{"id":323,"date":"2022-04-17T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2023-09-21T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T21:28:49","slug":"saying-yes-and-saying-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Saying &#8220;Yes&#8221; and Saying &#8220;No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;d like to talk about choices; saying &#8220;yes&#8221; and saying &#8220;no&#8221;. We make choices everyday. Some practical, some preferential; and perhaps some habitual. Personally, I am noticing patterns to my choices and exploring my motivations. I notice that I&#8217;m now willing to practice allowing open space in my day; to say yes to inspiration, reflection, more often than before and to feel a sense of purpose within that. I can see that so much of my choices have been without mindfulness and have come from an obligatory place of focusing on others&#8217; needs while discounting my own. <br><br>Now, I feel a redirection internally aligned with love. Love for myself and others. As my focus shifts my perspective away from obligation I also see a habitual fear response to trusting that love will come my way. It is not a conscious choice. I often don&#8217;t know it is happening in the moment but recognize it later with reflection. As I remind myself of the present moment, my breath, the earth beneath my feet, and my connection to Spirit, God, Great Mystery, my higher Self; there is more space available for me to &#8220;be&#8221; in. Looking at my options from that place feels so different! From that spacious place inside myself I feel an endless capacity to love, no limits, no fear, no time constraints &#8211; just a fluid network of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to talk about choices; saying &#8220;yes&#8221; and saying &#8220;no&#8221;. We make choices everyday. Some practical, some preferential; and perhaps some habitual. Personally, I am noticing patterns to my choices and exploring my motivations. I notice that I&#8217;m now willing to practice allowing open space in my day; to say yes to inspiration, reflection, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saying &#8220;Yes&#8221; and Saying &#8220;No&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}