The world is constantly trying to tell us that we need to be skinnier, prettier, “basically look like a Barbie”, be popular, have more possessions, money, etc…all of this pressure that makes us think that this is the only way to achieve happiness, self esteem or to be “complete in life” but, in reality this is all a huge lie! And it’s so sad that it’s so pushed on us from every direction! from music, tv, media, society etc…that we are bombarded by these images or people that can affect us and make us feel less of ourselves. 🙁
Many studies have been done in which people reach a certain level of ” great achievement” in the eyes of the world and even once they reach that level of popularity, looks, money etc…they still feel like they are lacking or missing something! Even after searching and gaining more and more, they still were not satisfied and realized that they were always lacking something. All of the years searching for more of what was in the external took their focus away from their internal self and they forgot about their self love, their inner peace, their self esteem, their being inside, and in most cases some completely forgetting about God. They described themselves as having a lot but still missing something inside and a level of unhappiness.
No matter how much we get from the external it can never truly change what is deep inside of us.That healing can only from us being honest with ourselves and asking God to help us. Specially in this world where our self esteem is constantly being attacked (specially for us as woman) we must be strong enough to remind ourselves constantly in the daily battles that we face and will continue to face for as many days as God wants us to be here on this earth that we are to stand strong for who we are. We must reming ourselves that we are children of God His sons and daughters! Psalms 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. How beautiful is that??? Why do we let the world tell us lies about our potential or our beauty? if we are beautiful to the most amazing being in the universe who created us! then why should we worry about the standards that others have for beauty? I read something that said “instead of trying to be what the world wants you to be, try living your life by the standards the Lord has set. HIS WAYS NEVER CHANGE AND YOU WILL NEVER BE UNPOPULAR TO HIM!!!
So, whenever we face moments of insecurity or feeling low about ourselves lets be strong enough to confront it and change it!!! to not depend on anyone else for our happiness but to do it for ourselves! and to base upon what God thinks about us! on how incredibly much He loves each and every one of us. Let’s focus on letting go of the dust or the dirt that gets in the way of our minds and instead clean it out of our lives by asking God to forgive us for thinking negatively of ourselves and to instead help us focus on the beauty that He sees in us and in others! to be able to be thankful for the fact that our bodies are working and that they are our God given temples for our soul to be here on this earth. That we may be able to take care of ourselves the best way we can and to love ourselves for the person that God has made us to be today!
Once we are able to see ourselves in Gods way and to love and respect ourselves enough that we no longer need compliments from the world around us because God alone makes us truly fulfilled and happy… Then we will be able to go and share our love with others!!! taking the focus off of ourselves and being able to serve, and give to our spiritual brothers and sisters on this earth
Mathew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
I hope that we are all able to feel God’s love in our lives more fully and more completely! to be able to feel it to the point that all of those layers of insecurity or self doubt can be fully removed to allow us to be more centered on God’s true love for us! to respect ourselves and love ourselves enough to be able to give more fully to all of those around us, or to the entire world that they may be able to feel God’s love in their lives because of us. i know that God is able to provide us with this strength and as the daughters of God we will be able to receive if we truly search for it and fully believe in what He is able to do for us.
Our Spiritual goal for the week is to let go of the negative thoughts of self image, self esteem, or self doubt, that the world is constantly trying to throw at us! and instead, putting a STOP to those thoughts, changing them for something positive and pushing them away with the power of prayer if we need to. Asking God to help us to see ourselves as He sees us!!! To help us be more thankful for all that we have and to forget about ourselves a little more and instead give service to someone who needs it!!…I know that the more that we work on improving this, we will be able to overcome the ridiculous standards that the world has surrounding us and we will be better able to stand strong and courageous for the love that God had for us and for what he would want us to do each day of our lives. This Joy and peace that comes from the power that God can provide is way better than anything material or external that we could possibly achieve on this earth.
Our physical goal for this week is to drink more water and stay active! the goal is to replace one of our sugary drinks for water we can add lemon, or strawberries but the goal is nothing sugary or at least to cut back and have at least 3 glasses of water in one day 😉 and to continue to stay active and so something physical at least 2 days this week! those are good goals for ourselves this week! We can do this! 🙂
I’m here if you need me! stay positive and remember it’s ONE DAY AT A TIME!!! deep breaths and we do our very best! See you tonight for an awesome class that will burn calories!!! and a great meditation to leave us feeling AMAZING!!!! 🙂 Hope you can make it!
xoxo
LILI