“Remove the expression ‘have to’ from your vocabulary and your thinking, because it is going to release a lot of self-imposed pressure on you. You create tremendous pressure by saying” ‘I have to get up.’ ‘I have to do this.’ ‘I have to, I have to.’ Instead, begin by saying ‘I choose to…’ It puts a whole different perspective on your life. Everything you do is a choice. It may not seem so, but it is.” – Louise L. Hay from Heart Thoughts, via the ever awesome Mystic Mama blog. We are about to go into the Yosemite forest, picking up the vibrations and sending them back. Above is a picture of my amazing husband. Love from Napa, volcanic ash and vines…
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I love this concept. There certainly is a huge difference in the sense from I “HAVE” to and I “CHOOSE” to. Have to makes us submissive and powerless. CHOOSE to empowers us! Something that I will be mindful of when dealing with the day to day efforts of working on FastLaneMag.Com
I’ve been so stressed thinking about all I HAVE to do but am not doing. In reality I simply CHOOSE to or not to. I need to start CHOOSING to though. HA
Hi DJ, yes! We always choose whether to do something or not. No one else is driving the car but you. I found the most powerful practice is to consciously choose what you resist the most; to see how choosing it creates so much room in your life. It also brings up the feeling that perhaps we chose certain people, habits, challenges and obstacles before we came into this lifetime so that we could grow. At one stage I declared to my husband that ‘I choose procrastination.’ It was so powerful! For whatever reason, that statement allowed me to see that I needed to ‘resist’ something for a time in order to receive something else coming in. Great stuff. Thanks for your comment!