A ‘YOUTH’ WHOSE BEHAVIOUR IS DEVIANT, is troublesome and troubled. If you are a troubled YOUTH, you can make LIFE miserable for yourself and others around you. It is therefore, important that you learn coping mechanisms to become a self-controlled individual. As a YOUTH, you should learn effective ways of dealing with frustrations by using problem-solving techniques.

Creative people display great aggressiveness in their thinking, as they try out many options and search for possible solutions. By trying to rid ourselves of any kind of aggressive impulse, we actually thwart our own creative energies.

The problem has never been that we humans are assertive and aggressive. That would be to make a problem of our own nature. The positive and negative aspects of this energy are but two sides of the same coin. To try to tamp down the negative, only dulls the positive. The real problem is that we do not know how to harness this energy in an adult, productive, and prosocial manner. This energy needs to be embraced as totally human and potentially positive. What we must do is tame and train it for our own purposes.

SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING:

1. BEING born with a powerful energy is what makes us distinctly human. We can call it willpower, assertiveness, or even aggression, but it is mixed with our intelligence and cleverness.
2. ESSENTIALLY, it was revealed to us in its purest state in childhood. This energy made us adventurous, not only physically but mentally, wanting to explore ideas and soak up knowledge.
3. AS we get older and we encounter mounting frustrations, resistance from others, and feelings of impatience for power, some among us may become chronically aggressive.
4. REALLY positive aggression makes us actively search for friends with whom we can explore together. It makes us relentless when it comes to solving problems or getting what we want.
5. IT makes us open to the world and to new experiences. Unfortunately, if we feel frustrated and helpless for long enough periods of time, this same energy can make us unusually combative.
6. NOW, instead of being chronically aggressive, or repressed, we can make this energy focused and rational. When it is concentrated and sustained, it has so much more force behind it.
7. GUIDING ourselves to diligently follow such a noble and pragmatic path, we can recover some of that pure spirit we had as children, feeling bolder, more integrated, and more authentic.

Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Being a virtuous individual so as to advance and contribute to social progress.

1. FOR you will never mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause, by breaking windows, or breaking laws.
   Core Choice #15: VICE can never turn into VIRTUE whether it is undetected, prosperous or lucky.
   Sure Score #15: Secretly meditating crime makes you as guilty as if you had committed the offense.
2. OBSERVABLE good should be your content; when vice prevails, and bears sway, honour is trampled.
   Solid Stance #15: Come what may, be a faithful friend of virtue and fortune will accrue unto you.
   Catalysing Consideration #15: People’s evil manners live in brass: their virtues are written in gold.
3. REAL good heart will lead to a bonny face; bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
   Mighty Mission #15: Vice is waste of LIFE; and virtue, though in rags, will keep you warm.
   Vivid Vision #15: A virtuous person in one’s sound mind, is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
4. MOST of the vices of which a society is ashamed constitute its history; the same is true of individuals.
   Gaining Ground #15: All maladjustments are due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
   Capturing Clouds #15: Obscenity is such a TINY kingdom, that a single tour covers it completely.
5. UNLEASH doing lovely things; and so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, one grand sweet song.
   Lofty Leap #15: If you share your friend’s crime, you make it your own.
   Merry Momentum #15: Be good in action; not dream or pretend about it.
6. LOFTILY, continual dropping of water has a tendency to wear away the hardest and most flinty substance.
   Holy Hearken #15: Abide in good works and deeds, and shine your example forth as the sun at noon day.
   Divine Distinction #15: You will melt their callous hearts, and render spineless the arm of sore oppression.
7. A societal reaction might pressurise an individual into becoming an outcast, delinquent, criminal or rebel.
   Prudent Planting #15: You can never absolve responsibility by blaming the society.
   Hoped Harvest #15: Heaven takes care that no person secures happiness by crime.

#15. To the extent I aspire to curtail my TROUBLESOME behaviour,
In which mannner should I tread the path of SELF-RESPECT?

Accept that you are a desirable package rather than any one individual item.
Do not let any one particular shortcoming negate that you are a complex package.
See the desirable package that you are by taking a picture of yourself with a big smile.
Every time you look at your smile think of the positive characteristics that define you.
Believe in your own worth, making yourself a priority some of the time, if not all time.
Boldly ask for what you really want, or maneuver into a position to make it happen.
Be prepared to tolerate disappointing others for the sake of recognising your value.

#15. I, ___________________________, deciding to tread on the path of SELF-RESPECT, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, I will never let my self-respect to go into hibernation with the bears or fall by the wayside like the leaves on the trees. I will never let one more moment slip away, but put the spring back into my step without waiting for the thaw. I believe that, my self-respect will equip me to face the tough and unpleasant times and allow for joy and pleasure when living is easy. I will make a list of all my assets including skills, experiences, physical and social resources, talents, and anything else that makes me feel good about myself. I will add to the list the compliments that others have given me as well. I will remind myself of all my assets, which is a sure confidence booster.

In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, I will think back to most recent experience where I felt I fell short, made a mistake, or messed-up and force myself to name five things that went right. I have understood that, I am not defined by any one thing, but by the accumulation of my experiences. I will look in a full size mirror and pick five things that I am looking at that make me feel good. I will pick five things I see on the outside such as my physical attributes: eyes, lips, hair, nails, legs, feet, toes, or smile. I will also pick things related to my style such as: my hairdo, clothing, stance, make-up, or shoes. In addition, I will pick items that come from the inside such as: my sparkle, spirit, energy, compassion, or kindness. If I have trouble, I will ask someone that matters to me to name five things I have to feel good about myself. I will try this every day for a week.