So many times I meet people who say, I do not recognize myself anymore. I was never like this. I do not know who I am now. I have lost my innocence. I do not know what I like more. I do not know myself anymore.
Over a period of time, we forget about someone who is the most important person in our lives. “SELF”
When I ask this question, who is the most important person in your life, most of the time the answer is someone else or sometimes people even wonder who is the most important person. For a married male or female it’s their family and kids, for kids it’s parents and sometimes they wonder when they have some family issues going on.
So he came with the same question and said that he was feeling he was into depression. He shared that he looked into the mirror and was trying to avoid it as he felt that he did not know himself.
HE sat down and wrote, how he was, how he is and how he wanted to be. There was a little difference between how he was and how he wanted to be. But a huge gap was there between how he is right now and how he would want to be. He started taking corrective actions, started telling himself good things.
He would wake up every morning and would affirm, how he really wanted to be rather than all the stress he was carrying, how people saw him, how he was being judged. He stopped letting others’ judgment cloud his mind. Throughout the day, he took small breaks and reminded himself of who he was becoming and who he wanted to be. In a few days, he could feel the difference and he felt so connected with himself.
Now, he was no longer afraid of being alone. HEHe shared that he did not feel insecure. He trusted himself more. He could take up new work. He was happier because he could find a connection with himself.
A surprising thing happened. because he valued himself, he felt others were valuing him too. His relationships with colleagues and partners also improved. His relationship with wife also improved. He realized to have a good relationship with all, he needed to have a good relationship with himself first. Without that he was just managing everything.
