Eliminate the Should
- Catelynn Aries
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min read
How many times do you find yourself saying "I should do this....I should do that....I should have done that or they should have acted or been in such a way. This shouldn't happen. That shouldn't be. They shouldn't get away with that or this should be the way it is"....

But I must say my friend....all is as it should be.
And if it isn't...then its up to you to make it different.
If we stew on what it should have been....we live in the past.
If we toil in our minds about what it should be now...we fail to see that which is in front of us.
If we think, this is how it should be in the future..we leave our bodies in the present moment and fail to be able to reason and respond to what is.
I am hear to implore you today... to respectfully eliminate the word "should" from your vocabulary.
If you always do or think or say what you "should", never questionging, there is a chance that you aren't being authentic to what you actually are. If you suffer from depressions, extreme fear, agora or xenophonbie or anger and rage issues....there is a good chance that the should has taken your mind over. And living outside of this place of autheniticy always gets us caught up in more and more of what other think we "should" be. And it leaves us feeling shorted and manipulated....because the more we get caught up in the spider web of shoulds...do we become more entangled in the expectaions and demands of others and the culture around us.
So why do we get stuck in should? And why do we think we should do something that may actually be hindering our progress of our souls towards our higher self's call?
Conditioning.
Conditioning is what happens during the formative years of our life by our family, childhood experiences, culture, friends, school....Its what we should think. Should Feel. Should do. Should belive. Should have and deserve. This is where the should comes from. And the process of awakening will always call these elements of should out to the forefront to be evaluated time and time again until the desire of the soul is heard and validated.
How can you know what you really are? What you really want if you are always worried about the shoulds of your conditioning? How can you express your full and authentic truth...if all you say is what you ...."should"? How can you move on from the past if you cant get past the fact that it "should" have been different.
The way to move forward in life...is not in what it should be. It is in acceptance for what is. And love and compassion for whatever pain may have come from that space. And lessons learned so you need never be lost in the "should" ever again.
Though I am not a huge fan of the phrase....shoulda, woulda, coulda....it does apply....and it serves us only in a way to say hey...lets leave that in the past. And lets learn from it...and let it go. There is a time to process and heal the pain of damage whether internal, external, or both. But at the end of the day....this healing will only ever come from a place of ....acceptance.
What it SHOULD be...doesn't matter. Only what is. Only from a place of real. Acceptance....can we be grounded enough to put energy into the earth and allow the Mother to guide our steps into wholeness. Only when our energy is unhindered by the thought of should...can we express and align our energy to manifest what it truly desires.
So let go of the should....
And live in the now.
Be present in this moment....and accept all you are.
Discover your be. And let it shine.
Namaste Loves

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