Teen Esteem Council » self-talk

The Garden of Your Mind

Mat Edvik — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:23:08 +0000

In this episode Mat and Summer discuss the ways your mind is like a garden. If you plant what you want in a garden and if you take care of that garden, it will produce the fruits, vegitables, or flowers that you desire. But if you don’t take care of the garden it will produce weeds and useless plants. Our minds are the same. We can choose what to plant in the garden of our minds, and what we plant there will manifest itslef into our reality.

The Media’s Map

Mat Edvik — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:39:46 +0000

In this podcast episode Mat and Summer discuss the streets that you will find along the route that media would like you to take to find happiness and self esteem. That route does not lead to happiness however. Listen to find out more about the route to true happiness and self esteem.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

summeramorris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:07:03 +0000

How many of us wake up and look in the mirror and see yourself for who we are versus what we see. Sometimes doing this over and over again creates a belief system about yourself that can end up being really negative. If you have practiced for weeks, months or even years seeing yourself as ugly, fat, unloveable, dumb, or even not enough, you have been practicing something that isn’t entirely true.

I heard a quote that I love that describes this a bit, it says, “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got” (Peter Francisco). Meaning, that if you keep practicing this negative way, you will keep getting those same thoughts in your head. However, if you can practice seeing yourself differently (even if you don’t believe it at first), you might get a different outcome.

Stop doing what you’ve always done and maybe you’ll get something different in return. You might even start seeing yourself as better than you think!

*Summer