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    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
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  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
    • The Essence of Life
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • I Miss You God
    • Sometimes It's Good to Give UP
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
  • HOME
  • ALL CHAPTERS A-Z
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  • IN POLISH (Wiersze w j. polskim)
    • Idź Spać Mówi Głos Rozsądku
    • Komar
    • Odeszłaś Tak Szybko
    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Dla tych co mi okazali miłość
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
    • The Essence of Life
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • I Miss You God
    • Sometimes It's Good to Give UP
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
The Healing Poems

The Healing Poems

Poems about Self-Mastery

POEMS ABOUT SELF-MASTERY, SELF-DISCIPLINE
Self-mastery is not about achieving perfection but embracing the endless journey of growth. It is the art of transforming pain into wisdom, failure into resilience, and challenges into opportunities for self-discovery. This chapter delves into the lessons learned through struggle and triumph, the courage to face imperfections, and the humility to keep learning. 
HOW DID I LEARN beautifully captures the paradoxes of personal growth. Each line reveals how struggle, loss, and surrender become unexpected teachers, guiding the way to growth. The poem humbly acknowledges that the art of love remains an ongoing lesson, a path that deepens as we continue to unlearn judgment and embrace forgiveness. Through its candid honesty, this poem invites us to reflect on our own journeys and the wisdom found within life’s paradoxes. ​
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YOU CAN is an empowering poem that speaks to the power of choice and self-belief. Written in a moment of deep meditation, it inspires us to rise above limiting circumstances, trust our inner voice, and embrace the journey toward our true potential. This healing poem reminds us that, no matter the obstacles, we have the power within us to prevail.

"The height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...
And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."

                                   ― Leonardo da Vinci
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

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  • IN POLISH (Wiersze w j. polskim)
    • Idź Spać Mówi Głos Rozsądku
    • Komar
    • Odeszłaś Tak Szybko
    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Dla tych co mi okazali miłość
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
    • The Essence of Life
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • I Miss You God
    • Sometimes It's Good to Give UP
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures

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