Your Self-Perception Changes Everything !

Moidheen Drew
4 min readNov 2, 2023

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What you think and feel about yourself shapes your life; it defines your life. Have you ever thought about this? What is the nature of the thoughts you have about yourself?

If you think and negatively feel about yourself, if that’s what you hold within, what you attract into your life is a reflection of these thoughts and feelings.

You will attract situations, people, and experiences that worry you, hold you back, and negatively impact you.

That will keep on making you think and feel bad about yourself.

You may ask, “Why does all this happen to me? Why does everyone dislike me?

This becomes a negative spiral.

If you keep thinking and feeling the same way, you keep on attracting things to validate and reflect that, and the loop continues.

This is a universal law: as within, so without. So, it’s time to break the cycle, break the pattern, and create a shift from the inside.

Become really aware of how you speak to yourself.

What kind of thoughts are you holding against yourself?

How do you see yourself? Don’t consider how others see you, talk about you, treat you, or make you feel. Just forget about everyone else just for a moment, think there is no one else; it is just you and you alone.

See only you and look at how you treat yourself and make yourself feel.

Do you have any grudges towards yourself that you hold on to for anything related to the past, for any past mistakes? or any regrets or guilt?

Do you often harshly criticize and judge yourself?

If you do this to yourself and instil this energy within you, the same energy will radiate outside.

People will mirror and reflect this energy, and they will behave in an almost similar manner to yourself.

That’s how others will treat you because others treat you the way you treat yourself.

If you realize your inherent value and see yourself as valuable, others will also start to see the value within you. You can’t help it. You radiate that kind of energy of a valuable person. Because that’s how you feel within.

If you don’t see yourself as valuable, there is a small chance others will see that value.

If you don’t see yourself as lovable, others will also agree.

If you love yourself, others will see you as a lovable person.

Don’t seek outward validation, value, or love. It all starts with you, within you.

How you see, feel, and treat yourself, all starts with you. So, it’s important; it is a language of love that you do all of that.

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If no one else sees the value in yourself, no one else understands you or realizes your beauty, goodness, and speciality, do you see those in yourself?

Even if others don’t, do you love yourself? Do you accept yourself just the way you are?

With love and positive thoughts about yourself, you demonstrate to others that you are a valuable and lovable person and that you deserve respect. You start to radiate a different kind of energy.

People view something different, something positive, something attractive about you.

This change, the shift in your thoughts and feelings about yourself, is sensed by others. Like mirrors, they reflect the energy to you with respect, value, consideration, and love.

But this time, you wouldn’t necessarily need those. You appreciate it, you will be grateful and feel good to receive that energy from others, but you don’t have that “need” to get that from others. Because, comparing with the old you, now it will not affect what others see or feel about you.

It will not be that important for you.

What’s more important to you is your attitude toward yourself. And that changes everything.

You give off a different kind of confidence. You will notice your life starts to improve in multiple dimensions. You attract more positive experiences to yourself, and that makes you feel good inside.

And all of that is because of your shift inside, your inner attitude, that shift produces a tangible effect in the outer world.

Often, to make these kinds of shifts will not always be easy. It requires tremendous awareness about yourself. You may have to go through many healings and inner works.

You may have to embrace many emotions and insecurities within you.

Many times, you may feel you don’t deserve anything good. Other times you may feel weak.

But your effort to change, embrace and ultimately heal all those parts is a language of love. It’s love itself. And everything can be healed and transformed by love.

And you are worthy of that love. It always has been❤.

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Moidheen Drew

Inside every person lies a latent Power, unmanifested, full of potential. I aim to be a guide and a catalyst, to ignite this dormant energy within all of us.