#162 - Self-Connection vs Self-Focus

🪞 Self-Connection vs. Self-Focus

🔗 Self-Connection is:

• Rooted in awareness, honesty, and compassion 
• Listening to what’s going on in your heart, body, and mind
• Inviting God into your thoughts and emotions
• Asking questions like:
  ➤ “What am I feeling right now?”
  ➤ “What do I need?”
  ➤ “Is this thought aligned with truth?” 
• It helps you respond instead of react
• It creates space for growth, healing, and Spirit-led action 

✨ Self-connection says:
“I’m checking in with myself so I can show up in alignment with God’s truth.”

🪞 Self-Focus is:

• Rooted in comparison, control, or perfectionism 
• Obsessed with how you look, perform, or measure up
• Constantly evaluating yourself through the world’s standards
• Leads to self-judgment, anxiety, and striving
• Keeps you in your own head—and disconnected from God and others

😓 Self-focus says:
“I have to fix myself to be enough.”

💡 In short:

• Self-connection leads to surrender and transformation 
• Self-focus leads to shame and striving 

One is Spirit-led.
The other is self-led.

If you’re in a season of learning to take care of your health, emotions, or habits, self-connection will help you tune into what’s really going on—so God can meet you there.

We use the world’s standards to judge ourselves - disconnection

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