Challenge Your Thought Patterns Today!

 Look at yourself and what do you really see...?

What do you think of yourself and do you know who you are... ?

We see ourselves one way but our loved ones and friends see us another way...

Which is the real you?

Disappointments and happenings can often take us down a path that we would not have chosen for ourselves.

Dreams and desires can be lost in a maelstrom of chaos where our AUTHENTIC SELF can get overwhelmed and buried.

Life and events can threaten to sweep us away and we lose sight of who we really are and...
we form negative tapes -
we begin to judge ourselves...
we fall into negative patterns resulting in...
 negative thoughts...
negative self talk and...
negative beliefs about ourselves -
some of these may have laid dormant but emerge due to a build up of  current circumstances and...
some we form as we become buffeted by the storms of life.

Do we play act through life with a false attitude and image hiding the hurt behind a wall...

covering up how we feel and who we really are?

There are a lot of different ways of covering up your feelings such as becoming ...

Aggressive and loud...
Do you bluster and bully your way through life?

Are you a doormat or a cowering mouse...
Do you accept other people's treatment of you, never fighting back and standing up for yourself?

Do you push your way through to the front or do you creep in and sit at the back?

How do you cover up and...
just what are your negative tapes?

Do you even know?
If not please sit down with a pen and paper in your hand and start to think about them...
start to challenge them as...

These negative tapes, which if not recognized and chagllenged, will stunt our growth because...

The experiences we go through and what we put into our mind help form:-
The ideals that we have...

the judgments that we make and...

the value that we place upon ourselves, as human beings.

Sadly many of these are filled with incorrect data - DATA that are just OPINIONS...

OPINIONS we form about ourselves and NOT TRUE FACTS! 

YES -  they are NOT TRUE FACTS ABOUT OURSELVES and WHO we REALLY ARE!
INSTEAD...
they are just OPINIONS that enable us to set up all sorts of BARRIERS for ourselves based upon INCORRECT DATA - DATA that is  PERCEIVED and NOT REAL!

Our THOUGHT PATTERNS and SELF TALK help form our BELIEFS, and...
 are two of the most important things that dictate our BEHAVIOUR...!
These are in turn reflected in each other and thus forms a CYCLE which goes round-and-round!

BEHAVIOUR-BELIEF - BEHAVIOUR - BELIEF - BEHAVIOUR...

This never ending CYCLE forces us into a CIRCLE of THINKING PATTERNS which,
if filled with NEGATIVITY,
 leads us into LOW SELF ESTEEM which...
 in turn feeds the CYCLE - with NEGATIVE FOOD!. 

Do you want to live your life in this way?
Do you want to be controlled by your NEGATIVE TAPES?
Do you want to live your life not doing things that you are capable of...?
Do you want to live your life behind a wall...?
Do you really want to continue going through life FOOLING yourself by PERCEIVED OPINIONS and...
NOT living it through REAL FACTS?

ASK YOURSELF TODAY?
DECIDE!
Is it AUTHENTICITY AND REAL FACTS or...
is it NEGATIVE TAPES and PERCEIVED OPINIONS that you want to live by?
DECIDE TODAY!

CHALLENGE YOUR THOUGHT PATTERNS... NOW!

In truth may I walk and in truth may I live!
Through all the returning seasons may I grow and change -
just as summer turns into spring and spring into autumn and autumn into winter -
may I move and grow with life,
 singing with the birds,
 walking through the trails marked with ferns and trees,
with flowers blooming fresh and snow falling thick.

May I live with truth and let truth lead me...
guide me and help me live my life to the full!

I was born in truth...
let me live in truth and..
finish in truth!

(Ruth Anne Caukwell)

Dear friends

decide today whether you will live by perceived opinions about yourself or in real facts - take some time to look at what you think about yourself and ask yourself some hard questions - do you have NEGATIVE TAPES?  

CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING and DISCOVER a NEW AUTHENTIC YOU!

peace and love be with you, regards Ruth