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Forgiveness … give it to yourself
Forgiveness is really just unconditional acceptance. Without it, there is no freedom to grow. And … YOU can free yourself!… More
Wake up to the truth … sooner, rather than later
How is it that people “wake up” after 12 years of marriage (or 3 years of dating) and realize that if they ever had anything, it’s gone?
People do grow apart. But there’s more to it than that. Sometimes they never really “had anything,” at least not anything close to what they had hoped for.
We can and do “wake up.” From what, though? How could we have been so wrong–and how can we avoid being so wrong again?
Psychologists use the term “cognitive dissonance” to explain the discomfort we feel when we have conflicting thoughts, or conflicting thoughts and behaviors. We are so motivated to avoid that discomfort that we filter incoming data. We use what reinforces an established belief and conveniently ignore the rest. And when a behavior, one we can’t or refuse to change, conflicts with a belief, we justify that behavior by manipulating our thoughts.
In other words, cognitive dissonance explains how we can be amazingly close-minded and opinionated, and how we can see the proverbial mote in another’s eye and miss the beam in our own. And, stay with me here, it also explains waking up.
One man described his first encounter with his wife this way: “She was blonde and striking, and I just knew she was the one to marry.”… More
God’s part includes giving you the ability to do yours …
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You are …
Why didn’t somebody tell us how amazing we were–before life kicked us in the pants, and we learned to be on guard?
Somebody probably did. But, chances are, somebody also told us that we were too little, too big, too loud, too shy, too something. And that’s the part we believed.
We have to hear something positive five times in order to compensate for one negative! So, I just want to tell you about a billion times today that I think you’re absolutely amazing in about a million different ways.… More
Just do what you want …
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