Those phrases that say things like…”it’ll never work”
can, if we let them, take powerful grip.

And those phrases don’t go away – instead we can can learn to let go their hold on us, their hold over us so that they slip into the background of our awareness.

It takes a lot more than just believing that we can, but when we allow ourselves to believe we can begin to take our next step…

And as in meditating where we focus attention on breathing we likely notice our attention has drifted elsewhere, we can gently steer it back – whenever we notice those those phrases, we do likewise: gently steer our attention back to where we want it, believing that we can…