-Johnny Rodriguez
Confronting criminal thinking takes an honest person to be real with themselves. Once you understand how to manage denial to get to the core of where it all began, then can you potentially help yourself.
Some individuals do not want anyone to know about their personal issues and it’s perfectly normal and okay. It’s so important that you first protect yourself by learning how to healthily think out what you normalized.
Talk to yourself what you normalized, and write out to yourself what you normalized while growing up even though you do not want to have family members seen as enablers where you picked up on their patterns of behavior, talk, alcohol and drug use, violence, domestic violence, gangs, etc. Put it in God’s hands depending upon a belief system and/or influential person in your young vulnerable life.
Once you realize how important it is not to become a pathological liar it’s to help yourself and to protect others too. Then will you help the inner healing process in light of not being perfect and falling short until you become steadfast or faithful in your personal inner healing, change and recovery from waywardness and delinquency; making an informed choice and decision.
Understanding that part of a reluctance to change is because you’re too caught up or addicted to waywardness or delinquency is important to recognize. In my personal gang lifestyle break away there was something about myself I did not want to let go of quite so quickly because I thought that is who I was, am or supposed to be. That was only because I had wrong thinking skills of being a manipulator playing myself and those were the tell-tale sign of waywardness and delinquency, especially criminal thinking.
Impulsiveness, acting upon emotions and feelings, is the norm for individuals who did not receive beginning insight on how to manage emotions and feelings. Emotions are our daily and nightly pushes and pulls into states of mind and never learning how to equate emotions to learn how to manage emotions and feelings is where we were failed to develop critical thinking skills to not base choices and decisions on emotions and feelings.
Sane judgement is not automatically lived out. As we mature in life we are taught to understand right from wrong to make a choice and decision to be and become good individuals with inner substance at a free will level. I learned that my mind and body are a relationship. I need to cultivate myself to the best of my conscious ability to survive as best as I can, especially, at a self-regulating level where I consciously manage my thinking, communication and behavior.
I learned that just because I had a negative impulse to act upon does not mean I have to act upon it, especially by being honest with myself. At times, I knew that if I act upon it, acted upon a negative thought I would suffer consequences I could not afford.
So I did not act upon negative thoughts, proving our ability to think before we act. That is the core on confronting waywardness and delinquent thinking to develop healthy thinking skills, communication skills, and behavior skills.
Beyond a reason of a doubt thinking before we act is vital to not commit impulsive (negative acts/actions) acts/actions and to become self-regulating to manage our thinking, talking, and behavior to be healthy. We cannot recuperate the past but we can prevent the past from causing us to live a cycle of being wayward or delinquent to inertly heal, change, and manage recovery from criminal thinking.
Some individuals make the mistake of alleging that my inner healing or change is in God’s hands and timing and do not step out in faith to get the work done. It’s about personal self-motivation and having the insight to break inner ground to become self-regulating to arrest negative acts or actions. Do not live in hope but live in faith and begin the inner work to make informed choices and decisions.
IPRAY writers are humbly proud of you at risk people who would consider the insight we provide to make sound strides because it’s not automatic. You have to nurture and build your brain’s inner muscle(s) to build inner strength.
Life is a struggle but when you have insight to apply to help you live a meaningful life where your true identity is able to manifest, making all the necessary right healthy choices and decisions. It comes from your heart and visions of short and long term goals to freely live.