Energetic choices make permanent habits. Choose with care.
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Often we want to change ourselves, but don’t know how to make it stick. Usually it isn’t too hard to start a new diet or exercise program, begin a course of learning, or ease off on an undesired habit. It’s continuing on with the change that can prove difficult. We often lose ambition or inner fortitude, and the more permanent alteration we wish for eludes us.
We struggle with the change and with ourselves. We dislike ourselves when we don’t adhere to the new regimen. Our personal disappointment just seems to add to our resistance. It all seems so difficult.
Frequently, our heart and mind may be at odds regarding the change. We want to lose weight, but we really like eating potato chips. We want a new professional degree, but all the studying and class work seems tiresome and time consuming. We know we should quit swearing, but secretly enjoy uttering a strong expletive. We seesaw between trying to alter ourselves and reverting to our previous behavior.
In all the back and forth, we lose sight of the fact that we don’t have to make the change alone. We forget that we have help—divine help—right inside of ourselves. A piece of divine consciousness known as the sharing within resides within us and we can call on all the resources of the entire universe (aka the sharing), through our sharing within, to help us.