Member: conuly

"I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else
exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine, because I alone chose it
I own everything about me: my body, my feelings,
my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they
be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my
dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs
and successes, all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately
acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me
and be friendly with all my parts. I know there
are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other
aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am
friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
and ways to find out more about me. However I
look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever
I think and feel at a given moment in time is
authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked,
sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can
discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and
invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the
tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of
people and things outside of me. I own me, and
therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am okay."

(--Virginia Satir)

posted by theoldman at 6:27 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2009