that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone

chose it. I own everything about me; my body, my feelings,

my mouth, my voice, 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 know there are aspects

about myself 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 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 authentically me. If

later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt

turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting,

keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I

discarded. I can see, 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.