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Today's
Meditation:
As a
teacher, I probably see more people who do not believe in
themselves-- yet-- than other people do. In fact, I
see one of my most important jobs as a high school teacher
to be that of helping my students to create and develop
belief in themselves and their abilities. And I'm
able to witness regularly just what happens when a
not-so-simple shift occurs-- when a student goes from not
believing in him or herself to believing in him or
herself.
Everything picks up when a person starts to believe in
oneself: work performance, self-image, feelings of
happiness and contentment, self-confidence, even
relationships, for it's easier to be with someone who
believes in him or herself than it is to be with a person
who doesn't.
Do your beliefs support you and your dreams and
desires? In my life, mine rarely have, and I've paid
the price for that. Dearly. But as time has
gone on my beliefs have come much more into line with my
dreams-- in other words, I now believe in my own ability to
make those dreams reality, and when I believe that, then
anything can happen, can't it?
One of the things that we aren't taught in life is that we
can create our own beliefs and cast out those beliefs that
have been hanging around for years, without us ever even
realizing how much they've been hurting us. Just as
I wouldn't want to go outside wearing clothes that I don't
like, I prefer not to go through life allowing beliefs
that don't support me to define who I am and what I do.
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