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Assume for a moment that you have in your possessing a million dollars in gold. Would you protect it? Would you safeguard this treasure? Would you respect its value? Of course you would. You might even hire bodyguards or install security devices to ensure its safety.
In comparison, your mind and self-image are worth far more than one million dollars. They are priceless. Your mind is the exclusive source of all you will create spiritually, financially or materially in your life. Your level of joy, happiness and peace of mind originates from one place, your mind. Now ask yourself, do you protect your mind as carefully as you protect your physical assets?
In all honesty, the answer is probably no. Many of us permit all types of image destroying garbage to seep into the archives of our minds and penetrate our thought processes. More than we would like to admit, many of us have allowed negative attitudes and counterproductive thinking to enter and program our metal computers. And the results are all too obvious, broken families, drug abuse and alcoholism, teen pregnancies, soaring crime rate and a waning of educational achievement.
Your mental image of yourself forms the very core of your personality, to have a positive self-image is to feel confidently appropriate to life, that is, competent and worthy. To possess an average self-image is to fluctuate between feeling appropriate and inappropriate, right and wrong as a person and to manifest these insistences in your behavior. To process a low self-image is to feet inadequate and ineffective in life.
The more positive the self-image, the better equipped you are to cope with life’s adversities, the more resilient you become, the more you are able to withstand outside forces. The more positive the self-image, the more creative you become in your daily approach toward life. The greater the self-image, the more ambitious you will be, not necessarily in a financial sense, although this does often happen, but in terms of what you hope to experience in life. The greater the self-image, the more inclined you will be to treat others with respect, kindness and sincerity, since those you face will not be perceived as threats, inferior or superior, Self-image in what you think and feel about you. There is no grater force at your service than own mind coupled with a strong, positive self-image.
