We all talk to ourselves, right? And we all need a little self-coaching at times. This is a recent example from my diary:
1-Find one thing to love about the day. 2-Leave yourself behind. 3-Find yourself observing the light just separating itself from the night. 4-Notice color emerge as if you’d never seen it before. 5-Don’t let it go unnoticed, the lavender-blue sky. 6-Find the still point on which all sound revolves. 7-Give this much to yourself, and the world that needs your acknowledgement. 8-Steep in poetry.
At other times, I’m not quite so affirming. Like this entry: “Is it time for gratitude, or is it time to own my sour ass?”
I’ll leave you with another poet’s wise words:
“Who are you to believe you are untrue to yourself? Who must you be?”
From the poem “GIven” by Carol Frost, in her book I Will Say Beauty.
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