It’s not the thoughts you have; it’s the thoughts you recycle into belief. We all have negative and distorted thoughts arise. However, the difference between joy and suffering, success and failure, depends on which thoughts we repeat, believe, and then act on with emotion.

Before you can free yourself from what binds you, you have to first believe that you deserve to be free.

You’ll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong.

The up moments might feel like progress while the down moments feel like failure, but they are both a part of the process. Healing and recovery is like breathing, with expansion and contraction. It’s like a heartbeat, up and down. It is natural for it to seesaw until you find balance.

If you can’t or don’t want to do the work, your relationship becomes vulnerable to termination. At that point, it’s only a matter of who will get tired of all the games, lies, miscommunications, misunderstandings, and inauthenticity first. The further you step away from the core of your relationship, the closer you get to its end.

Self-confidence is not about how much you know and how much you’ve gained. It’s about having trust in your ability to learn new information and find new ways. Feeling secure isn’t about knowing you’re safe on top of the mountain, it’s about trusting in your ability to climb it again if you should fall.

Think of your focus as a charger. It sends more power to where you channel the energy. You can charge up aggression, problems, and conflicts or wellness, compassion, and harmony. You can charge peace or war, love or hate, success or failure. You are the connecting factor between creative energy and reality.

We do not see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.” –The Talmud.

Sometimes great change happens only after the worst change occurs. Negativity can be the start point of positivity. Destruction can lead to creation. It’s not hopeless; darkness is the birthplace of hope.

Ironically, we are most scared when we are most safe, just before we make the jump. Fear is heightened when the act is stuck in our minds unable to move forward into completion. Once we take the leap and it becomes a reality, the fear of it disappears and we can then enjoy the experience.