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I Am the Hero of My Own Life (Brianna
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(a self-portait)
I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 4 7 4 8 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T Imagine yourself in five years. Imagine meeting that person and having a conversation with them. What do they look like? What do they tell you? How do they feel? I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 4 9 5 0 B R I A N N A W I E S T D R A W A N D E X A M I N E What are the things you dream of for your life? Got them? Okay, now draw them in this space Now cross out anything that’s physical. Money, a better body, a new car or house or anything like that. Is there anything left? If so, what is it? If not, why? I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 5 1 I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 5 3 “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no ef- fort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achieve- ment, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” —Angela Duckworth 5 4 B R I A N N A W I E S T P R A Y E R These are the most powerful prayers in the universe, and you say them all the time: I am thankful for… I am grateful for… I am sick of… I am worried about… I am… I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 5 5 I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 5 7 Stop trying to let go. Stop trying to push away. The sheer force of you trying to ig- nore something spotlights your attention on it. Stop standing in the ruins. Build the new city. What is the opposite of everything you fear and feel? What would stand in place of everything you’re trying to “let go” of? Run to it. Become it. Think about nothing but it. Soon it will become you, too. 5 8 B R I A N N A W I E S T P H O T O Find a photo of yourself from five or more years ago. Glue it on this page Flip back to remember how far you’ve come. I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 5 9 6 0 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T If you could wake up tomorrow completely healed and fully the person you want to be, what would your day look like? I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 6 1 I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 6 3 Thank you, thank you, thank you for the anxiety. Thank you for the loss. Thank you for everything I resisted and suppressed. Thank you for the shadows, thank you for the heaviness. Thank you, thank you, thank you. These things are not here to punish me; they are here to transform me. It only hurts when I don’t understand their power and their purpose, and therefore, it is with fear that I punish myself. 6 4 B R I A N N A W I E S T When you’ve lost your trust in the universe, when you don’t feel like you can relax into life because it hasn’t sup- ported you before, remember this: your setup is probably wrong. You’re thinking that there’s you, and then there’s this singular “god,” a separate entity that may or may not grace you. In reality, you are part of the whole energy field and life supports life. Mother Nature wants everything to thrive, to grow, to move toward the sun—and you are of this nature. You don’t need to beg, pray, or wait for grace, you are it. It is impossible to be unsupported. The leaf that has to wrap around the branch to reach the sun’s rays is not being punished, it is being guided and redirected. Life supports life and you are part of life. You can relax know- ing that your growth, your joy, your grace, your calm, your vision serves everything and everyone because it is part of everything and everyone. You do not need trust. You only have to know. I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 6 5 The oak doesn’t contemplate shedding leaves and deepen- ing roots. The evergreen does not require effort to hold onto its needles. You are the only one capable of mourning the leaves and wondering about the trees. You are only in pain because you are trying to resist what you are. The thing about your nature is that she isn’t stasis. We use that term to describe that within us which is unchangeable—but that’s not what nature is at all. She has cycles and patterns, she has traits and reactions. But she isn’t predictable. She evolves—she must. And so does everything she touches. 6 6 B R I A N N A W I E S T I am better than I have ever been. Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. I am healthier than I have ever been. I am in a better financial position than I have ever been. I have better friends than I have ever had. I am happier with my life than I have ever been. I am growing and improving every day. I can look back on my life and I see how far I’ve come. I can look at my life now and see where I want to go. I am healed and know now that I always have been. I am whole and know now that I always have been. I am happy and know now that I have always been. I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 6 7 I have the power to create the life I want. I am the one I have been waiting for all along. I am the spouse, the god, the healing, and the wholeness. It has been me all along. I can create exactly what I want—no, not the money, or the job, or the status, but the inner peace, and the awe, and the joy, and the love. You know, the good stuff. 6 8 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T This is a list of things I find very, very beautiful: I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 6 9 I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 7 1 To honor the mind’s power, put it to work. Let it remind you to drink water, pay your bills, stay organized, clean the house when it’s time. Let your mind be your yang, your masculine force. Let it tell you how. To honor the soul’s power, put it to work. Let it tell you whom to spend time with. Let it tell you what to do with your days. Let it remind you that the smell of fresh air is the best feeling and that you are destined for more than what you have now. Let your soul be your yin, your femi- nine force. Let it tell you what. 7 2 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T Here is a list of small changes I could start making each day that would ultimately help me reach my biggest goals: I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 7 3 7 4 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T Your calmest, most patient, most relaxed, most knowing, most wise, most accepting, most happy self. Not your most successful or glamorous self: that’s your ego’s best self. The real you. The one that’s trying to emerge. I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 7 5 7 6 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T Ask someone close to you to describe you and your life as though you were trying to explain yourself to a stranger. Write or paste what they say here. I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 7 7 7 8 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T This is the fondest memory I have with my parents: I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 7 9 8 0 B R I A N N A W I E S T L I S T This is the time in my life in which I felt most like myself: I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 8 1 I A M T H E H E R O O F M Y O W N L I F E 8 3 “Start with this: not all pain matters. There are people whose attention is consistently drawn away from their purpose and toward their pain, like a moth to a light. Such peo- ple, who pay attention to every annoyance and obstacle in their way, are usually unsuc- cessful in their endeavors. In extreme cases they are mentally ill. A healthy person, a flourishing person, learns to move past a lot of annoyance and a good deal of pain. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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