THE TREE OF SELF: Three Essentials to Self Development

Within the Tree of Self, there are three essentials that can help improve and sustain the branches of self, in accordance to Self belonging. These three essential are: Mental Exercise, Emotional Exercise, and Physical Exercise. The three exercises of the self can help in improving your whole attitude about life during tenuous times and during salacious moments in your life.

It is imperative that your Mental attitude towards life is in harmony with what you believe in, what you are experiencing and with what you want to achieve. The Mental Exercise of self starts with a well grounded educational base (meaning what you read, see and hear), that an individual acquires from their family environment, combined with colorful social interactions or relations with other fellow human-beings. There is an axiom that states: “It’s all in the mind” – your mental attitude determines your latitude and it initializes with a good upbringing or learning to overcome restraining obstacles in your path to attaining sustaining growth.

Growing up in an environment that offers a right mental attitude to life, guards an individual to attain mental strength, adjoined to all your relationships with day to day conversations that help to champion your emotional strength. After all, assorted conversations lead to clarity of the self. Emotional strength is gained through Emotional Exercise. How your parents treated or treat you, how your siblings or relatives treat you, how you treat yourself, how you treat your friends and how you treat your lover; is linked to your Emotional Exercise to life. Controlling your emotions within all your conversations is an essential trait to life and to your mental well-being. Failure to do so, can lead an individual to commit themselves to unwanted violent tendencies that will lead to self annihilation.

Going out for a walk, a jog, weight lifting, or playing any type of sports is Physical Exercise and builds your physical strength, which builds your life’s longevity. Why is Physical Exercise an essential? When an individual exercises, a positive attitude towards life increases and gives mental refreshment and emotional relief, that helps to reduce stress (which is why romantic moments with your partner are also an integral part to improving your relationship, as they combine all three essentials of self). Physical Exercise helps towards self-love; it is when you are in love with your ‘temple’ or body that you learn to love others without hindering their existence or compromising your own path to realizing transcending-love. Physical Exercise is a form of Acting-love.

Love is action – how you are treated, how you treat your family or your lover in a relationship will determine the latitude and longevity of your love; acting love is also an emotional and mental triptych to all your friendships and all your acquaintances – showing hate gives back hate, showing love gives back love. Acting love comes in different forms; one being self-love – the ability to realize that you cannot love another unless you love yourself; two, exuding that love in everything you do; three, talk the talk and walk the talk – act on your promises; four, ability to know when you have faulted and acknowledge that you have; five, good communication – knowing where you stand with your life and where your partner stands in your life is critical.

The branches to the tree of self are the three essential; Mental Exercise, Emotional Exercise, and Physical Exercise – that will build resonance to acting love, transcending-love and to self-belief. These three essential can assist to forming a well balanced self and maintain a resilient love that is never shaken nor destroyed by our brief earthly matters, however a makes an individual a shining beacon, the necessary light in the world.

WORD TO THE NEW THREE ESSENTIALS TO SELF REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala