I am me

I am me
MrDon

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I am me.

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me - my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all its thought and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be - anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth, and all the words that come out of it, polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft; and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.

I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By doing so, I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me.


However, I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

I can see, hear, feel think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me.

I am me, and I am okay.


From Virginia Satir, A Goal Of Living
 
Don I would only add this to that wonderful post.

Within myself I now have the freedom of choices and the ability and will to take action upon those choices. Some of them will be good and some of them will not be so good. But I only learn from what I am doing wrong rather than from what I am doing right.
 
Don I would only add this to that wonderful post.

Within myself I now have the freedom of choices and the ability and will to take action upon those choices. Some of them will be good and some of them will not be so good. But I only learn from what I am doing wrong rather than from what I am doing right.
 
Don I would only add this to that wonderful post.

Within myself I now have the freedom of choices and the ability and will to take action upon those choices. Some of them will be good and some of them will not be so good. But I only learn from what I am doing wrong rather than from what I am doing right.
 
And your perfect the way you are, senor don...
 
"I am me" has been a difficult thing for me to say.

Shame, guilt, and victimization have all come together for years to lead me into denying myself, who I truly am.

I see clearly now that I must insist on not being a victim anymore, work hard to clearly reject it each time I recognize it.

This is a big, big change in my life and will not be easy but it is the only way that I can move on.

Thanks for your post. It has helped me see myself more clearly today. Something I really need.
 
Amen, my friend.

This speaks to all of us. It does to me right now.

For all our imperfections, we are all okay.

Thanks for reminding me.

Peace and love,

Scot
 
thanks mr. don, i really needed to hear these words you've written. it is just what i needed tonight.

"when the student is ready, the teacher will appear"

thanks again...... :)

sr
 
THank you for posting this, you are very helpful with posting this. It is well worth reading again, and remembering. You are a good man.

Leosha
 
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