Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ~Kevyn Aucoin

It is all about choices. Yes, even when you don’t feel good, struggle with sadness, change, grief and loss, anxiety…you may not be able to choose your circumstances but you do have a choice about how you choose to handle and think about circumstances.

I am not saying it is easy, things seldom are, and I can speak from experience that it sometimes takes a monumental effort to change my own thinking but the more I practice, the easier it becomes.

I always have a choice about how I react and how I CHOOSE to think about things. It may only shift my emotions a tiny bit but I will take it!

You can change how you think. Substitute the words “I choose” for the words “I have to” and see how it shifts you.