It’s that time again….<\/p>\n
Time for a new age reality check.<\/p>\n
This time, it’s the word “should”.<\/p>\n
So many people seem to be trying to cut the word should out of their vocabulary. <\/p>\n There’s a negative way to use it and a positive way to use it.<\/p>\n At its core, should implies a normative judgement about reality. It implies things should be different than where they are. But many things should be different from the way they are.<\/p>\n In the Buddhist \/ Hindi absolute sense things are perfect as they are, but that’s not the world of form, that’s the word of formlessness or emptiness.<\/p>\n And in the world of form, there are all sorts of “should’s” the voice in your head is telling you to do that you *should* probably listen to.<\/p>\n You should eat healthy. You should be kind to yourself and others. You should aim to live a life of joy, love and purpose.<\/p>\n Finally, let’s short circuit the “should” debate at its core, through device of the “Performative Contradiction”.<\/p>\n Wanting to stop using the word “should”, inherently has a should embedded in it.<\/p>\n “I should really stop saying to myself I should do things”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"