{"id":310,"date":"2015-04-26T23:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T23:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/?p=310"},"modified":"2015-04-26T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T23:42:42","slug":"do-you-remember-who-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/2015\/04\/do-you-remember-who-you-are.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Remember Who You Are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is something I used to do much more often than not…<\/p>\n

And I know you’ve done it too. The only question is, “how often?”<\/p>\n

Do you know what it is?<\/p>\n

If you do, are you aware that it goes against the very thing vital to your\"\"<\/a> existence\"\"<\/a> and especially how you would love your\"\"<\/a> life to be?<\/p>\n

What I’m referring to is “getting angry” when things don’t go your way. And at the core of this is that of you feeling “hurt”…<\/p>\n

Because after all anger masks hurt.<\/p>\n

But it’s also masking the critically important thing that’s involved in how you would love your life to be.<\/p>\n

And what I’m referring to is knowing who you truly are…<\/p>\n

Also known as being your true self.<\/p>\n

In those moments when you get angry and feel “hurt” something happens to your true self…you forget it.<\/p>\n

The idea here is to be aware of this and the best way to do so is by asking…<\/p>\n

“Do you remember who you are?”<\/p>\n

Because when you do, you’ll have a high probability of “catching” yourself in those heat of the moment situations.<\/p>\n

I can still remember many of the times that I would “fly off the handle” when things didn’t go my way. And I’ll admit that it was happening a good 75% of the time.<\/p>\n

But what I wasn’t aware of at the time was that in many ways I lost myself in those moments.<\/p>\n

It’s funny because looking back\"\"<\/a> on it all now, I can see the benefits or the “higher order\"\"<\/a>” of it because it turned out to be a vital part of being able to turn my life around.<\/p>\n

And it all began by asking the question, “do I remember who I am?”<\/p>\n

So back\"\"<\/a> to what I said earlier and now let me ask you…<\/p>\n

“Do you remember who you are?”<\/p>\n

As you think about this and answer it for yourself, just realize as I did, that you have every possible positive\"\"<\/a> and negative trait there is.<\/p>\n

And this is a good thing because it makes up who you really are.<\/p>\n

For example…<\/p>\n

There will be moments in your\"\"<\/a> life when being mean and challenging to someone else is needed…in a good way to help someone else and even yourself. Look no further than your\"\"<\/a> family and children and you’ll see this to be true.<\/p>\n

They’ll be moments when being nice and supporting are needed. And this includes towards yourself as well as others.<\/p>\n

The same is true in how you react to other people and situations…<\/p>\n

Because when you’re able to see both sides of things equally, you’ll see (and remember) more of who you really are.<\/p>\n

And in the process\"\"<\/a> love and appreciate yourself even more.<\/p>\n

In fact, isn’t it all about appreciating and loving yourself…<\/p>\n

So you can also love and appreciate others for who they are.<\/p>\n

I’d say so because this allows you to see the magnificence of you.<\/p>\n

It gets you to see that you really do matter…<\/p>\n

And it also gets you to remember who you are…<\/p>\n

The special\"\"<\/a> person who contributes a tremendous amount of value to the world through your uniqueness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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