World Wide Perspective: Consciously Choosing a Positive Self Image versus Holding onto an Old Negative Self Image
If our human system has been negatively impacted by abuse, neglect, humiliation or made to feel worthless, tainted, undervalued, discounted or dismissed, for example, we can accidentally form a negative self image that we continue to carry around in our subconscious or unconscious layer of our personality or sense of self. We do not mean to carry it there, express it towards others, act it out as if that is who we are but, if we don't know it is there, that negative self image can behave as if it is itself, going unchecked by our Truer Self, who knows that is actually a false self. As human beings, we have many abilities, resources, techniques and talents to cover up, distract and overcome through sheer will power, hidden emotional, mental, intellectual, psychological and even spiritual pain that we may have stuffed away, perhaps as far back as childhood! We can become experts at coping, surviving and even fooling ourselves. As we become more and more ...