Choosing yourself is the only way to thrive in the world. You can only know yourself and your own reactions, so this is the only truly accurate compass you will ever have. You can’t steer by what other people want or need, and it will make you crazy trying to figure out what that is anyway.

Learn to check in with yourself. Yes, it takes some practice. Yes, it will feel scary at first. Yes, you will get some things “wrong.” This is the process of self awareness. Learning to know yourself, becoming familiar with how your body reacts, and then learning to trust what it tells you. And then, most important of all, choosing yourself first.

Making a commitment to love and trust yourself above all others.

You will never be sorry for this, ever.

Even when it seems like your choice might hurt another. Every one of the choices I made in my life in order to avoid hurting someone has ended up hurting them (and me) more in the long run. You can’t know what is best for someone else, only for you. Choose you.

In the same vein, no one else can know what is right for you (even your mom, your partner or your bestie, unfortunately). It might feel safer to outsource your decision-making to a committee of friends, authority figures or even a deck of oracle cards, but your best decision-making tool is right there with you all the time in your own body and its reactions.

Listen up, because I’m going to tell you how to use it.

Our bodies send us signals all the time, but usually they’re drowned out by our busy minds. We tend to place a lot more awareness on our thoughts than our feelings (feelings are uncomfortable- until you learn to be friends with them), which doesn’t help.

In fact, the “stories” you tell yourself about your experience are probably the biggest obstacles clouding your judgment. In order to listen carefully to your body, you need to practice dropping the storyline and tuning in to the pure sensations.

When you’re out of your body you can’t be true to yourself, because the body is the doorway to your truest and highest self, the YOU that you are at the deepest level. When you come home to yourself you’ll experience a deep peace and a knowing that feels so true and so free.

So please, choose YOU, choose YOU, choose YOU!

XO, Amanda

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