And a lot of us get scared in that moment when we realize, wait, you're telling me I actually get to write out what I want to believe.

And it sounds hokey.

It sounds very new agey.

Why can't we make a choice of what we want to believe?

Once you allow for that, it's a big, big leap for many of us.

But now we can start the real search, which is,

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This idea that we walk through our lives, carrying expectations and understandings of how to be.

And then when those don't play out, we end up unfortunately blaming ourselves first and

foremost. One of the first things we typically do is not re-examine the programming, but instead we assume

there's something wrong with us, and that is why the programming is it working.

And I wanted to focus on that a little bit today, because this is one of the hardest

concepts for a lot of us to really, really get.

We can understand it logically, but even that only happens when somebody presents that to us,

because we do at our core have

needs for acceptance we have a need to feel loved we have a need to be appreciated we have a need

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