Heal Yourself With Writing by Catherine Ann Jones

Author:Catherine Ann Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Divine Arts

EXERCISE

Repeat the same exercise. Remember that before action are thought and vision. Hold the dream in your mind and in your heart. It might just surprise you what can happen!

If I could live anywhere in the world, I would live _____________ because ______________.

If I could do anything I wanted to, I would _____________ because __________________.

If I could be with anyone I choose, I would live with _______________ because _____________________.

EXERCISE

Now note what came up differently and write about why you think your answers shifted.

Never forget that the power of choice is ever there. Even if we cannot always control outer events in our lives, the one choice that remains is to choose our perspective.

The late psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, in Man’s Search for Meaning, shares his story of being a Holocaust survivor during World War II. After witnessing his entire family killed in a concentration camp, Frankl had an epiphany that not only changed his life but became the foundation of his important work later in New York. He was stripped of everything and everyone who held meaning for him. Then he was stripped of any power to change the horror around him. Then Frankl realized that though he had no power over outer events, he did have power over how he perceived what was happening. Frankl later wrote, “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” This shift in perspective determined his life from then on and helped hundreds of his patients.

In other words, we can choose how we view what is happening to us. Remember that before action, comes thought and vision. Hold the vision in your mind and in your heart, and it might surprise you what happens!

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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