There is a feeling you get right before you are about to do something wrong. A little twinge to let you know that in that split second, there is a choice. It happens in the midst of a heated conversation and sometimes things are said that shouldn’t be.
Most often you could stop them before they come tumbling out but then…you don’t. Or instead of a cookie you eat the whole box. You know you will regret it. You tell yourself not to. But you do it anyway.
Why is it so hard to listen to ourselves? It takes practice and conscious discipline.Not easy, but the little rush you get from rebelling against yourself flits by and is replaced by the dreaded guilt of the ‘should not have’ and that sits around weighing you down for a long time.
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Perspectively Yours 