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Self-Image
Unfolds Man's Essential Problem as well as its Solution
Positive self image, is
your primary condition of positive functioning
The literature of psychology describes man’s self-image as a
sort of internal picture, depicting our subconscious concept of
the type of people that we are. It reveals our subconscious
inner truth. This internal picture was constructed through our
various self-beliefs, which were unconsciously formed,
particularly in early childhood. Opinions and beliefs that fit
this image are accepted and subconsciously join this inner
truth, while opinions and beliefs that don't match are rejected.
All our
activities, feelings, behaviors, and even our capacities and
personalities fit this image. Namely, we act in accordance with
the inner truth that our self-image depicts. Furthermore,
despite our efforts and wishes, we cannot act differently. For
instance, a man who believes he's a failure will find a way in
which to fail, despite his best efforts to do the contrary. A
man who regards himself as a victim of injustice will find
circumstances to justify this belief. The same applies if a man
believes that he is static (incapable of self-development),
inferior, negative or positive creature,
etc.
According to the
presented principle, a person who holds an inner picture as a
negative creature will consequently do evil while rejecting the
doing of Good. This self-image forms the main obstruction to
man’s positive development, and so it causes him to do evil by
nature. The direct result of this is all of the horrible things
that people do to one another and sometimes to themselves during
history. Therefore the inner perception that man is a
negative creature is the main reason for his basic problem (the
evil doing).
It
can therefore be said that this inner truth obstructs child's positive development and leads him or her to act
accordingly.
Improving Man's
Self-Image:
In order to truly live, it is essential that your
inner truth
will be one with which you can act in the real world. It must be
a self-truth
you can believe in and trust; a self-image you will not be
ashamed or embarrassed about, which you will feel free to
express and tackle honestly; an
inner
truth
capable of recognizing your weak points as well as your strong
ones. Your internal
truth
will be close to the personality and functioning you exhibit.
You are proud of it when it is
positive. Feel
confident, and free to express yourself. Then you function
optimally. When it is inegative you are ashamed of it and
try to hide it,then your
positive creative expression is obstructed. You grow
hostile, and stubborn, and dealing with you becomes difficult.
What do we all long for?
It can be said with confidence that each of us yearns for a
greater experience of "real life," more joy,
happiness, and love. This will be actualized by the proper
expression of our
positive self-image,
values, urges, capabilities and natural
talents. If, however, we obstruct their
expression we will detach ourselves from our God-given gifts and
the urges of life within us. We will then rapidly approach
death.
It was already some 2500 years ago that the prophets of Israel
came up with the idea of Shuva (returning), encouraging the
children of Israel to its realization. According to them, man
can improve himself so far as to erase his own past. The present
suggests that this idea, like so many other ideas propagated by
the ancient world's prophets and philosophers, remained almost
entirely without application due to the circumstances of those
times.
This website, as well as other literature of its kind, claims
that it is possible to improve one's self-image. It has been
found to be impossible to think positively about something so
long as your opinion of it is negative. Many experiments have
proved that when your opinion of it becomes positive, you will
be able to achieve the desired improvement without needless
resistance or strain. Those same internal forces within you,
which previously caused negative phenomena, will now work to
eradicate it.
TheSolution
for People's Basic Problem
According to all the conclusions mentioned, it can be assumed
that holding a self-image as a positive creature will bring
about your positive development and the doing of true Good.
Simultaneously, you will reject the doing of evil. Possessing
this self-image is a primary condition for achieving improved
functioning.
Periodically residing in the
Sabbath's holiness
or
meditative state
will not only dissolve your self-image as a negative
creature, but will also promote the birth and development of
a positive, wise and evolving self-image. Achieving this
will encourage your positive development with all it entails.
Man's main problem
today is accepting this opinion, as well as acknowledging it as truth. Due to Man's negative habits in the past,
man is
closer in believing that he is a negative creature. This makes
it imposible to accept the truth that he is a positive
creature, with all that it entails.
The moral education, or spiritual improvement in this website presents the solution for
this essential problem.
Therefore this process of education must be seen to be the most important
national and international goal.
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Our self image, strongly held and essentially determines what we
become.
Maxwell Maltz
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is nothing in the world more shameful
than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Wolfgang
von Goethe
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit
atrocities.
Voltaire
A nation or civilization that continues to
produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the
installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
It's
not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
The sole meaning of life
is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile
Albert Einstein
An
individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
humanity
Luther
King, Jr.
It's your life, your one and only
life-so take excellence very personally
Scott Johnson
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the
thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Wolfgang
von Goethe
Nothing carries more potential for positive change than individual acts
of human kindness.
Jamie Winship
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