Fourteen

Positive Suggestions
for Ego Strength
"People tend to become more of the behaviours you identify, so identify positive qualities and
strengths rather than negative qualities and failings. To avoid imposing your values upon the
people, ask them what qualities they possess or see in others, that help them or that they think
are important."
 Fourteen Positive Suggestions for Ego Strength
by Daniel Keeran, MSW, President, College of Mental Health Counselling, Victoria, Canada
Counsellor Training As A Therapeutic Approach

Different personalities may require different approaches. The self-absorbed person may need constructive feedback while the
one with low self-esteem may benefit from positive suggestions. People tend to become more of a positive quality and the sense of
self-worth is strengthened, when you sincerely acknowledge the positive quality. The encourager looks for positive qualities
already existing in the person, that can be nurtured and strengthened. Giving an example as proof of a quality, increases the
therapeutic effect.
The intentional use of positive statements for a predictable benefit, can accurately be termed Positive Suggestion Therapy,
and the reader can add more examples to those listed here based upon values identified in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth,
his apostles and prophets, and resulting from prayers for wisdom.
1. You are a kind and considerate person, often thinking of others while supporting yourself in the process.

2. You are very loyal and responsible. If you commit to a task, you can be trusted to fulfill it.

3. You are honest and transparent. For you, personal integrity is a greater treasure than immense material
wealth.

4. You think of the needs of others, and you look for ways to help people thrive.

5. You speak up for yourself and for people who cannot speak for themselves.

6. You possess a high level of self-awareness, and you can be very positive, supportive, and encouraging of other
people as well.

7. Your knowledge and intelligence are assets that you use for the good of others and yourself.

8. Your creative ability is obvious from your thinking patterns requiring many aspects to be organized.

9. Your compassion is apparent from the way you care for others.

10. Your insight and self-awareness help you understand your patterns in life and how they work for
you and against you, and how you can heal and find solutions, and how to create your own
positive suggestions.

11. You are making important contributions to the improvement of your own life and of the
well-being of others.

12. What are some examples of strengths or positive things about you that people sometimes, or
perhaps often, overlook?

13. Your interest in spiritual things gives depth, inner peace, meaning, hope, and health to your life and the
people whose lives you touch.

14. What qualities do you see in yourself and others that you think are important or helpful?