Reinventing Yourself

(Effecting Change in your life)

As I was looking at some sale items in a mall, I saw this slogan in a woman’s cloth handbag: “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” This had led me to some thinking that indeed the handbag’s slogan must me right. I tried to go to some shops and I bumped into a Japan-made soap called “sabai-arom.” According to the store, the term is Thai and it means “Simple Happiness.” The company believes that simple happiness is being connected to and being in tuned with nature.

So what now has the bag slogan have to do with simple happiness? What does it have to do with wellness and health? Reinventing yourself is in many ways the same as creating or recreating yourself. Reinventing yourself is being in tuned with nature and your surroundings. Being in tuned with nature amounts to simple happiness.

How do you reinvent yourself? One way of reinventing yourself is learning to be aware. It is about knowing yourself objectively. Awareness is being fully conscious of what you are and what your missions in life are. It is about being mindful of what’s going on in your life.

How is reinvention of yourself attained by you? Reinventing yourself is like turning on a light bulb. This light bulb illuminates your unconscious mind and you begin to be fully aware and sensitive of your surroundings. This is the first step to facilitating any change you wish to make in yourself. Now is the time to execute change in your life.

Steps in executing any change in your life

From the book with the title “If Life is a Game, These are the Rules” the author Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. had listed down the following steps to effect change in life:

1. Awareness. It is being aware of the patterns in life that need to be learned, relearned, or mastered.

2. Acknowledgment. Accepting or admitting that you have to release the pattern(s).

3. Choice. This is an active selection of aligning yourself to your own true path.

4. Strategy. Create a realistic plan in effecting change.

5. Commitment. Stick to your decision to change.

6. Celebration. Reward yourself for succeeding in reinventing yourself.

Practical uses of self-reinvention

Self-reinvention or reinventing yourself can have practical applicability in changing behaviors. It can be used in smoking and alcohol cessation. It can be used in dieting. It can be effective in anger management.