When you are feeling low...

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When you are feeling low and you need to give your self confidence a boost, read

through this list and remember that no matter what, you are a good person.

· I am a wonderful person

· I am unique - there is no-one else like me

· I am loveable

· I am a good person on the inside and outside

· I am not alone

· I will recover from this

· I did not choose to feel like this

· I can get better

· It's not my fault

· People DO care about me

· I deserve good things in my life

· I can trust some people

· I can protect myself

· I can ask for help when I need it

· I am able to love

· I am worthy of love, care and attention

· I DO help people

· I deserve respect

· It's OK to feel the way I do

Declaration of Self Esteem

I am me. In all the world there is no one else like me. There are persons who

have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore

everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it.

I own everything about me. my body, including everything it does; my mind,

including all its thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they

behold; my feelings, whatever they may be - anger, joy, frustration, love,

disappointment, excitement, my mouth and all the

words that come out of it - polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my

voice loud or soft; and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own all 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

me in all my parts. I can them make it possible for all of me to work in my best

interests.

I know there are aspects about me 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 the solutions to the puzzles and for 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 me. This is authentic and represents where I am at

that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I

thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that

which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting. And invent something new

for that which I discarded.

I can hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survivie, 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.

Author: V.Satir