Quotes About Self-awareness

we play the victim role, then we are using our personal power to be helpless. If we decide to accept responsibility, then we don't waste time blaming somebody or something out there.

Some people feel guilty for creating illness, or poverty, or problems. They choose to interpret responsibility as guilt.

These people feel guilty because they believe that they have failed in some way. However, they usually accept everything as a guilt trip in one way or another because it's another way to make themselves wrong.

The throat is the energy center in the body where change takes place. By touching your throat, you are acknowledging you are in the process of changing.

A lot of people, on the other hand, go around saying, "I'm a victim, woe is me. Please, doctor, fix me.

When we want to change a condition, we need to say so. "I am willing to release the pattern within me that is creating this condition." You can say this to yourself over and over every time you think of your illness or problem. The minute you say it, you are stepping out of the victim class. You are no longer helpless; you are acknowledging your own power.

I am now willing to see my own beauty and magnificence.

We are doing the best we can with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge we have.

However, I Would Not Blame Our Parents for This

We're all doing the best we can with the understanding, knowledge, and awareness we have.

I often ask clients, "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" We all have opinions on who was right and who was wrong according to our own perceptions, and we can all find ways to justify our feelings. We want to punish others for what they did to us; however, we are the ones running the story over and over in our own minds. It is foolish for us to punish ourselves in the present because someone hurt us in the past.

The mental thought patterns that cause the most dis-ease in the body are criticism, anger, resentment, and guilt.

We realize that everyone is a reflection of us, and what we see in another person we can see in ourselves.

Nadie piensa en tu mente sino tú.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

2. We must also stop scaring ourselves. Many of us terrorize ourselves with frightful thoughts and make situations worse than they are.

We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it does not seem we are choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. We can refuse to think certain thoughts. Look how often you have refused to think a positive thought about yourself. Well, you can also refuse to think a negative thought about yourself.

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts. Even self-hatred is only hating a thought you have about yourself. You have a thought that says, "I'm a bad person." This thought produces a feeling, and you buy into the feeling. However, if you don't have the thought, you won't have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed.

The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment.

When you recognize that you're a human being who sometimes makes mistakes, you won't get caught up in the illusion of self-importance. — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

put a wall around myself that kept me literally out of touch with my own feelings.

I am far more than my personality — past, present, or future. I now choose to rise above my personality problems to recognize the magnificence of my being. I am totally willing to learn to love myself. All is well in my world.

This form of resistance shows up in denial of the need to do any changing. Things like: There is nothing wrong with me. I can't do anything about this problem. I was all right last time. What good would it do to change? If I ignore it, maybe the problem will go away.

It would be very easy just to blame our parents and be victims for the rest of our lives. But that wouldn't be much fun, and it certainly wouldn't get us out of our stuck position.