Louise Hay

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don’t give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience. Even when we lament about the past, we are experiencing our memory of it in this moment, and losing the real experience of this moment in the process.

Exercise: I Love Myself

I assume you are already saying, “I approve of myself” almost nonstop. This is a powerful foundation. Keep it up for at least a month.

Now take a pad of paper and at the top write, “I LOVE MYSELF; THEREFORE...”

Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you. It’s all temporary anyway. Next lifetime you will do it differently anyway, so why not do it differently right now?

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, which is why we call it the present.

Don’t waste your thoughts on blame. No person, place, or thing has any control over your feelings because they don’t think in your mind.

Since self-esteem is what you think about yourself, you have the freedom to think anything you want. So why would you want to belittle yourself?

So choose new thoughts to think about yourself, and choose new words to tell yourself how magnificent you are and that you deserve all the good that Life has to offer. Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.

I choose to feel good about myself.
I stand on my own two feet. I accept and use my own power.