How to overcome mental stumbling blocks
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7). What do you really think and believe about yourself? Do you think you're a good, fill in the blank ______ (mom, dad, bishop, teacher, home teacher, visiting teacher, etc.)? Do you have doubts that God's love and mercy is available to you?
Sometimes our biggest obstacles in life aren't the challenges we face in the world, but our beliefs and thoughts about ourselves. We don't develop loving relationships, achieve vocational goals or progress spiritually because of the limitations we put on ourselves. Thoughts that we're not good enough, not worth being loved or unable to improve prevent us from becoming our best selves.
I have suffered from these feelings from time to time. In every aspect of my life I have questioned whether I was good enough or worthy of my success. There have been many missed opportunities or subpar performances because in my mind I was incapable.
Sometimes these thoughts develop in our childhood because of emotional abuse. Sometimes they develop because of a perfectionist mentality, such as a belief that anything less than perfect is unacceptable. Whatever the cause may be, we have to be careful not to allow these thoughts to take over.
In overcoming negative thoughts, I think it is important to have an understanding of who we are and what we can become. We are children of our Heavenly Father and he loves us. As his sons and daughters we have the ability to achieve many great and marvelous things. On our own, our abilities may be limited, but with God we can do anything.
It is also important to understand that, when the Lord says, "Be ye therefore perfect," he understands that our perfection may take a lifetime. He knows that sometimes we're going to stumble and sometimes fall. Through patience, diligence and commitment, we can work toward perfection.
Avoid comparing yourselves to others. Heavenly Father has made us each unique. Accept and appreciate what you have to bring to the table. Be the best that you can be, not the best compared to so-and-so.
Erase all those negative thoughts in your head. Reciting aloud positive affirmations can help. Replace those negative statements that "I am not worthy, lovable, important, a good person" with positives ones: "I am worthy, lovable, important, and a good person." Keep repeating it until you believe it.
Our thoughts have the ability to limit or free us. We have the power to choose which one it will be.
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Sometimes these thoughts develop in our childhood because of emotional abuse. Sometimes they develop because of a perfectionist mentality, such as a belief that anything less than perfect is unacceptable. Whatever the cause may be,
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I disagree with him, on the grounds of my own experience, the experience of the many hundreds of women I’ve worked with, and my contact with others who have been through seemingly unbearable trauma, and come out the other side, whole and happy.
But first, a word about Omar. His ex-wife was killed by an abusive partner. Both he and the woman he is now married to have been victims of domestic violence. He has suffered immensely, and he makes sense of that experience in the very best way he can – as we all do.
I honor his standpoint, and I disagree with it.
By the time my marriage broke up, I was just about the most negative woman on the planet – which was hardly surprising after all those years living in the very long, very dark shadow of the most negative man on the planet. (Or at least the most negative man I knew… barring my father-in-law, come to think of it.)
Still, one thing I believed with every fibre of my being was that I had to heal.
So, I told myself two stories. On the one hand, I told myself that my life, and my psyche, had been smashed into a million tiny pieces by my abusive husband, and neither could ever be made whole again. On the other, I believed healing was possible, and I had to do it.
Often that second, small voice, call it optimism, or simply survival, was drowned out by the belief that I was broken. Yet, that small voice remained. At a very profound level, I believed what it was telling me, and that saved me. That was what allowed me to pursue a course of learning and healing in the outside world.
In the end, it is the story we tell ourselves that determines the quality of our life.
My ex-husband was a second generation concentration camp survivor. His parents spent the Second World War in a Russian concentration camp. They, and almost their entire immediate families survived. My in-laws left Russia, and went on to build a successful business in the New World. They had three children, who all became high achievers, and they lived long, healthy lives.
Yet, in their own minds, my in-laws had never left that concentration camp.
When I joined that family, I, too, found myself in that concentration camp.
Compare that, if you will, with a man I’ll call Henry. Henry was a Nazi concentration camp survivor. A Polish Jew, he lost his entire family, barring one sister, in the Holocaust. His fellow survivors have been as dear to him as family for the rest of his life. He made a wonderful marriage, has children and grandchildren he loves dearly, and he built a thriving business.
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