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Worth-Conscious Theory & Ribbon of Worth
Suicide prevention
suicidal thoughts
You might feel overwhelmed, but it's important to remember that your thoughts might be trying to help you manage an unfair situation. Sometimes, thoughts about life's challenges can shift to thoughts about giving up. This can happen gradually and not be obvious at first. When your thoughts shift towards thoughts about not wanting to keep living through difficulties avoid letting the feeling of powerlessness take over.
casual drift
It's easy to casually drift into thinking that because your life is hard, it is not worth it. This thinking can eventually become self-worth-denying negative self-talk. You might feel that life is too hard to handle and start to believe that escaping the pain is the only solution. Remember that death is the ultimate disempowerment, and there are other ways for you to get your power back and find relief.
thinking shift
In 2020, 12 million people reported having suicidal ideation—they had thoughts about escaping a difficult or unhappy situation by not living through it. Without meaning to, many of these people allowed a death-wish mentality to begin forming. That is the idea that death solves problems that it can't solve. Death doesn't make us feel worthy. Whoever has made you feel unworthy may not have had their self-worth affirmed - you can get to know how good unconditional worth feels because it is something we can learn.
Worth-Consciousness
A thought that affirms self-worth is a detour away from death-wish thoughts. We know we won't stop people from thinking that life is hard, unfair, or seemingly impossible. Sometimes, the journey is a rough road. We can help people shift back into life with meaningful, worth-affirming thinking. Choices are about options. You may not have had the option of choosing to live true to yourself and worthy, and we want to help.
- It's okay to acknowledge that life is challenging and unfair.
- Focusing on small, meaningful actions that affirm your worth is helpful.
- Seek the support of friends or professionals who honor your truth and worth.
- Learn more about your self-worth as a birthright. (Worth-Conscious Theory)
disclaimer
The information provided on RibbonofWorth.com should not be considered a substitute for the advice of a medical professional or other healthcare professional specializing in mental health diagnosis and treatment. If you're feeling suicidal, reach out for help immediately. Call the suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1.800.273.8255
worth-affirming
making worth-conscious choices
Having a worth-conscious mindset and being aware of that mindset's existence, possibilities, and sheer force can be the ultimate life energy booster! Because once we understand that we can make worth-affirming choices, we learn of the uniqueness and partly invisible nature of these personal pursuits. We can better understand the nature of the journey we and others are on.
We can see that our path is similar to how others must travel, easy or difficult. We can see them as we see ourselves in a new way, with empathy and compassion, because we know that none of us know everything about affirming worth. As bright as we can be, and there is no expert better than ourselves, each of us is a lifelong apprentice at best. The first thing we can do is wish for better. That means thinking thoughts that empower worth-affirming actions.
One way to think about a worth-conscious choice is that it creates the desire to be open and connect to the most personally inspiring and motivating aspiration for your own life. Stepping through that open door involves adding choices to your daily routine that affirm self-worth. Choices that are not based in disempowering conditions.
Think of a neurosurgeon and (assuming you're not one) try to imagine what it's like to be one, and that same neurosurgeon trying to think what it's like NOT to be one. Both of you have NO idea, really, how it feels to be that other being, on that other journey, in that different experience. Ther are words and language that can be used to try to explain it. But language, though it can sometimes access and invoke experience, can't duplicate it and install it in another human being without reworking and reconstructing our own emotional and psychological lenses to transform it into OUR rendition of the felt experience.
And yet, realizing the impossibility of one hundred percent access to the experience of others can finally give you a break from a false pursuit liberating you to be free to honor self-expression. A worth-affirming choice created, acted on, and visibly held in shared awareness can be celebrated and enjoyed for its own sake.
We're an infinite field of worth-affirming choices so unique - sometimes alone - yet we're all together, walking with each other in many shared spaces. The energy to live is all around and in us. It's in that shared energy where all worth-conscious ideas can be found and adopted from people who honor your truth and worth. One choice is to always keep looking for those people.
A worth-conscious choice is a quest for connection to something beyond our immediate reach when we are stuck in systems that feel confining. It can also be a returning to contentment within ourselves. The safety and love and comfort we seek are in knowing we're all part of a worthy story, with chapters of our own making - our design - our own felt experience. Each worth-affirming thought becomes a set of choices that are the most authentic expression of you being you, the one and ONLY you that has ever been or will be. It's significant and yours.
We can honor the many different expressions of self-worth-based choices all around us - to borrow some energy or gain some wisdom from others' stories that tell us how to keep making the choices that give our lives personally powerful meaning.
Do you know what your self-worth-sustaining story is? You can write a philosophy of life that is worth conscious, and a friend or therapist can help. See the bottom of the Counseling Guide to find a therapist near you.
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