on faith?



• Do you sur­round your­self with pos­i­tive peo­ple? The peo­ple you KNOW have your best inter­est at heart.  The peo­ple you KNOW gen­uinely love you, and that you can learn from?  Hav­ing the right peo­ple in your life makes a huge dif­fer­ence because neg­a­tiv­ity is lit­tle to none.  Your envi­ron­ment is healthy, your mind is healthy.
• Do you take steps to secure your hap­pi­ness? Secur­ing your hap­pi­ness means not being fear­ful of the areas in your life that require your atten­tion.  Whether it be a hobby you love, or a dream you want to bring to life, it’s all rel­e­vant because you are show­ing Self that Self matters.
• Can you, with­out paus­ing, say what you love about your­self? Though it is hard for peo­ple to talk about them­selves, it is impor­tant that we can iden­tify those attrib­utes we love about our­selves.  Being able to do this says you take pride in who you are.  When we can’t, the ques­tion becomes: “do you really love yourself?”
• Do you demand respect because you KNOW that you are too impor­tant to be dis­re­spected? When you allow your­self to be treated in ways that don’t make you feel good, you walk away from those sit­u­a­tions, after a while, con­di­tioned to believe that you “deserve” this treat­ment.  Respect­ing your­self means that you would NOT allow any­one to treat you in a way that makes you feel “less than”.