IВ take care ofВ my health and it makes me feel good.
IВ love my body and the way IВ look.
IВ love the way IВ am.
My body is perfect.
My body is my best friend.
Every cell ofВ my body is healthy.
IВ love the person IВ am and encourage myself inВ every way IВ can.
Your body is your best friend for life, no doubt. Accept the way you are and the way you look. Every cell ofВ your body belongs toВ you, it is all yours! You had chosen this body before you were born, respect this choice. Your self-confidence is your way toВ success!
One day you’ll see that you’re the best, and you don’t have to impress anyone else. You don’t have to be liked by everyone, but you do have to be loved by yourself here and now, this very moment, with all your weaknesses and merits, all your ups and downs. You’ve got all you need because you’ve got yourself! And yes, you ARE the best.
Never complain about lack of time -you’ve got plenty of it! It’s a matter of setting your priorities. Always make time to praise, learn and accept yourself.
Love starts with you. Don’t associate yourself with just a body, you’re more than just flesh and bones. You are the creator. You create your own life and your reality every single day. Only you have the power to do it.
Only you know how special you are, mind that. You possess enormous potential you might have never felt before. Loving yourself is a sort of a miracle. Let this miracle happen to you first. Accept yourself as part of this love, and let it fill your soul. You’re in front of a door to your genius and talents. And love is the key!
Make this first step. I’d like to help you, if you let me. Don’t stop loving yourself, no matter what. Always praise yourself. Don’t criticize, humiliate, curse, judge and mistreat yourself. Every new day brings opportunities to love and accept yourself more. Think of the world you live in only as of a world of happiness and joy. That’s a way to your destiny!
Don’t let anyone influence your self-esteem. Encourage yourself despite what people say. You’re never alone because you’ve got YOURSELF and a great world inside you. You possess virtue and vice just like everyone else! So it’s no use considering what people say about you since no one is flawless.
Your sense of humor is a powerful weapon against all critics. Jokes and laughter help getting rid of any insult. It’s good for your health, too. Learn to keep your spirits high, to smile even when someone makes jokes about you. Because you are so much more than just a body.
Love yourself despite all your flaws! We all make mistakes. It’s the way we learn. Learning requires a lot of time and attention. Don’t judge yourself if you fail as it’s part of your life experience. Life is impossible without failures and mistakes.
This wonderful day is over. The next amazing location and new exciting discoveries await us tomorrow. Exploring the world we discover ourselves.
The first step towards your dreams is LOVE FOR YOURSELF!
Love is the energy that cures!
Love is the most precious thing inВ life!
YOU are love inВ itself!
It’s OK if you stumble and fall making your first step. Get up, shake the dust off your knees, think what you could have done differently and try again. Keep trying until you succeed.
AВ journey ofВ aВ thousand miles starts with aВ single step!
Chapter 2
The Power ofВ YourВ Mind
“Don’t be afraid of your God – be afraid of yourself.
You are the creator ofВ your own troubles andВ joy.
Heaven and hell are in your own soul.”
В В В В Sylvain Marechal
One ofВ the top secrets ofВ your life is that YOU can rule your own life and your body with THE POWER OFВ YOUR MIND.
What is a thought? Many people still search for answers to this intricate question. Some consider a thought to be an act of mind. Others suppose it’s a sensory image produced by one’s mind. Also, a thought is something expressed by a sound, a phrase or a pronounced message.
Let’s consider a thought as something in your mind at this very moment.
“Thinking means nothing but talking and listening to oneself.”
В В В В E.В Kant
You might have wondered what exactly rules this world pulling the invisible strings ofВ millions ofВ human lives.
Our minds do that. I know it probably sounds weird to you. Thought is incipient action. Our mind makes us act the way we think, say what’s on our minds. Our minds are enormously powerful.
If you desire toВ become aВ success, then you need toВ start with the basis. And that is your own mind.
Our journey continues in a very cozy place named Foros. It is buried in abundant verdure of exotic plants. Picturesque ponds are interconnected by numerous little waterfalls. The local air, water and nature are salubrious. It’s the best place for any start, and it’s perfect for studying the process of generating thoughts.
Let’s try to feel as one with this breathtaking scenery. Look, there is Fedor Shalyapin’s favorite arbor! Let’s take a seat inside and relax a bit, admiring the amazing view. Now, listen and try to understand all the new information I’ve got for you.
How many thoughts are there in your head? There’s a whole lot, isn’t there? The millions of images your life consists of have been created in your mind. Each small thought matters, to say nothing of the whole rows of thoughts! 65 thoughts are born in your mind every second: they are little fragments of thoughts and the deep, profound ones.
Every thought possesses great power, despite its size. It imprints on your subconscious mind. With the help ofВ all these imprints your mind creates your own reality.
Let us call our thoughts seeds, soon you’ll see why. Take a look around. What do you see? Almost two hundred kinds of exotic plants grow here: palms, fir-trees, magnolias among them. There’s also a forest further up, which had appeared long before this park did. Most of these plants sprung from small seeds. Seeds absorb water and begin to swell as they get into soil. This uptake nourishes the bud and it sprouts. The amount of water required for this process differs from one plant to another. For example, magnolia seeds need more water than gerbera seeds do. Just imagine millions of plants sprout from just one little seed! Flowers, vegetables, fruit and gigantic trees grow the same way.
