Each of us is pushed and pulled by the requirements of society, parents, governments and teachers – and in addition to all of this we have to deal with pressure from our equals too.

Saying No Is Truly A Life Skill: No: Fundamentally this whole issue is about learning how to say No cleanly and clearly. By and large many of us have a real and important need to become a lot clearer about what we are trying to achieve. This concerns everything, from everyday practical matters to avoiding unpleasant feelings. The problem is to achieve a clear mind and then to find the solutions to problems. The 7 Words System offers a simple innate practice that allows us to access a greatly improved sense of what it is that we are looking for. This opens with No. First and foremost we will need to identify precisely what we don’t want, what is not useful, before we can know what we do want.

Saying No Is Truly A Life Skill: Hello: Being open to new understandings is certainly likely to help. The following stage relates to the word Hello. We may well have to open up to new ways to see everything if we are to open out our range of keys to the troubles that life throws up. We surely know that? To get something new we will need to extend our scope and look where we have not formerly looked earlier. Fresh dreams, new friends, new situations and new things are clearly facets of giving consideration to something we have not previously lived through. It calls us to trade old for new, that we have something to offer in reasonable return for what we want to acquire for ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »