Make a Radical Change

I believe our self-image wholes an enormous power over us.  No matter what anyone else sees, what we see is our reality.  This is true whether this image is pertaining to our body, a body part, or an overall idea or belief about self.  It's important to know what we are really thinking about our self.  "Are we over obsessing about facial hair, are we embarrassed that we wear glasses, are we upset that our fingers are short and fat?"  In order to truly fall in love with self, we have to isolate these ideas and images we hold about self.  What stories have we attached to them?  Are we telling ourselves that "wearing glasses makes us unattractive" or that "the scar on my face makes me undesirable"?  Once we've acknowledged what our true image of self is and all the negative thoughts, beliefs, and sometimes rituals that go along with them, then we can begin to tear them down one by one.  It's time to GO NAKED!  Now keep in mind this is a very radical movement and can be very uncomfortable, however I know it will change your life for the better.

To "Go Naked" is to go back to your basic nature or simply refuse to cover up any seeming flaw.  It is to sit in the discomfort until you can dig up appreciation and love for self by appreciating and loving what is before you.  This is how we go beyond the surface of self-love.  This is where we find out who we really are and what we really offer to this world.  Remember, "You cannot ask of someone else what you haven't asked of yourself."  So many times we hear people say, "I just want someone who can love me for who I really am." Meanwhile they themselves have not a clue who they really are under the multitudes of cover ups.  And this is really no one's fault.  We live and are born into a society that is obsessed with perfection and modification.  Yet we have to take control of the remote and decide what messages we will tune out; sometimes we will need to change the channel...other times will we have to be so radical as to just turn off the set.  Because nothing gets in without our consent! 

This is a very personal process and there is no rush only urgency.  Therefore, move with a sense of urgency but take your time.  Take down one wall at a time, no need to shock yourself into resentment or discontentment.   Maybe it's the obsession with long hair today and smiling with your braces tomorrow; just go at what is a reasonable pace for you.  This is to restore appreciation and love.  Best of all you get to decide when that restoration has taken place; you decide when your self-image has been positively changed.  Some areas will need more attention than others; others more time....just be willing to give what is needed.  No doubt this will require a whole lot of honesty and guts but I know that the power to change your self-view is in you and I believe in YOU!  So "GO NAKED: MAKE A RADICAL CHANGE!!!"


As always, I encourage you to go within and discover your own personal truth.  And until our paths collide again, I wish you...



Peace, Love, Life, and Harmony,


NaTisha Renee
your "Emotional Life" Coach

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