{"id":5835,"date":"2012-05-22T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T21:58:59","slug":"what-i-dont-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2012\/05\/22\/what-i-dont-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Don&#8217;t Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5839\" title=\"Keep Out\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Out\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The subject\u2019s been coming up a lot for me lately.<\/p>\n<p>It seems I am being schooled in the Art of Alchemy. I&#8217;m being taught about my ability to transmute that which is undesirable into something worthy.<\/p>\n<p>I am learning to understand the power of what I don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<h3>I don\u2019t want it&#8230; and that\u2019s okay<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes I can be too open to the possibilities&#8230; Sometimes I can be a bit too eager to accept what\u2019s being given to me.<\/p>\n<p>The Truth is some things aren\u2019t good for me to open to. Some things being offered aren\u2019t meant to expand me. Some things aren\u2019t given to me with the best of intentions.<\/p>\n<h3>If I know I don\u2019t want it, I\u2019ll know not to accept it<\/h3>\n<p>I can not afford to be open to everything. Accepting into my life what I don\u2019t want causes me to contract, grow small and get quiet. That is not what I want for my Self.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important I learn what I don\u2019t want to take in, so when it is offered to me, I can choose not to receive it. I can better make choices that leave me open to expansion, and secure from contracting forces, when I know my own boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping out what doesn&#8217;t work, I can claim that space as a place to discover what does work for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufflife\/4054333530\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\">RuffLife<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5839\" title=\"Keep Out\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Out\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KeepOut-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The subject\u2019s been coming up a lot for me lately.<\/p>\n<p>It seems I am being schooled in the Art of Alchemy. I&#8217;m being taught about my ability to transmute that which is undesirable into something worthy.<\/p>\n<p>I am learning to understand the power of what I don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<h3>I don\u2019t want it&#8230; and that\u2019s okay<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes I can be too open to the possibilities&#8230; Sometimes I can be a bit too eager to accept what\u2019s being given to me.<\/p>\n<p>The Truth is some things aren\u2019t good for me to open to. Some things being offered aren\u2019t meant to expand me. Some things aren\u2019t given to me with the best of intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,64,63,65],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-alchemy","tag-change","tag-positive","tag-transmute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}