Choose your Life

This blog is about celebrating the positive effects each of us can have in our own lives, the lives of others, and this world we call our home. We are all human beings, regardless of our circumstances. Religion doesn’t matter, race doesn’t matter, culture doesn’t matter, sexual orientation doesn’t matter... we’re ALL human beings. Celebrate your humanity and the humanity of all your brothers and sisters,

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Choices

Choices:  We cannot choose the stuff that life throws at us.  Some will be good, some neutral, some painful; we can't choose.  What we CAN choose is how we respond.  Viktor Fankl wrote "Between stimulus and response is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Three words can be an invaluable cue for you.  Write them on an Post-it note and stick it on your bathroom mirror, or your fridge; anywhere that you will see it: "Today, I choose".  Choosing is empowering.  No one can ever remove all your choices and your ability to choose one or another.  Even with constraints, such as lack of financial independence, or serious illness, or possibly, incarceration, you still have choices.

How will your frame this particular event in your life's journey?  Is it a failure, or an opportunity to learn?  There is always an opportunity to learn and grow.  Choose to do so!

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Love is a choice.  We choose to love, minute by minute, day by day, year by year.  When we stop choosing, love dies.

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I believe that before anything else I’m a human being — just as much as you are… or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you…and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can’t be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what’s in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

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I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one’s potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy

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I have many clients living with anxiety; these are just the things I tell them.  Anxiety is fear.  Breathe and try to understand the fear.  Don’t fight the fear; accept it.  Fighting it will only strengthen it.

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20 Self Love Affirmations

Originally posted by feministism

1. “I am beautiful.”

2. “I love and approve of myself.”

3. “I choose to think thoughts that enhance my life greatly.”

4. “I am worthy.”

5. “I accept myself exactly as I am.”

6. “Forgiveness is the door out of my past.”

7. “When I forgive myself, it is easier for me to forgive others.”

8. “I accept that I cannot change anyone but myself.”

9. “My life is constantly improving.”

10. “I understand that in order to grow, change is needed.”

11. “I flow easily with life.”

12. “I am worthy of forgiveness.”

13. “All experiences are opportunities to grow.”

14. “I welcome positive change with ease.”

15. “I am deeply grateful for all of the wonderful people and things in my life.”

16. “I radiate good health.”

17. “I only give my body goodness.”

18. “I trust my intuition.”

19. “I lovingly think in a positive way.”

20. “I am at peace with myself.”

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Take hold of your life and let it go.

As Arthur Miller wrote in “After the Fall”, we need to take our lives in our own arms. But sometimes, our past makes that life too full of thorns to take hold of. Forgive yourself! I’m not saying that we should forget the past, but forgive our mistakes, whether they were deliberate or unintentional.

There’s a Buddhist saying, “lack of forgiveness is the poison we drink hoping someone else will die.”  Lack of forgiveness is toxic. It’s not so easy to see the applicability of the proverb when self-forgiveness is the issue, but step outside yourself for a moment: if someone you cared about came to you and asked forgiveness for what you’re holding against yourself, would you forgive them?

Holding onto our negative past only prevents us from growing and becoming in the present and the future. The best way to overcome past mistakes is to let them go and do better in the future.

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Why is this so hard for some of us to understand?