Review of
Section 8
My New Messages to Myself You have done some deep work, noticing negative feelings and thoughts that have not served you and remembering the good-ness of you. You have worked on compassion for yourself as “perfectly imperfect.” For new messages to ‘stick’, you must say them, write them, think them over and over and over. That’s how we learned our negative messages and how we will replace them with positive messages that more accurately reflect who we really are. This is an important step toward healing. Ask your healing partner to help you hear your new positive messages.
Exercise: Positive Messages 1. Review the “new”, more positive messages you came up with for yourself in the last exercise. 2. Re-write them below, making them even more positive and simple if you can. Examples •
I need and deserve the support of others.
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God is infinitely compassionate toward the world and that includes me.
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I respect myself and my own feelings.
Write your new, more positive messages:
3. Now, take a minute or two to think about how you feel when you hear these messages.
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