Encourage yourself
Self-praise activates:
Love
Trust
Joy
Excitement
Oxytocin
Abundance
Self-criticism activates:
Fear
Anger
Disgust
Shame
Sadness
Scarcity
Under praise’s spell, no one’s light can diminish our own. We need to bask in that shit.
On the other hand, criticism is contracting and makes us small. Small is not who we are.
Remember a time when you felt encouraged, seen, loved? Sit with that. How does it feel in your physical body? In your emotions? Mind? In your Spirit?
If you’re like me, you can feel it best in your physical body. I stand a little taller. Maybe my shoulders drop.
As artists and creators, we can’t afford to play small. We must be who we are, remember who we are, love who we are.
Good job Joce, I say to myself as I post this.