Thoughts are just like seeds planted inВ aВ bed ofВ rich soil ofВ your mind.
Once inВ your mind, the seeds start toВ feed on your energy, which is like water for plants. It enables even aВ tiny thought toВ sprout and flourish, and one day turn it into aВ big tree.
Plants grow everywhere: inВ forests, inВ fields, inВ hot deserts, on top ofВ mountains, even inВ the Arctic! And despite their quantity, every one ofВ them remains unique.
We’re surrounded by gorgeous azaleas and magnolias, marvelous roses, fragrant fir-trees and pine-trees.
They are all different: beautiful and unattractive, poisonous and harmless, strong and weak. There are also plants that grow where nothing seems toВ be able toВ survive.
And every plant has its own time toВ bloom. Tulips choose early spring and mums prefer autumn which keeps the garden beautifully blooming and delightfully fragrant almost all year round.
Lovely flowers and sharp thorns, dangerous predator plants and the exquisite Japanese cherry trees grow from tiny little seeds. Your thoughts are just like these seeds. And someday they will all become your harvest eventually.
Some seeds grow into beautiful flowers, others become dangerous-looking thorns. As you sow so shall you reap.
Poor harvest follows every time you plant bad, evil seeds ofВ thought. But if you sow thoughts ofВ joy, goodwill and happiness, you reap aВ glorious harvest!
Every seed requires time to grow. So, if you enjoy your life now, acting or thinking bad, that doesn’t mean it’s going to last long. It always takes time for any seed to sprout and flourish. It takes more than one day for flowers to bloom or for tomatoes to turn ripe. Everything happens in due time
You’ll see your plants flourish in a while. And they will totally correspond to the seeds you’ve sowed. If you sow anger, envy, violence, then get ready to reap them.
It becomes obvious and simple once you get the idea of seeds and plants, doesn’t it?
The power ofВ intention and thought can be seen easily if we turn toВ history. Those who had sowed seeds ofВ destruction, were always at war struggling for power and wealth, making innocent people suffer. Chaos and wars were their harvest. There were also outstanding social figures, who gave people hope, faith and love, like Jesus and Buddha. You can find plenty ofВ information on this topic if you search forВ it.
When your mind works correctly, when the thoughts deposited inВ your mind are constructive and peaceful, then they will bring harmony, kindness and wisdom. If one plants melons, one gets melons.
Your thoughts brought you into your present conditions. Good news is that your today’s thoughts and decisions determine your future!
You control 100% ofВ your thoughts and all your decision making. So if you want toВ make aВ change inВ your life and make your dreams come true, you must change the way you think today, starting rightВ now.
It’s fantastic, isn’t it?
Let’s go down to the ponds, listen to the whispering of the waterfalls and enjoy the birds singing among the trees. You know, while pondering over the power of thoughts, I remembered the most important moments of my life. I used to judge people all the time. See the gardener cutting the bushes? Do you think he is happy? I think he is. Because he’s doing something he loves. He loves plants, likes taking care of them: cutting, watering, fertilizing. The gardener literally feels his plants taking care of them just like his own children.
Just look at him, look at all the beautiful trees and flowers surrounding him! He also deserves credit for their beauty as he has put his thoughts into them! Those were thoughts of love, care, kindness and happiness. And now these delightful flowers bring so much joy to us. This place is perfect, isn’t it?
Some people are happy and some are not, some love themselves, their businesses, their lives, and some don’t. I used to call those who didn’t enjoy themselves “loosers”, and there were also “the rich”, “the healthy”, “the sick” and so on. There were few people I approved of. Then I thought of the difference between the lives of all those people and my own life.
It took me aВ long time toВ realize that my whole life depended on my attitude towards it. All my experiences, events, conditions and acts are produced byВ my mind inВ reaction toВ my own thoughts.
Imagine that you have many friends, and you all enjoy riding bicycles and hanging out together. You all make fun of a boy next door, whose bike looks unhip. You keep picking on him because you think he’s not as cool as you are. But it’s only your point of view! Why would anyone decide he could judge a person just for being different? He is special in so many ways, just like you are! After all, your bikes can also seem unhip to someone else.
Our thoughts are what make us so special. Thoughts are transformed into decisions followed by actions. That’s the way it works. Each of us is one of a kind!
You are singularly responsible for your life, your health, your success at school and in future career, your relationship with family and friends, my dear. It all depends on you! I’m just trying to help you to find your way and your destiny, to discover your talents.
All your experiences and the conditions you are in, good and bad ones, have been produced by your own mind in reaction to your thoughts. You may say that not everything depends on you because you’ve got parents, society, religion, conditions of life you can’t change. But I don’t want you to feel a victim of any circumstances you can’t influence. Because your mind is so much more powerful than you know. I want you to focus on the power you hold.
If you dislike something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Your behavior is nothing but the cause and the consequence of your thoughts.
Remember, your thought is like aВ sunflower seed which becomes aВ flower bearing hundreds ofВ seeds. One seed produces hundreds!
Your thoughts determine your life.
Starting today, ask yourself the following questions every evening. Write them down inВ your diary or notepad toВ have them at hand anytime:
What was my day like? Was there anything IВ could improve?
What thoughts ofВ mine could cause this?
