♥ Being Yourself and Love Part 3 ♥

 ♥ Hobbies
♥ New interests
♥ I have learned

Hobbies may also be beneficial especially if they are in any way an expression of who you are, painting, sculpting and writing as an example, may lead you to some inner insights about who you really are. Try to remember what interests you had as a child and do some of that stuff now. Sometimes who we truly are is all wrapped up in our childhood and we need to visit ourselves in those days gone by to get a glimpse of that person whom we have long forgotten. I used to love sewing and knitting and I still love to do these things today, I loved to create things when I was just a little girl, my mom would give me a needle and thread and/or yarn and needles and I would create for my doll or for myself. My grandmother, my mother and some of my aunts were talented sewers and knitters, I guess it was in my blood. I still feel a sense of fulfillment when I complete a project either for myself or someone else.

New interests may be something you can look into. Do you have a desire to be a great cook, a musician, a painter, a dancer, give yourself permission to take the time to learn some of these things, you only live once (as far as I know) so make the time to do some, if not all of the things you’ve always wanted to do. I’ve always wanted to write but never believed I had anything important to say, now I took a chance and started a blog, it may not be a best selling book, but it’s a beginning, people are interested enough in coming back every day to read what I have to say, so it is fulfilling a need in me, I am being myself in these pages and learning about me every time I add a new blog.

I have learned along the way that finding out who you are is an amazing experience, not always easy, but very worthwhile. Once you begin to know who you are doors tend to open up for you because you now know what you want. Getting to know me was a long journey, it seems to have taken for ever, however, once I started to write things down and started being completely honest with myself it got easier to let others in on who I am. It was tough sometimes to look at the things I wasn’t too proud of, some things I couldn’t look at at all because they were too painful, however, the time came when it was ok to visit those places. Once I learned why I did the things I did, it was much easier to stop the behavior. One of the things I learned that I truly hated about myself (among a whole lot of other stuff) was that I cried too easily, part of it was a family pattern, part of it was because I carried it from childhood, and it was time to let go of it. I am still sensitive at times, still cry when I see a sad movie, and when other sad things happen, however, now I am in control and cry at appropriate times and often in private. I am so much happier with myself now, it is incredible how this one little thing has changed me into a person I respect a whole lot more, and this is just the beginning.






You can see “Being Yourself and Love Parts 1,2, and 3 @,


http://www.familiesandlove.com/2010/04/being-yourself-and-love-part-1.html










http://www.familiesandlove.com/2010/04/being-yourself-and-love-part-2.html