Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It: The positive self-help phenomenon

The solution is to create new grooves so powerful that even if old patterns emerge, they are weakened. They don’t last long. And the new grooves make sure you don’t stick that damn needle in.

But if anything must shatter, it should be my ego. It keeps me from being real. It keeps me from accepting the help that life offers. I call and fill him in on it.

Key is this, when in darkness, have a light switch you’ve chosen standing by.

Whenever I notice fear in my mind, instead of pushing it aside or using it as fuel, I say to myself, It’s okay. A gentle yes to myself. To the moment, to what the mind is feeling. Often, that is enough to deflate the fear. From there, I shift to the truth of loving myself.

Once things get good, I’ll get comfortable and coast. I’ve done that many times in my life. Not this time. Excellence does not coast. My greatest strength is my belief in the power of commitment. Every substantial achievement in my life is a result of this. I will eventually have to use it here.

I’ve used commitments to transform my health, my fitness, my finances, my relationships. And, of course, the commitment that changed everything—to love myself. I make it again and again.

“Sometimes,” my brother says, “what you think is the worst thing that happened to you turns out to be the best thing that ever did.”

So, I ask myself, if I was to look deeper, why am I down, why isn’t my life an expression of, well, awesomeness? Once you’ve experienced it and you know it’s possible, then you should be doing everything in your power to keep it that way. It’s just too good.

to move to the next level, I must do this: forgive myself. For all the ways I failed, for all the ways I could have been better, for all the mistakes I made, for all that I am holding against myself. Time to drop the weight, let it go. So, I do. I grab a notebook and write down sentence by sentence whatever comes. Each I start with, “I forgive myse