Blog 3262 – 10.07.2024

I Am Healthy, I Am Happy, I Am Whole

The importance of encouraging self-talk cannot be overstated. We all have heard enough discouraging, demeaning, and unhealthy comments in our lives and to counterbalance all of that negativity we need positive reinforcement. Who better to provide that than ourselves.

Many parents who would never physically abuse their children have nevertheless been very abuse with their words. There is a line in one of my favorite movies, An Unfinished Life, where the lead actor played by Robert Redford discovers that he is a grandpa to a ten year old granddaughter that he has just met and he is asking her if one of her mother’s former boyfriends beat her as well as her mother and she says, “No, Gary was just like you, mean with his words.”

Sadly, more often than not we are no kinder to ourselves with our words than all those other voices who have demeaned and belittled us over the years. Hearing those voices continually echo in our head over the years has trained us to be equally unkind and harsh with ourselves. Believing those lies about us has damned us to forget Who and Whose we are truly are.

Do not believe those lying voices and for heaven sake and your own do not add your own voice to that demonic choir. I am a big believer in the power of the encouraging word not only to uplift and enlighten but to heal and make right what years of verbal abuse has made wrong.

Who are you going to believe? That is up to you. Give yourself and others the highest and best reputation to live up to, not down to.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White