Self-Nominated Stories by Myriam Ben Salem

My best stories selected from ILLUMINATION

I need to start this article by expressing my gratitude to Dr Mehmet Yildiz for his remarkable commitment to make of this publication a home both for its writers and readers. I am daily impressed by his consistency, proactivity and generosity!

I appreciate as well the daily efforts of all the wonderful editors who are taking care of reviewing our submitted work, doing their best to provide us with the most effective feedback and encouraging us!

I feel very fortunate and honored by belonging to a tribe with so many like-minded and light-hearted individuals! I loved reading your brilliant thoughts and letting myself be overwhelmed by your emotional stories!

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou

Would You Find The Idea of Raising Free Future Adults Tempting?

#Parenting #Life #Self-Development #Relationships #Psychology #Family

The only person they would need to compare themselves to would be the person they were yesterday. It is what we call the “Abundance Mentality”! Think of it this way: When you compare yourself to others, no matter how talented you are, there will ALWAYS be someone better than you. When you compare yourself to the person you were yesterday knowing you are doing efforts to grow, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER! This is called freedom.

What Makes The Positive Affirmations Work Perfectly for Narcissists?

#Mental Health #Psychology #Subconscious Program #Education

They already know they’re evil. They built a powerful false self they’re selling to the world. They’re almost disconnected from their conscience and so unable of self-introspection. The positive affirmations are their favorite toy. They confirm their delusional perception of themselves and feed them. That’s why so many narcissists love the spiritual groups tendency. They even took advantage to become their “leaders”. Their charisma and incredible ability to mirror the good people virtues help drastically.

A Simple But Counterintuitive Way To Measure Your Fear’s Level

#Life Lessons #Psychology #Relationships #Self-Development

First things first, let me clarify this article is not targeting cruel people in any case: the ones who can mistreat their own pets, push your pets away every time they try to say hello, or senselessly bully animals in the street. Animals are living things as we are. For evil people, they show a disregard for the living. More to the point, they lack the empathy to identify with another breathing creature and are simply too egotistical to care!

Discovered: Why I Was Suffering From My Savior Pattern

#Psychology #Self Development #Life lessons #Relationships

When the pure spirit and love are driving your behavior, the uncontrollable result doesn’t matter. You listened to your integrity call, honored it, and decided to pay the price. What comes out of it is none of your business. No one can break another person’s denial circle. Learn to deal with it, give yourself a big hug, and move on with your life!

What Do We Mean By Emotional Imbalance?

#Mental Health #Psychology #Education #Self Development

It is mportant to understand that emotionally imbalanced people are kind-hearted. Their imbalance is easily fixed whenever they become aware of it and commit to doing their homework — rewiring their subconscious program. Their style of interacting with their environment is predominantly influenced by their fears, insecurities, and the defenses they mount to protect themselves from any emotional pain. Their insecurities’ nature is healthy. They are coming from some pure willingness to be better human beings in all circumstances.

What If You Set Yourself Free?

#Mental Health #Psychology #Self Development

When you set yourself wholly free, you can:

* Save your kids from any possible abuse at home or school through identifying the techniques from your children’s emotional daily shares.

* Contribute to elevating the global awareness around the world’s critical issues: the mental and psychological health issues, suicides, the world’s resources imbalance, stigmatization, global warming, wars, etc.

* Invest everything you can in leaving a principled legacy and preparing the path for the generations unborn to thrive and reverse the distorted world’s system.

How Much Does Your Kids’ Sanity Matter to You?

#Mental Health #Psychology #Self Development #Parenting

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance ~ Will Durant.

I can only concur with such a statement. And given the fact that that learning requires three main criteria:

* Being aware there is always so much to discover,

* Having access to knowledge,

* Most importantly, being humble enough to unlearn & learn again,

I am addressing this urgent message to this category with the hope they could contribute to influencing their circle.

What If We Can Re-humanize School Again?

#Family #Parenting #Psychology #Educational Reform #Abuse #Mental Health

I want to start this article by asking a question: “When you think about the educational system, what is the first word that comes to your mind?”

School? Uniformity? Conventionality? Teachers? Discipline? Control? Sustainability? Learning? Knowledge? Efficiency? Homework? Pressure? Exams? Degrees? College? Fees? Limiting? Broken?

Those were the answers to my first circle. The last attribute broke my heart, but it speaks so much truth.

Is Feeling Pain an Indispensable Part of The Human Existence?

#Self Development #Psychology #Self Love #Mental Health

Let’s be first clear if you don’t mind. If you have ever had such a reflection, you should be proud!

How come? It is the starting point of the transformation, the proof of your openness, and will to change your life starting by yourself — there is no other shortcut, unfortunately.

So, here is my humble opinion and answer to this question:

The key is to figure out whether this pain is ego or self-love driven.

What Do We Mean By Upgrading Your Conviction To Match Your Destiny?

#Self Development #Psychology #Servant Leadership

The trigger for writing this article and sharing my thoughts with you was an insightful quote I read yesterday.

“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.” - Stuart Scot

What I believe is that this has everything to do with growing as a person. It has to do with becoming self-aware. It has to do with being courageous enough to deal with the accompanying pain.

It has to do with becoming real and starting living wholeheartedly as one of my favorite authors known as Brené Brown likes to call it. It has to do with centering your life on the Principles.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for considering reading some of the stories in which I invested my mind, spirit and soul! I will feel so fulfilled if you find some value in them! 💙