What I most like about myself?

The List is endless . . .

• I always critique whatever I consume both at an intellectual level and in terms of my emotional response to it.
• I am very health conscious about my diet, exercise, and environment, mode of transport, posture and risk.
• I love how deep in thought I can go, loving the feeling of my soul being re-enriched by a time of introspective calm.
• I relish every moment I spend ‘in the zone’ where I know consciously I’m riding that powerful horse of my instincts and the ideas just flow wonderfully.
• I cherish my unconscious’s ability to wake me up on time, remember what’s important, and throw up the most spectacular dreams I could ever imagine.
• I thoroughly enjoy the challenging delight of spontaneity in the day to day.
• I like my dress sense . . . it’s totally . . . me. Same goes for my taste in music, art and film.
• I love the energy and passion I bring to my self-expression.
• I truly value my immense degree of patience.
• I like how forthright I can be and the wealth of emotional energy saved thereby.
• I love how when I’m ill, run down, tired, stressed or just cold how I can wrap up my wellbeing in arms of comfort through eating well, treating myself, and staying curious with how I feel at all times.
• I admire the discipline I take to enacting if not the principles I hold as my ideals at least the first virtue of honesty. In other words, I can totally do whatever I want so long as I remain conscious of that choice and that I also choose its consequences.
• I love the way I smile when I make another breakthrough in self knowledge, like reacting to the punch line of a running joke my unconscious has been playing on myself that I half knew was going on.
• I respect my dedication to self awareness and the exploration of my own psyche in regular therapy sessions, journaling, dream analysis and talking it all over with friends.
• I’m in awe of the acts of integrity I’ve made in the past in dissociating from friends and relatives who were destructive and fed my false self defences.
• I like how I can put my feelings aside to really be there for someone else and get into their shoes in the moment and help them through what they’re dealing with.
• I’m really grateful for the strong, passionate feeling of loneliness that drives me closer to people like a moth to a flame. I have been hurt many times from running headlong into a brick wall with my arms outstretched, but I continue to do so, I open my welcoming arms once more to embrace the next warm feeling of secure friendship.

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