My Declaration of Self Esteem
I am Me. In all the world, there is
no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically
mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my
feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or
myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs
and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can
become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing, I can love me and be
friendly with all my parts. 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 solutions to the
puzzles and 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
authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and
felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the
rest, 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 Self Esteem by Virginia Satir
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