“See your day as a series of choices.
Choose the red shirt or the blue. Choose to have breakfast or to skip it. Choose to judge or to have compassion.
A new choice will only feel hard when you have been choosing something else for a long time.
So the first time you try to choose compassion in a situation where you usually choose anger, it will be a challenge.
But it is only a challenge because you have chosen anger so many times, not because anger is more natural than compassion.
The ease with which you feel one emotion over another is not because that emotion is inherently easier.
It is simply because you have chosen it so many times before.
But just because you have chosen it for months or years doesn’t mean you need to keep choosing it forever more.
See your day as a series of choices.”
~~ Astra, a higher aspect of me