Dear Cali Chica:

Amazing you are.

The deliberate effort you wrote about, tiring, difficult. Most people give up for that very reason, too difficult, too not habitual. To pay attention and choose intentionally, thoughtfully, not reactively. People give up and give in to the old, habitual ways of thinking and talking and doing.

I found that once I walked long enough on what I call the healing path, I went too far to be able to go back to the old and habitual. I was still troubled- still am- by old thinking and by some habitual behaviors  but I am too far to be able, even if I wanted, to stop moving forward and walk backward. Going back is not a choice available to me.

“with practice makes perfect”, you wrote. Persistent, ongoing practice makes new habits form, new neuropathways to interrupt the configuration of the old pathways, a new mapping of the brain.

Intentional living is the highest form of living, available only to humans. To no longer be reactors, but creators of our own persons. This is what is the amazing part.

anita