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In all the world there is
no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone
choose it.
I own everything about me; my body, my
feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others
or myself - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and
mistakes, because I own all of me. I can become intimately
acquainted with me.
By so doing I can love me and be friendly with
me in all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that
puzzle me and other aspects that I do not know, but as long as I am
friendly and loving myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for
solutions to the puzzles for the ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
whatever I say and do and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in
time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I
looked, sounded, thought and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can
discard that which is unfitting keep the rest and invent something new
for that which I have discarded. I can see , hear, feel, think, say and
do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and
things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore I
can engineer me - I am me and I am okay.
©
Virginia Satir, 1975.
Found in Virginia Satir, Self Esteem, Celestial Arts: California,
1975.
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