Too often we distract ourselves from the present moment with mental stories that predict the negative possibilities of our future lives. These stories exist due to past traumatic pain that we have experienced and are now trying to avoid. We avoid potential future pain by experiencing a virtually reality in our heads that tries to predict and control the outcome of the unknown of the present moment. This is a perfectly good survival strategy, however, it comes at a cost. First, we still have to deal with the pain of the present moment regardless of how much we try to avoid it. Second, it forces us to sabotage and disconnect from any love and connection that enters our lives due to the risk of pain that is unavoidable within heart-felt connection. Therefore we must make a choice, to either sit with the things that scare us or avoid the love that enters our lives.

Affirmations

1) I am willing to stand in the spaces that trigger my deepest fears of pain and loss (because it is in these spaces that we avoid the present moment)

2) I will no longer distract myself away from the present moment, regardless of the discomfort.

3) I am willing to sit in my pain and not fight it (because that is where I can reconnect to my full self)

4) I am willing to put my entire heart and soul into the things that I believe in regardless of the risk.

5) I choose to be vulnerable and to feel love and life again

6) I choose to feel the love that is all around me