TO CHOOSE OR NOT TO CHOOSE

To Choose or Not to Choose

You can't force yourself to choose before you are ready.
If you do, you will probably have regrets.

Be patient with yourself and learn to accept
all of the voices within your psyche.

You don't have to act on any of these voices.
Just listen to them and see what they need to say to you.

Accept your ambivalence and it will move when it is ready.
Guidance and direction will come when it's time.

From Everyday Wisdom by Paul Ferrini
www.paulferrini.com

AFFIRMATIONS AS DENIAL OF FEELINGS

Affirmations as Denial of Feelings

Jesus said “Resist not Evil.”
If he were using today’s lingo,
he might say something like
“what you resist, persists.”

If you are angry at someone
and you try to replace your angry thoughts
with loving thoughts,
one of two things will happen.

Either you will be successful
at repressing the anger (a form of denial)
so that it continues to exist in your psyche
even though you pretend that it isn’t there.
Or you won’t be successful.
Actually, here it’s advantageous not to succeed,
because then you will have to deal with the anger,
acknowledge it, find out what triggered it.


From Everyday Wisdom by Paul Ferrini
www.paulferrini.com