Affirmations for Self-respect and Self-control

A GUIDED IMAGERY SCRIPT

BY ARLENE HARDER, MA, MFT

This guided imagery exercise allows you to develop a healthy ego with which you can become a strong, loving, valuable, contributing member of society.

There are important concepts of self-respect and self-control we all need to have as part of our toolkit of inner resources. These concepts grow out of affirmations that are best learned as we move through stages of growth before we reach adulthood.

However, if we were not given these affirmations when we were young, or were not able to fully absorb their meaning, we may not realize the importance of these statements when wanting to be the best we can be. That is why it is well to be reminded of them.

Therefore, if you would like to learn — to review — these messages, it is not too late. You can grow up again, so to speak, by noticing the affirmations you most need at this time.

In the spring of 2007 I will finish work on a set of two CDs that show how a positive, or negative, sense of self influences our lives every day. Included will be a special imagery script that will take you through the stages of development and give you an opportunity to grow up again with the affirmations you need to be the person who want to be.

In the meantime, be sure to see Affirmations for Everyone. (See the sidebar.)

© Copyright 2007, Arlene Harder, MA, MFT

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT THROUGH THE YEARS

Affirmations for Everyone is a four-minute presentation of how affirmations appropriate to each period of growth is the best way to navigate developmental cycles.

As you examine the legacy given to you by your parents and grandparents, you may discover strengths you underestimated. You may also realize you didn't hear important affirmations you would benefit from today. But it's never too late to learn what you may have missed.

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