The whole premise of my blog is that our thoughts impact our life, and these two paragraphs from a book I am reading are so apt…. I hope that you will be inspired to make a change in the way you think about yourself, others and situations in life.
But nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves, and it is the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system that make us do this. True, we find people who say their husband or wife, or mother or father, abused them, but you know that we abuse ourselves much more than that. The way we judge ourselves is the worst judge that ever existed. If we make a mistake in front of people, we try to deny the mistake and cover it up.
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.
Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
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It’s awful, but it’s a fact. However, that’s when you have to strive for positive self-talk. Positive Affirmations. 🙂
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Yes
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Sadly, this is all too true! 😦
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Sadly isnt, but i hope it inspires change
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“the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else” this is so true! I find myself being okay with hurtful things that people say to me because they are so much less hurtful than things I’ve thought to myself. You spend so much time butchering yourself that you forget how to defend yourself sometimes.
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The book is worth a read and honesty when recognise what we do too ourself, we should make it an aim to stop. Because we have taken the first step we have recognised and now the next step is too stop doing it. And i think and know we can stop it and change our life.. i have
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