The root meaning of "No" is not punitive, suppressive, demeaning or controlling.
"No" is rooted to "Knowledge".... "to know".
Using the word, "no", with its most positive intent would not be to tell you, "No! don't do that!"
Instead "no" would be calling you to knowledge, "to know", to be aware and thereby do the right thing.
So "yes" and "no" are sisters communicating the same intent of agreement and knowledge.
"Yes" and "no" are not opposites but companions communicating approval and wisdom, a point of view free of doubt and fear.
Fear-No-More World WALKS are walks for "yes" = "no".
Resist telling someone "No, you cannot".
Never tell yourself, "No, I cannot".
When we tell someone, "no", let's do so to draw each other beyond limitation and suppression... into self-know-ledge, awareness and freedom, helping to undo the fear and doubt this present culture tends to prefer, that strange fear we've come to feel safe within...
Yes and No-ledge, in their fullness, are not different or opposites.
They are the same.