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Since we are responsible for everything that happens to us, on some level we have made a decision , we are therefore able to aim for what we consciously want. On the way we will turn up all the beliefs that, perhaps unconsciously, have been directing our experience so far. We often let these slip in the way we speak, the phrases and generalisations that we use; “I always forget things”, “I never get it right”, “I’m stupid” .... “Life’s not fair,” “Men are all the same”, etc. I have become wary of using the words ‘always’ and ‘never’ as I have found that soon afterwards follows the exception to the rule. We also give away our dissatisfaction with life, which you may remember is of our own creation - what we expect to see, by complaining about, for instance, the weather: “how awful the rain is” is the one which stays with me. So many people complain, and yet we are so blessed to live in a climate in Britain where our food grows so successfully, that we have taken it for granted. I accept that there are some people who don’t have a warm dry home to go back to, but those are not the folks I mean here. We can change our point of view and enjoy things we used not to like, I was going to say tolerate then but into my mind popped the example of me a few years ago plucking up the courage to face living on my own, I was steeling myself for a time of loneliness and responsibility that I would find a burden; I had no idea that I would enjoy it. The challenges that we dread most can sometimes not be as hard as we picture them.
This all means that there are no accidents and no random coincidences - no escape from responsibility, but at the same time we are in charge and in control of how much we choose to take on. | ||
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CATHERINE HOLLAND Tel: 0701 7415310 Email: catherine@catherineholland.co.uk | |
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