Believes

When reviewing our believes, one would normally think about one's religious stand - whether you are religious or not, a believer or not - and from there on we cascade down the things we believe. Things we think are good or are bad, the principles we believe in, the values we hold up, our political views, our economical views and even our philosophical path. Somehow we continue unraveling these things on and on from the daily to the more abstract. We believe that Earth is round or flat or has the shape of a potato. We believe in a big intergalactic conspiracy or not. We believe that the man has gone to the moon, or that Neil Armstrong "moon-landed" on a Hollywood stage.

Take a moment, think. Ask yourself, what do you believe in?

And as we spiral further and further out, to atoms and the inherent good or evil in people, we walk past one of the most important things, we should believe in: we don't list in here that we believe in ourselves.

Do we believe in ourselves? Do we truly do? It's no matter of religion or political stand, it's rather a matter of  the actual place we put ourselves in our own life. This is different from the position we may put ourselves in the lives of others, or a matter of being egotistical or selfish in anyway. This bypassing of our believe in ourselves, might go deeper, may show how we also resource to trusting our own capabilities - our real capabilities, and not the ones others tell us we have or lack of - confiding first in others, thus eroding time and again our own believe in ourself. What keeps us from believing ourselves? From having this belief firmly present in our minds?

Reasons might be simple, many, complex or rooted deep in our family tree or spread through our daily network, it doesn't matter much. If we believe in ourselves, and remind ourselves daily of it, perhaps we would be less depressed, or less harsh in our judgement of ourselves. We wouldn't blame ourselves for everything, or wouldn't go around seeking escape goats for everything in hopes to get free of the blame of things we may or may not be guilty of. We could be able to accept ourselves better. Believing in yourself entails knowing yourself first, start down the path of self knowledge and self understanding, and as you get deeper and deeper into this, you'll believe in yourself deeper and deeper too. You wouldn't feel devastated for your failures, but by believing in yourself you'll know that you can still do it. Success won't get to your head, though you would be more free to enjoy it and celebrate it.

Your believe in yourself won't build only on your success, but also on your failures and on every path and work in progress. It would build in your peaceful, quite moments, in your moments of action as well as in your moments of meditation, as you ciment your believes or change your mind.

Leave a note to yourself, write it on the wallpaper of your laptop, stick a post-it to your mirror, or write it into a bookmarker you take with you or you use in your daily planner. Remind yourself that you believe in yourself, no matter how good or bad was your day, or well you did in your test, or what others tell you. Believe in yourself, and this simple thing could become your daily spiritual morning coffee that brightens up the rest of your day. Try it out!