Be Yourself - Guided Meditation
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🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Every morning you’re faced with a choice, two postures you can take.
One choice you have is a posture of protection, creating different versions of yourself for different people, accommodating the perceived desires and perspectives of others around you.
The other choice you have is a posture of honesty, choosing to be your authentic self with every person, regardless of how they’ll treat you, confident and comfortable in the fact that God loves you just as you are no matter what anyone around you tells you.
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| 0:00.0 | Every morning you're faced with a choice, two postures that you can take. |
| 0:11.1 | One choice you have is a posture of protection, creating different versions of yourself for different people, |
| 0:19.0 | accommodating the perceived desires and posture of others around you. |
| 0:26.6 | The other choice that you have is a posture of honesty. |
| 0:32.0 | Choosing to be your authentic self. honesty. confident and comfortable in the fact that God loves you just as you are, no matter what anyone |
| 0:48.5 | around you tells you. The first posture, the posture of protection, buys into the world's system that |
| 0:58.4 | your value is what you bring to the table for others. It's a works-based mindset that asks, |
| 1:06.2 | what have you done for me lately? The second posture, the posture of honesty, buys into God's system, that you are inherently |
| 1:18.6 | valuable as his creation. |
| 1:24.0 | There is nothing you could do to make him love you more, and there's nothing that you could do |
| 1:30.6 | to make him love you less. |
| 1:34.0 | Today, I want to offer you a guide to choosing the second posture, |
| 1:40.0 | the posture of honesty. |
| 1:43.0 | Within just a few moments, |
| 1:45.0 | I want to help you reframe your perspective |
| 1:48.0 | and gain the confidence you need |
| 1:51.0 | to enter every conversation, situation, and challenge with the glory of who God made |
| 2:00.2 | you to be. Invest the next few moments, bringing your full focus to this time of reflection, |
| 2:10.8 | so that the rest of today is an opportunity taken instead of missed, to be fully known, |
| 2:17.0 | so that you might be fully loved. |
| 2:27.0 | As we begin, take a few deep breaths in and out. |
| 2:39.2 | As we begin, take a few deep breaths in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. And on your next exhalation, close your eyes. |
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