Self-Perception

The importance of cultivating a healthy perception of self

How do you perceive yourself?

Do you rely on others perceptions to gauge what you think and feel about yourself?

For a long time I was in this trap.

My perception of myself was based on everything else and everyone else around me in my life. The world around us is simply a reflection of our inner world. This means my confusion about myself was mirrored back to me, and worse sometimes used and abused so other people could have power over me to tell me who I was.

It is crazy to realize now that I believed other people’s perceptions to be the absolute truth.

How free I am now that I have worked (and am working) so hard to form a healthy perception of myself.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. — Wayne Dyer

Sure I have days where I look in the mirror and feel critical or judgemental of myself. I am human and will always have hard days just like anyone. Though the most important thing is I have a sense of stability within me that I have built. No one can touch it. No one can tamper with it. It is rock solid. Unbreakable.

I am who I perceive myself to be-and nothing can rock my foundations now.

This is what truly getting in touch with myself has done.

I am stable in myself, and other’s perceptions while they may be interesting are not able to affect me like they once were.

It is important to cultivate a healthy perception of yourself for many reasons. Perhaps the most important one being that more peace, happiness and ease can enter your life when self-criticism, judgment, and shame dissolve.

While I have spent the end of last year up until now unemployed I haven’t let myself slip into old patterns of feeling small or lacking. I haven’t taken the opportunity to come down on myself or feel terrible because I haven’t found work.

I haven’t fallen into the trap of becoming pessimistic and critical that I don’t understand the way my life is unfolding. I am simply allowing whatever needs to be, to be.

Simply, I’ve used the time as an opportunity to work consistently and diligently to better myself. To form a better understanding of my skills and gifts.

I feel I really know what I am good at now and want to explore those parts of myself more. I can perceive my strengths and weaknesses with compassionate understanding now, rather than critical judgment.

It is one of the most important life changes I have made.

To cultivate a healthy perception of yourself. It opens doors. It stops you from playing small. It creates changes within yourself and the world around you. People believe in you more, because you believe in yourself. Things begin happening that once challenged your perception of self.

You become open to the unfolding of magic in life. And therefore you witness magic more.

Nothing is too hard. And if it is and you were meant to do it, the pathways become clear. If it is not meant for you, it is easy to release it.

Nothing that is meant for you will ever pass you by.

Suddenly when you perceive the light in yourself, you can witness it more so in others too.

The divinity within you becomes clear and nothing can stop you.

To change the way you perceive yourself is to change your life. It may first be the baby steps that are unglamorous without celebration and with only rewards you can feel at first.

But it will lead to the expansion of you. The healthy perception you work to form of yourself will help you reach higher heights.