{"id":289,"date":"2012-01-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/98a078b9-04ae-4377-9a94-d56670ac4071"},"modified":"2015-04-10T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:12:58","slug":"loving-yourself-the-art-of-positive-self-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Loving Yourself, the Art of Positive Self-Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Once upon a time an old man and the Holy Child sat in silence by the riverside. \u00a0After a while, the old man heard the Child talking to himself, or so it seemed.\u00a0 As the old man leaned in closer to listen, these are the words he heard:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cYou are beautiful.\u00a0 I am so happy you were born.\u00a0 I love you.\u00a0 You are the perfect weaving of Sky and Earth, the keeper of holy fire and soothing water.\u00a0 I want you to be happy, so I will sing this day, sing your praises, give thanks for the life you give me.\u00a0 I am so grateful that you carry me with such grace and generosity.\u00a0 I love you.\u00a0 I appreciate you.\u00a0 Now let&#8217;s go play.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">And then he was quiet again. \u00a0Tears were streaming down his face.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Finally the old man spoke: \u201cThat was a beautiful prayer.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cThank you,\u201d said the Child.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cYou must love God very much.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI do, but those words were not spoken for God.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cThen who were you talking to?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cMyself,\u201d said the Child, reaching down and cupping his hand into the cool water.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cYourself?\u201d said the old man surprised. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cYes,\u201d laughed the Child, \u201cdon\u2019t you talk to yourself that way?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cNo,\u201d replied the old man, staring at the flowing river, \u201cnever.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cNow\u2019s a good time to start,\u201d said the Child, as he rose and took the old man by the hand, \u201cnever has ended.\u00a0 The time to love yourself has come.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"rg_hi\" class=\"rg_hi\" style=\"width: 171px; height: 152px;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUkviSWGjWJrrvEqbaJDQAI21bljbGzWn5jyZifk5sISreDIg5wdsTY5z0\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"152\" data-height=\"152\" data-width=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Joseph Anthony of the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Once upon a time an old man and the Holy Child sat in silence by the riverside. \u00a0After a while, the old man heard the Child talking to himself, or so it seemed.\u00a0 As the old man leaned in closer to listen, these are the words he heard: \u201cYou are beautiful.\u00a0 I am so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,2,36,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}