The Miracle

It’s Your Choice!

- By: Shabnam Khan -Family Counsellor For any inquiries please email at shabnam@skcounsell­ing.ca

6 top for a moment and think about your life. ow’s your health, your relationsh­ip and your sense of spir itual serenity Your experience­s today are a result of your past choices, patterns and habits. re you happy with the way you’re living or have you fallen into a less than healthy habit that you Must can’t seem to climb out of

NOBODY’S PERFECT.

We all have at least one pattern of behav ior that doesn’t serve us. We eat or drink or work too much. We choose friendship­s that don’t really honor us, and we react instead of responding in challengin­g mo ments. Yet in most cases, we still manage to function. 6ometimes our negative pat terns have small costs simply slowing down our progress and at other times, the price we pay for our poor choices are devastatin­g. These choices can ruin our health, relationsh­ip, career or even our family life. You may be overeating to find comfort, drinking too much to relieve stress, or spending too many hours at the office to avoid tension at home. You have to be come fully aware of the situation. The only way to do this is by being honest with yourself. The key to making lasting, positive change is understand­ing where your negative pattern of behavior comes from. There are healthy and un healthy ways to meet the needs in our lives. If the decisions are based on un healthy hab its, it moves us away from greater empowermen­twerment and happiness happiness. We can complain all we want, but if we don’t tackle what’s causing us having these unhealthy choices, we can’t ad dress our deeper fears and won’t be able to make true commitment to having more balance in our lives. Without a clear un derstandin­g of our motives, we’ll keep trying to break our bad habits from the outside in and then dislike ourselves each time we fail. This leaves us feeling even more hopeless and creates a vicious cycle. The bottom line if you want to achieve lasting positive change and become the person you know you can, have healthy choices in your life. It may be time to wake up. It may be time to gradually change direction to implement some healthy choices in your lifestyle

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