Self-Image

"The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you can change the personality and the behavior."

But more than this, the self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishments. It defines what you can and cannot do. Expand the self-image and you expand the "area of the possible." the development of an adequate, realistic self will change the individual with new capabilities, new talents, turn failure into success.

Understanding the psychology of the self can mean the difference between success and failure, love and hate, etc. The discovery of the real self can rescue, recreate, and transform victims of "personality failure". Discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and the compulsions of conformity.

This self-image is our own conception of the "sort of person I am". It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. Most of these beliefs have unconsciously been formed from our past experience and the way other people have reacted to us, especially in early childhood.

From all of these we mentally construct a "SELF" (a picture of the self), once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this picture it becomes "true". We do not question its validity, but proceed to act upon it as if were the truth.

This SELF-IMAGE is then the key to living a better life.

1. All your actions, feelings, behavior, even your abilities are always consistent with this self-image. You "act like" the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. If you conceive yourself to be "failure type" you will find some way to fail, in spite of good intentions, will power, even if opportunity is dumped in your lap. The self-image is a premise, a base, or a foundation upon which your life is built.

2. The self-image can be changed, no one is never to young nor too old to change his/her self-image and thereby start to live a new life.

• You must find yourself acceptable to you...

• You must have a wholesome self-esteem.

• You must have a self that you can trust and believe in.

• You must have a self that you are not ashamed to "be", one that you can feel free to express, rather than hide or cover-up.

• you must...KNOW YOURSELF!