Ewya Magazine Issue 4 November & December 2016 | Page 12

Confidence for me is the ability to love
yourself unconditionally and have the skill to
live and breathe your truth which allows you
to stand in your own power.
When I talk about living your truth, I am
referring to many aspects that have merged to
form you in the beautiful being you are.
Acknowledge who you are, not who society,
your peers and your parents have made you,
but who you are on a soul level. When you
strip away the layers of self-limiting beliefs,
hatred, hurt and pain, you will find the true
essence of who you are which is
unconditional love and oneness, with all that
is.
If you constantly criticise yourself, don’t like
who you are, or lack confidence that is
because someone taught you to criticise,
dislike, hate or invalidate yourself. When you
were a child you were happy, free, perfect,
beautiful and innocent.
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Somewhere along the way someone stole that
from you and taught you, that you didn’t fit into
society’s ideals of beauty, intelligence or race.
Often what makes you truly unique is what
people
criticise the most. Most of us were taught it
was better to fit in than be unique.
Consider this, as a child, you worked harder at
school to impress teachers you loved and that
like you. You became that they wanted you to
be, in order to impress them. In classes where
the teachers didn’t like you or shouted at you,
you stopped trying and gave up. The less
you tried the harsher the teacher’s criticism
became. The more you believed you would
amount to nothing. Especially if the teacher
was reinforcing that belief. Every day your
belief grew stronger and stronger.
Until it became a core belief.