Excerpt from: STAR WARS THE JEDI MIND – Secrets from the Force for Balance and Peace

Letting go of SHOULD

• Notice the next time you use the word “should” whether you think or say it.
• Question the source of the should. Why do you think you should or shouldn’t have done something or behaved in a certain way? What can or can’t be done to change it?
• Make a regular practice of observing when you use “should.” Investigating why you use it will help you be more susceptible to learning, rather than being stuck in old ways of thinking.

Luke has many preconceived ideas about how the galaxy works by the time he arrives on Dagobah. Yoda repeatedly advises Luke to clear his mind and trust the Force. It doesn’t really click for Luke until he sees the impossible – Yoda lifting Luke’s X-wing fro the swamp – with his own eyes.

Minds constantly measure everything against how we think things should be. But what is our source of this condition of should? Why that and not something else? Having preconceived ideas can block us from absorbing new information.

You must unlearn, what you have learned.

~ Yoda