Become a Love-creation Teacher

The Reasonable Best Test of Self-worth – Part B transcript

In part 1 of the stren on the reasonable best test of self-worth you were urged to endorse yourself each time you made your reasonable best effort in any endeavor.  Because you always have control over your input and rarely control the many factors that determine the outcome, you can consistently fulfill your needs for emotional satisfaction.  Now let’s consider how to maintain our positive energy when you recognize you aren’t doing your reasonable best.  The question invariably pops up: 

Suppose I’m not doing my reasonable best?  Don’t I deserve to feel bad about myself?

 

    The Importance of Self Endorsement transcript Welcome to today’s insight!  Stren #16 explains the multiple benefits that place self-endorsement among the most important of all the skills that we require to survive and thrive in today’s world.  You will appreciate the series of sel f-endorsement techniques that follow and will eagerly add them to your collection of wisdoms.   Here is the simple explanation of why self-endorsement skills are essential for our well-being.  Instinct and tradition hardwire their preferred problem-solving action pathways in the older part of our brain where emotion resides.  We create common sense solutions to today’s problems applying new knowledge...

 

 The Tape Recording transcript

Here is an easy to learn great way to teach yourself to become your own best friend.  I call this method “the tape recording.”  You have the ability to listen in on the conversation you mentally carry on with yourself.  Imagine you tape record this conversation several times throughout the day.  When you play back a sample, how would you describe the dialogue?  Does it sound like two good friends speaking with one another?  Is there interesting dialogue?  Can you detect enthusiasm?  Or are there significant periods of criticism, boredom, worry, blaming, self-pitying, and so on?   Why not strive to change the quality of that internal conversation so that you make your taped segments become increasingly positive?  

 

Act as if transcript

 

Today’s stren, “Act as if,” is another very effective method to change and/or create new emotions.  Even if you have difficulty experiencing emotional self-endorsement, go through the motions.  Imagine you had a part to play on the stage.  As every actor knows, if you put yourself in the role and go through the motions, the “act as if” gradually becomes “feel as if” and then the “as if” weakens.  A genuinely new sentiment is created.  What successful actors need to learn, so you also can learn.    

 

 The Bookshelf transcript

“It’s fun.”  “It works.”  “It’s given me such creative ideas.”  Such comments are some of the great feedback I’ve received from individuals who have used today’s self-endorsement stren.  I call this proven mental skill “The Bookshelf.”