Learn to Love Yourself

Self awareness allows us to take in new information as it comes to us. It allows a person to consider an idea before automatically rejecting it. It is being able to know that a person's perception of the world has a powerful effect on how they experience everyday life. As perceptions change, so do experiences. If your perception of life is that the glass is half empty, perhaps it is time for a new outlook.

Changing perceptions can transition a person virtually that person can become a self actualized happy person, even in the middle of seeming calamity. When a perception is that old adage of waiting for the other shoe to drop, a person lives in a self focused perception. In doing so, they miss all the small gifts given to every one of us each day. When the attitude or perception changes and a person is no longer focused on what may or may not happen, or even on what has already happened, they begin to stop regretting every decision they have made in the past and stop worrying about every decision they will make in the future. In doing so, they become open to learning; learning from past mistakes and learning new behaviors and reactions to life.

Attitudes are free to grow and shift at any time. A person can focus upon a fear based life or a freedom based life. Each person has the choice to move from a negative perception of life to a positive one. How do you do that? In order for a perception change to begin a person has to be willing to change certain beliefs that may actually be ingrained within them. A major part of changing our perceptions means that a person has to be willing to look at their current belief system scrutinizing it honestly. Simply put, a person needs to ask themselves simple questions such as "Is this belief system working for me?" or "Is it promoting positive perceptions in my life or negative ones?"

This is not always an easy task to accomplish. Some of these belief systems are a part of what makes up a person's character. It takes courage and a strong desire to change. A person has to change in order to realize what the value of a different perception can be. It is vitally important that a person remember that it is a belief that is being scrutinized and not the person themselves.

Many times as people look at their own beliefs they find that it is not the belief itself that is the problem, but that they themselves have forgotten in the hectic lifestyles of today's world what they hold as truth for themselves. By stopping and looking at their own beliefs, many times they can change their own outlook by returning to what they have always believed in and just stopped practicing.

It is up to each person what choices they make in their belief system and as a result what perception they have on life. It is their own responsibility for how they perceive the world around them. Opening up to new perceptions can be a bit scary and intimidating. Stopping to realize that changing your attitude and outlook upon life is not a result of changing you as a person, but as a result of some hard soul searching can make the task a bit less frightening.

The action of stopping to allow yourself the time to determine what your own beliefs are many times is the key to having a positive outlook on life.