Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

James has a wonderful ability to listen – really listen – to what I say.  He accepts everything with no judgement and I feel comfortable telling him anything.  Sometimes just having someone ‘hear your story’ is enough on its own but James also challenged my thought processes, reminded me of the choices I had available to me without telling me what to choose, reflected back what I had said to him so that I could hear how it sounded from the outside.  He did not offer empty platitudes, tell me not to be ‘so silly, say ‘of course you are a lovely person’ or tell me what to believe.  He challenged me to believe in myself, to examine how I really felt and to be honest with myself.  He introduced me to the idea of positive and negative energy, how this can be created and the effects it can have on so many aspects of life; and in moments of crisis, when life events caused me to lapse back into old thought patterns and made me forget everything that he had ever taught me, he was there to patiently remind me of all that I already knew and help me lift myself back onto the right path.

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