{"id":1481,"date":"2009-10-13T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2009-10-13T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:33:36","slug":"a-video-to-help-you-accept-and-be-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/a-video-to-help-you-accept-and-be-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"A Video To Help You Accept and BE Yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2666\u00a0 \u2666\u00a0 \u2666<\/p>\n<p>It can be a crazy world out there at times \u2014 a world driven by crowd-thinking, political correctness,\u00a0 and philosophical nonsense that is bombarding you to &#8220;fit in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not conservative religious groups trying to regulate and control morality, it&#8217;s human rights activists going overboard to the point of trumping common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Because of time-worn<strong> social norms<\/strong>, meddling <strong>governmental regulations<\/strong>, <strong>protectionist mindsets<\/strong> and <strong>victim-driven thinking<\/strong>, it&#8217;s NOT easy to fight the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">peer pressure<\/span> to fit into a <em>mold<\/em> that isn&#8217;t YOU.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Is the world missing the real you because you&#8217;ve been conditioned to play it safe?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not something we need to expand on any more than just asking that question.<\/p>\n<p>Because, here&#8217;s something you can do to find out:<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN to the song, from <em>3 Doors Down<\/em>, via the video below. Close your eyes (you really don&#8217;t need to watch the Shrek clips, as it&#8217;s not the images that really matter). Feel the energy of the words. And, when listening to the song, in a quiet place, just ask yourself:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Is it okay that I fight to &#8216;be myself&#8217;, even if others don&#8217;t approve?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only you can really know for sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k7ZV7FDuTJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k7ZV7FDuTJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2666\u00a0 \u2666\u00a0 \u2666<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">For another version\u00a0\u2014 the official <em>Let Me Be Myself<\/em> Music video \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PM6J6Ksz6QU\" target=\"_blank\">watch at YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffff99;\">Let us know what you think about today&#8217;s post<\/span> or, <em>at least, <\/em> how<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve personally conquered being yourself&#8230;. by <strong>commenting below<\/strong>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2666\u00a0 \u2666\u00a0 \u2666 It can be a crazy world out there at times \u2014 a world driven by crowd-thinking, political correctness,\u00a0 and philosophical nonsense that is bombarding you to &#8220;fit in.&#8221; If it&#8217;s not conservative religious groups trying to regulate and control morality, it&#8217;s human rights activists going overboard to the point of trumping common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-freedom-emotional-mastery","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}