YES, YES YOU CAN: Live Your Happiest Life! - Softcover

Heimer, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504361369 ISBN 13: 9781504361361

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2016

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Yes, Yes You can is a book geared towards personal growth. With this growth, comes a clearer understanding of oneself and therefore a clearer understanding of the path of your happiness... a happiness you deserve

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Yes, Yes You Can

Live Your Happiest Life!

By Elizabeth Heimer

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2016 Elizabeth Heimer
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-6136-1

Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, vii, 
FOREWORD, ix, 
CHAPTER 1, 1, 
BE KIND TO YOURSELF, 1, 
ACTION STEPS, 9, 
CHAPTER 2, 11, 
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, 11, 
ACTION STEPS, 17, 
CHAPTER 3, 19, 
LET IT GO, 19, 
ACTION STEPS, 27, 
CHAPTER 4, 29, 
ACT MINDFULLY, 29, 
ACTION STEPS, 34, 
ACCOUNTABILITY, 35, 
ACTION STEPS, 41, 
CHAPTER 6, 43, 
YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH, 43, 
ACTION STEPS, 49, 
CHAPTER 7, 51, 
EMBRACE CHANGE, 51, 
ACTION STEPS, 57, 
CHAPTER 8, 59, 
MANTRAS, 59, 
FINAL THOUGHTS, 63, 

CHAPTER 1

BE KIND TO YOURSELF

There is a common misconception in our society that being kind to yourself is selfish. In reality, it is quite the opposite.

When you are kind to yourself it leads to a far greater acceptance of yourself and therefore a greater acceptance of others.

You lose the urge or habit of talking down to or about yourself. This leads to breaking the habit of talking down to others.

You start to live a happier life. A life filled with a positive outlook rather than a negative one. You start living the life you deserve and while doing so, it spills over to others and creates a more positive atmosphere.

Do you get where I am going with this? Self-kindness is NOT selfish but an absolute necessity in life. By being kind to yourself, you are showing others how you want to be treated and how they should be treating themselves. This leads to a much better emotional atmosphere.

So where do you go from here? The first step is to figure out what self-kindness means to you and what steps you need to take to start with.

There are three main areas of your life to address: physical, emotional and spiritual. Let's take a look at each area and why it is important to be kind to yourself.

First is the physical area. Be kind to your body. You only get one so treat it as best you can. This area can be a big, and I mean BIG, stumbling block for a lot of people. Only you know how you are treating your body and what changes you need to make. Only you know what will work for you to make these changes. It is personal to each individual. Let's take a look at an example.

If you are not being kind to your physical self, it affects your health and therefore your well-being. If you don't feel your best it can hinder your thought process. This can lead to compounding unhealthy habits.

Think back to a time when you were really hungry and had to make some important decisions. Were you able to give your complete attention to the task at hand or were your thoughts occupied with when you were going to eat? Let's take this a step further. You finally get to eat, so you want something really fast. This is where the term fast food comes in; it is fast but not necessarily good for your body. We can all remember a time when we quickly stuffed ourselves with such food only to say afterwards how gross we felt. We did not give our bodies the proper fuel to function at its peak. Ok, do you follow this part?

Now think back to a time when you had a nutritious meal and then had to make decisions. By nourishing your body, you are feeding your brain and are able to make better decisions. Kind of like a fog lifting.

We all do things that are not healthy to our physical body: being physically inactive, smoking, drinking too much, etc. You can see where I am headed with this. It is really hard to be on task all the time but you try to do the best you can. Bad habits can be changed but not all at once. Sometimes it takes more than one try to change the bad habit into a healthier one. One of the best kindnesses you can do for yourself is to keep trying so you can have a good, strong, healthy body. You can find the strength, yes strength, to make the changes you need. These changes won't happen overnight. It all takes time but it is time well spent because it is spent on you.

The next area we are going to look at is being kind to yourself emotionally. This is a Big Job because we all have a tendency to put ourselves down whether or not we are aware of it.

Our emotional health is very complicated. As complicated as each and every one of us is. As complicated as each of our thoughts are. These thoughts are what we operate with each and every day of our lives. We cannot always control our thoughts but we can train them in a more positive direction. It simply takes time and effort. Sounds easy, right? NOT! If it was just that simple, we would all be living our best lives. Our thoughts are one of the hardest things to address and how we think about ourselves is the hardest to change.

Have you ever had someone compliment you and you just shrugged it off? Why? Let's go in the opposite direction: have you ever had someone say something negative about you and you immediately believe them? Why? Why is it easier to believe the bad but not the good?

The emotional kindnesses we show ourselves are the best gifts we can give to ourselves. We do deserve it and that is something we'll discuss in a future chapter. Where to start? Once again, you need to determine what's your end goal is and what steps you need to take to get there. Take it one step at a time. A good step to start with is to stop speaking negatively about yourself. Try to do that every day.

The last area is spiritual kindness. This is one of the most neglected kindnesses in our lives. It is the kindness of allowing ourselves to believe something or someone. We all need something or someone to believe in, in a spiritual and inner way. We, as humans, need to be able to pray, wish, commune or speak in some way, to our belief. Being spiritually kind helps us to live a calmer life. This calmer life leads to a happier life. Having a spiritual belief or faith helps us to have a belief and faith in humanity.

Physical, emotional and spiritual self-kindness is all tied together. We need to be kind to ourselves in each of these areas because how we treat ourselves in each one affects the other areas. Like a Celtic Knot, they are entwined. If we do not get the right nourishment, we can't think straight or find comfort. If we are not emotionally kind to ourselves, we neither care how we treat our body nor care to look for our comfort. If we are spiritually unkind to ourselves, we can never find our place of comfort where we can be truly kind to ourselves.

Like I said at the beginning of this book, each chapter will have an action page and a result page. It doesn't matter which action you start with as long as you choose one and START!

ACTION STEPS

Choose 3 changes you would like to make in each area:

Physical

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Emotional

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Spiritual

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Now choose 3 from the above to start working on (They can be from the same area)

The 3 changes I chose and results after 1 week

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After 2 weeks

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After a month

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CHAPTER 2

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT

Being stuck in your current state of unhappiness and not being able to find a way out is not your fault. You did not intentionally strive to live a life of unhappiness but circumstances in life have built up in such a way that, before you know it, you are stuck.

You have such a busy life that what makes you happy goes by the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1504361369
• ISBN 13: 9781504361361
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 78
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