The Power of Yes and Next
No is a negative; Stuck is a choice
Empowering Language and Thought
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In learning to consciously co-create
my reality with the universe, to be
more in the flow of right action
and to more fully utilize my God-given
faculties, I have received guidance
from others many, many, many times.
Sometimes, they were spiritually aware
beings and other times, they were just
people who had mastered a certain
frequency of living.
For example, a friend of mine who
certainly knew how to call money
to her with every project she
undertook taught me the creative
importance of two words:
Yes and Next
She told me to say yes.
At that time, fear caused me to
say no to a lot of opportunities.
In fact, it was a kneejerk
reaction to any new idea.
No! Even before I knew why.
I was trying to keep myself safe
from life by saying no to anything
new, and therefore, confusing to me.
It didn’t work because what I realized finally was that saying no to something just meant saying yes to nothing.
MEANT SAYING YES TO NOTHING
So, I made a shift and decided I’d try saying yes to the universe, yes to considering new ideas, yes to trying new things.
Discernment wasn’t there at that time so I said yes to some things that were hindering but it was still better than saying no to everything out of fear.
The Power of Next
This same friend taught me
the incredible power of “next”.
When a door closed for her,
she immediately said “next”,
knowing that there was
something better waiting.
Of course, saying “next”
without knowing another
door is there somewhere
is scary.
Sometimes, when we are on
the brink of losing something
we greatly value, we’d rather
stay stuck in trying to hold on
to it and wondering how we
can fix ourselves or fix it,
than to say to the universe
“next”.
These a huge concepts,
the balance of which cannot
be covered in an article but
that must be walked out in
experience.
Obviously, we can say yes to things that will result in pain,
suffering and loss. Also, we can say “next” before we get
whatever lesson was in the situation that didn’t work out
for us.
But when kept in balance, the power of “Yes” and “Next”
can keep us walking through our fears, embracing life
more fully and living life with more excitement.
ps. It’s even more than saying yes, actually.
It’s learning how to craft a yes answer in any
situation. Even if I have two choices, and one
is discerned to me more progressive than the
other, it is far more powerful for me to say yes
to the one that feels right than to say no to
the one that doesn’t. It’s a subtle shift in
handling choices. If I make the choice in
a “yes” way, I’ve kept the momentum flowing
toward progress, growth and balance. If I
approach decisions from the “no” place, I’ve
temporarily stopped my progress for the period
of time I was in the frequency of “no”.