I am me.
In all the world there is no one
 else like me. There are persons
who have some parts like me,
but no one adds up exactly like me.
Therefore everything that comes out of
me is authentically mine because
I alone chose it.

I own everything about me…..my body,
including everything it does;
my mind,
 including all its thoughts and
 ideas; my eyes, including the images
of all they behold; my feelings, whatever
 they may be --- anger, joy, frustration,
 love, disappointment, excitement,
my mouth and all the words that come
out of it – polite, sweet or rough,
correct or incorrect; my voice
 loud or soft; and all my actions,
 whether they be to others
or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams,
my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
 Because I own all of me, I can become
intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing, I can love me and
be friendly with me in all my parts.
I can them make it possible for all of
 me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about me
that puzzle me, and other aspects
that I do not know.
But as long as I am friendly and
loving to myself,
I can courageously and
hopefully look for the solutions to
the puzzles and for ways to find
 out more about me.

However I look and sound,
 whatever I say and do, and whatever
 I think and feel at a given moment
in time is me.
This is authentic and represents where
I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked
and sounded, what I said and did,
and how I thought and felt,
some parts may turn out to be unfitting.
 I can discard that which is unfitting,
 and keep that which proved fitting.
And invent something new for that
which I discarded.

I can hear, feel, think, say and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be
close to others, to be productive
and to make sense and order out
of the world of people and things
outside of me.

I own me, and therefore
I can engineer me.
 I am me..
And I am OKAY……