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We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we’ve made up, are the truth.

Debbie Ford

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother’s dress.
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Growth Hide Insecurity Mom Ourselves Time
A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past.
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Action Past Pattern Result Strong Yourself
Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.
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Choice Embrace Feeling Rejection Yourself
It is only when you’re lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you’ll get an emotional charge from someone else’s behavior.
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Charge Emotional Hate Lying Yourself
Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?
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Experience Heaven Hell Suffering Yourself
In order to access a warrior’s courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up.
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Afraid Change Exploration Give Up Order Warrior
You can’t just say that you’re committed to creating the best year of your life and expect it to stick. You have to make a conscious effort to allow this commitment to become part of your internal belief system.
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Belief Commitment Creation Expectation Ourselves System
We see only that which we are.
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Ourselves Philosophy Sight
Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.
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Life Peace Shadow Transformation Yourself
We can’t fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.
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Compassionate Darkness Fight Transcendence
To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.
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Courage Image Live Ourselves Place Story Warrior
What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?
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Authentic Confidence Hide Life Power True Yourself
Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.
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Beautiful Born Experience Flower Honor Life Ourselves Respect
We each need to become our own hero.
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Each Other Hero Need Togetherness
To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we’re holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.
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Emotional Experience Feeling Freedom Leaving Ourselves Pain Past Surrender
Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.
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Claim Human Ourselves Power Unique

We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we’ve made up, are the truth.

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We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we’ve made up, are the truth.

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