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Sep 13, 2009, 02:47 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
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Just like anything one wants to do well, meditation takes practice.
An audio tape set by Nathaniel Brandon called, The Psychology of High Self Esteem came out some 25 years ago. I don't know if it is still available. He used guided imagery to take you through your life, step by step, allowing you to "relive" certain ages and identify those which may have caused you developmental pain. It took me three times going through the entire set before something significant happened. In other words, during the third listening, I met six-year-old Vickie and took her onto my lap and comforted her. It was, for me, a life-altering experience.
Today, whenever I become aware that negative self-talk is starting to invade my daily experience (and I don't always become aware of it right away) I try to stop myself whenever I recognize critical or negative self talk, ask myself where it came from, and then say, is it really accurate based upon facts or is it simply something that I was conditioned to believe based upon something a parent said to me long ago? It is a really difficult and tedious process! But if I don't stop it, no one can help me. I must quit beating myself up out of habit.  <---- Me hugging me.
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 Vickie
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