SELF_CONCEPT
Revaluing Self (Giant vs. Grasshopper)
To overcome overwhelming problems ('giants'), one must revalue their self-perception, shifting from feeling like a 'grasshopper' (powerless) to feeling like…
Step by step
- Identify the 'giants' (problems) in your life that make you feel like a 'grasshopper'.
- Recognize that your self-perception is the cause of their perceived power.
- Consciously revalue yourself: begin to feel yourself to be a 'giant', a center of power.
- Persist in this new self-concept until the 'giants' in your world are dwarfed and become 'grasshoppers'.
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At Your Command
To overcome overwhelming problems ('giants'), one must revalue their self-perception, shifting from feeling like a 'grasshopper' (powerless) to feeling like a 'giant' (a center of power). This inner shift will diminish the perceived power of the problems.
In the Book of Numbers you will read, “In that day there were giants in the land; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And we were in their sight as grasshoppers.” This does not mean a time in the dim past when man had the stature of giants. Today is the day, the eternal now when conditions round about you have attained the appearance of giants (such as unemployed, the armies of your enemy, your problems and all things that seem to threaten you) those are the giant that make you feel yourself to be a grasshopper. But, you are told, you were first, in your own sight a grasshopper and because of this you were to the giants – a grasshopper. In other words, you can only be to others what you are first to yourself. Therefore, to revalue yourself and begin to feel yourself to be the giant, a center of power, is to dwarf these former giants and make of them grasshoppers.
This technique highlights that external challenges are reflections of one's self-concept. Changing the internal self-valuation directly impacts the external reality.