{"id":198,"date":"2012-09-17T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-10-08T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:50:11","slug":"taping-into-your-inner-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/taping-into-your-inner-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Taping Into Your Inner Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denise Turney<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, you have limitless inner strength. There is a place inside you that never fails. There is a place inside of you that has the answer to every question you could ever ask. Right now . . . that place exists inside of you.<\/p>\n

Stop Believing Lies About Yourself; Accept the Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason you may not believe this is because, as humans, we also listen to deception and lies. If we continue to listen to lies about ourselves we may start to believe the lies. The catch is that we behave or act in alignment with our beliefs. Even Superman couldn\u2019t get around this if he tried. Our thoughts<\/em> (a belief is simply a thought you think over and over) guide and shape our behavior.<\/p>\n

Add to this the fact that we can have experiences that seem <\/em>to confirm lies we\u2019ve been told about ourselves and it\u2019s not hard to see why we can, at times, feel lost, confused or uncertain. For example, if we believe a lie that we are ignorant and we score low on a school exam we may start to strengthen our belief in the lie<\/span><\/em> that we are ignorant. Let our friends, classmates and\/or parents see our low test score and start to tease us or even call us \u201cdumb\u201d and you can see where we could take the belief.<\/p>\n

In time, we might stop raising our hand when asked the answer to a question in class. As adults we might shy away from volunteering to lead projects at work for fear that we will fail (all of this thought and behavior being driven by the belief that we are ignorant). We might even feel angry, perhaps absolutely outraged, when people refer to us as \u201cdumb\u201d – however, if the belief that we are ignorant isn\u2019t examined and seen for the lie<\/span><\/em> that it is we may continue to avoid situations that call for us to answer questions, etc.<\/p>\n

Getting to the Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now imagine what would happen to us if we believed 50 lies about ourselves. And here we are. It\u2019s the reason we look out<\/a> and see the world we see.<\/p>\n

This common human struggle is one Love Pour Over Me<\/span>\u2019s main character, Raymond Clarke, faces. Like you may have, Raymond learned to believe lies about himself when he was a child. Many of the lies were passed down to him from his father (a man who also believed lies about himself) and people in his environment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not until he is grown, well into his adult years, that Raymond starts to examine the lies, turning them over, looking at their root and seeing the truth about them \u2013 that they are just that . . . lies, nothing more. Yet, he\u2019s made a habit out of believing lies about himself (perhaps to avoid seeing that people who loved<\/a> him but who didn\u2019t know better themselves had, unknowingly, told him lies even cloaking them in words of \u201cthis is good for you\u201d or \u201cthis is best\u201d).<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Raymond longs for the truth. It\u2019s this longing that keeps him moving forward, that connects him with Brenda.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my blog. To learn what happens to Raymond, Brenda and the other characters in <\/em>Love Pour Over Me<\/em><\/a>, hop over to Amazon.com, B&N.com, <\/em>Ebookit.com<\/em><\/a> and get your copy of Love Pour Over Me<\/span> today. And again I say \u2013 Thank You! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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