{"id":6862,"date":"2013-07-16T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T23:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T21:57:29","slug":"saying-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/07\/16\/saying-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying No"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"No\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s hard for me to say No sometimes.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it feels like I can’t just say it, even though I need to.<\/p>\n

It feels wrong.<\/p>\n

It feels like it’s not an option.<\/p>\n

Despite what I feel, the problem isn’t that I want to say No, it’s me deciding it’s wrong to say No.<\/p>\n

When I feel it is wrong to say, my communication ends up reflecting this.<\/p>\n

I become unclear, and\/or rejecting, and our connection suffers as a result.<\/p>\n

But, when I stay in a place where I feel there is no problem in saying No, my communication feels all the more open \u2014 to me and the person I am connecting with.<\/p>\n

By acknowledging and working with my resistance to saying No, I am able to practice staying light and responding clearly with why no is my answer, without remorse.<\/p>\n

I can feel that I am respecting the person I’m communicating with, AND respecting myself as the same time. <\/p>\n

I am respecting myself enough to say No when I mean it, and I am respecting you enough not to say Yes when I don’t. <\/p>\n

I am me, I trust me and I know what’s best for me. This is what I am acting on and this is what I can feel good communicating.<\/p>\n

No matter how you choose to respond.<\/p>\n

photo credit: fotogail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"No\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s hard to say no sometimes.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it feels like I can’t say it.<\/p>\n

That it would be wrong to.<\/p>\n

In those moments, I am feeling that no is not an option for me.<\/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":[239,238,240,237],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-communication","tag-feelings","tag-intention","tag-rejection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","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=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}