I have been brainwashed.
I have been conditioned to treat myself very harshly, and it is going to require a great act of will for me to learn otherwise. I've become such a slave to depression and anxiety. I have allowed them to guide my choices. Now I have to use self-care as my guide instead. On the one hand I'm terrified, and on the other I know in my traumatized heart that it has to be the right path.
I can do it. I am good, I deserve to take care of myself, I deserve happiness.
All I really have to do is to remember the above. That will free me from the prison of shame that has kept me.
I can make good decisions for myself. I do not hate myself. I do not hate anybody. I can learn to see things through the way my mind was molded; which was far from ideal.
Children should be raised in safety and security. We shouldn't take our problems out on them. If we all learn to love ourselves, we won't have any s--- to take out on them in the first place.
I don't need anyone else to approve of me or to love me. I can love myself. I don't need anything else. It comes from within.
This is my public confession.
I hereby banish all of the hurtful words that were spoken in my direction. I disown them; and I also forgive those who spoke them to me. I don't need anything other than my own forgiveness. I only need my own acts of courage, down to the very smallest of them.
Do you see how that could change the world? Think about it.
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We've all been brainwashed. Isn't that what commercials on TV are all about. Paid lies meant to drive you to consume unquestioningly and unceasingly. That's why the hurtful words. We all need to speak in 10 to 30 second sound bytes and all to sell our own goods and services or how else can we be heard.
Fight the hateful words but not the word users.
"Working Class Hero" has the line, "They dope you with religion, sex and TV."
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