Self-Esteem Exercise-15
November 13th, 2007, by Shelley Riutta
When you have a challenge in your life—what do you say to yourself about it? Do you say “Here we go again—why does this stuff always happen to me?” One of the things that I have learned over the years is that how we frame what is happening will shape our experience of it. It can be very helpful to shift into a perspective that says “I trust that there is a gift here for me–even though I can’t see what it is.” The gift will be in the form of a healing, a new insight, a shift in perspective–a transformation in a relationship. The gift is always there–it is just being open to see it. It can take some practice to do this—particularly if something is really challenging for you—and a gift is about the last thing you think will come out of it. But the interesting thing is that the bigger the challenge–the bigger the gift.
See if you can shift your thinking around a challenge you are experiencing and ask yourself “What is the gift here for me.”
I have a re-ocurring challenge for myself this year. To begin eating healthier and losing weight, yet once again. This time tho, I’m choosing to think in terms of “just for today” in how I eat and if I “fall-off-of-the-wagon” I’m going to start again. I’m trying not to think of the long-term only in today.
Deborah