Article October 11, 1999 ISSUE

STAND UP FOR YOURSELF

Alma E. Robbins

For a long period in my life, I experienced acute fear when conversing with other people. I thought of myself as unworthy and flawed. I felt sure others would see, or had already seen, how shallow and limited I was. My discomfort would result in physical tension. My neck and shoulders would become taut and painful. As soon as possible, I would escape from encounters with people, feeling defeated and depressed.

I had not yet discerned who I really was as God's child, although I knew it intellectually. As a matter of fact, though I had been a student of Christian Science all my life, I had always felt powerful resistance even to stating that I could be God's idea. I never felt this could be true. But as I grew spiritually and saw through the beliefs mesmerizing me, my connection to God became clearer to me. Gradually and joyfully I saw the prison of my own limiting beliefs; that is, I saw finally that they were self-imposed limitations. I saw that beliefs are assumptions and convictions, insistent and aggressive, but they are not facts.

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