HOW TO VIZUALIZE YOURSELF
“One way to increase your potential for serenity is to form a strong mental picture of yourself with it. For just one day, eliminate guilt, anger, and meanness from your mind. Practice visualizing yourself as calm, purposeful, and strong. First thing in the morning, take a moment to form a mental picture of yourself smiling, happy and ready to meet the day with serenity. Throughout the day, whenever you think about it, picture yourself as deeply relaxed and peaceful.
Now, listen! It doesn’t matter if that is the way that you really feel. Without even realizing it, we tend to become just what we picture ourselves to be. After a few days of steady practice, you will feel peace taking hold in your life. So, now is the time to use your self-discipline to form a positive image of yourself.
To help you form a strong and serene picture of yourself in your mind’s eye, you might try using the following affirmations.
+My goal is serenity. I see myself as really strong, centered, and calm, with the help of a serene mind, I can face the day. I have what it takes to be happy.
+Today, I will feel the presence of peace in my life. I feel alive, filled with positive energy, happy to face the challenge of the day. Peace is positive, active, creative, and today I feel peace all around me.
+I see myself as strong, controlled and serene. (I am a child in the safety of my Higher Power). And with God’s help, I will not be frightened or alone. I am strong, Thank you God, for my strength.”
Keep saying these affirmations to yourself. Believe their positive messages. Keep practicing them, and in time they will embed themselves in your unconscious mind, where they will be accepted as fact.
Replacing old negative and hurtful thoughts with positive and healing affirmations is one of the first steps in the process of transforming chaos and pain into serenity and strength.”
Source: Strong Choices, Weak Choices, Gayle Rosellini and Mark Verden. A Harper/Hazeldon Book, Harper and Row Publishers ,San Francisco 1988, pp. 63-64.
Source: Believing is seeing: 15 Ways to leave the prison of depression. Hugh Smith. Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville. ( 2016).
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