Making Mistakes
I am human. I make mistakes. Sometimes when I make a mistake I catastrophize it and soon I feel myself to be a really bad person. Once this gets going, I worry that others will see me as bad. I fear that they see me in the way that I am seeing me. The self-condemnation is now complete, and I have successfully worked myself into a hole. My sense of failure keeps me going back and forth between shame and blame. I have trouble breaking free and letting go of my negative self-image. But mistakes are only meant for me to learn from. If I have hurt someone, I need to make amends and let go. If I have made an error, I need to correct it, at least in myself, and move on. If I can’t correct it, I can learn from it, enrich my spirit and release it.
I am allowed to make mistakes.
Daily Meditation from In The Rooms http://www.intherooms.com