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Choose What You Want In Life!
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 Choose What You Want In Life!2003-12-21 07:10
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By John and Patrice Robson via Vicky:
"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose." -- Harry Browne

Choice. It's all about freedom--the freedom to pick one thing over another. Are you choosing what you want from life?

"Oh no," comes the reply. "I can't because... I haven't got enough education. ...I need to look after my family. ...I don't have enough money. ...I don't have the time." What's your excuse?

The truth is that we have choice in every single moment of our lives. For those who are destitute, the choices in life are fewer. But the rest of us often think we don't have freedom when we simply haven't claimed our power to choose differently.

How do you typically make decisions? Do you do so based on:

* "shoulds" - doing what you believe you should do.
* pleasing others - doing what others want or expect you to do.
* fear - choosing the safe route for fear of doing something different.
* habit and reaction - you don't even think about what you're doing--you've always done it this way?

On the other hand, you own your power to choose when you decide on the basis of:

* desire - choosing something you want
* need - responding to deeper desires
* authenticity - you know who you are and what you stand for
* creative expression - you strive to be more.

So how can you open to choosing differently?

1. Be clear about what you want. Have a sense of purpose. With a target to aim for, you'll know what will serve you best.

2. STOP and ASK yourself questions. "Why am I doing this? What do I want to achieve?" WRITE down your answers. Be more conscious of how you are spending your precious time, because this is your life passing by. This will help you say, "Wait! I don't want to do this anymore!"

3. Never allow yourself to play the victim. Victims have given away their power. You alone are responsible for your life. When you fully accept this, you will claim your inner power to make better choices. Change often comes from nothing more than a shift in perspective.

4. Be open to possibilities for yourself. Select one area of your life where you are unsatisfied, and choose something new, something more for yourself. Do different things and do things differently. Risk more.

Empowerment arises from the three Cs: choice, courage and change. They are yours to claim. You'll be astounded at how easy it will be to take charge once you've made up your mind to do so. You have the opportunity to create a future that's very different from your past. And remember: not choosing is also a choice.

"It is always your next move." -- Napoleon Hill



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21 Dec 2003 @ 07:25 by istvan : Yes.
Some good murmurs from the darkness.  

21 Dec 2003 @ 11:06 by jstarrs : Looks like mindfulness...
...is behind this, again!  

21 Dec 2003 @ 16:19 by ming : Kids
Somehow I seem to have a hard time convincing my kids. OK, I don't always live by everything I believe in, but I would think I'm mostly a pretty good example. But it seems strangely difficult to pass on to teenagers the wisdom that the world is wide open and you just need to choose, and the universe will tend to supply what you've chosen.  

21 Dec 2003 @ 16:27 by hgoodgame : We want so much to pass our wisdom,
hard won that it was, to our children. The truth is that they will have to struggle to find it just as we did - only in their own way. What we can do is be there to share when they are ready.  

21 Dec 2003 @ 21:02 by magical_melody : Thanks Flemming!
Ah yes, the power of choice and decree is amazingly potent. I think where we most get confused or attached are with the outcomes which are in the Universes/Creator's hands. Yes often we are a victim of our own pains and attitudes, so I see it as important to get clear about what we are saying to ourselves as these messages and attitudes we carry within so impact our responses and behaviors. I think we all need to be more compassionate towards ourselves and one another as we have many issues to address and heal collectively.  

21 Dec 2003 @ 23:55 by craiglang : The trick is to...
learn what it is that you actually want. As a teacher once said to me, "In seeking the right path, knowing one's self is the most important step..."
Since we create our own reality, it is important to manifest only the reality(ies) we desire. Or, phrased another way, be careful what you wish for.

And I've also seen, all through life, that this is much easier said than done... :-)  

22 Dec 2003 @ 05:13 by ming : Choice
I also think it is that we need to notice where we have have a choice and where we don't. If I come to a crossroad, I might go left, I might go right, or I might walk back, or I might just stay there and do nothing, or I might walk off the road and start creating a new path. There are usually more choices than we think. But there are many more choices that aren't there. I'm at a specific cross road, which has certain options, and the options of other cross roads aren't there. I can get on the bus and go to many places today. But Hong Kong or Mars or the center of the earth or last week are not among them. They're not choices for me today. If I want to go to Mars, I can make choices on where I go with the bus today which might lead me in that direction, and if I keep making choices in that direction, I might make it.  

22 Dec 2003 @ 06:49 by istvan : Ming, your statement:
"I also think it is that we need to notice where we have have a choice and where we don't."
If stated thus: We need to acknowledge/research and heed where we have choices and where we don't; could be the bases and ways to proceed toward new civilizations. As we are accustomed/spoiled by the erroneous/fantasy ideas of the so worshipped, ideas of freedom , it is possible to get totally lost in the cacophony of mindtrips. We at this network have not yet, as far as I noticed, have not yet even began to discuss the ways/possibilities of where we have ad to apply choices for creating new/applicable paths that lead to that NC.
A good theory about this might be presented here: { F:\SCIENCE\UNIFIED THEORT\backgroundTUT.mht}.
The very basic choice to me in a living Universe presents itself only as: To Breathe or Not To Breathe.
The rest is just coincidental.
"Communication and understanding are paramount in a time when many different people from many different cultures are trying to work together. The goal of cooperation seems almost impossible when misunderstandings occur daily between people of the same culture, who speak the same language, and who are often using the same words.


PIERRE TEILHARD de CHARDIN

The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those
who have managed to attain egotistically the extremity
of 'everyone for himself' is false and against nature...
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future,
the entry into the super-human --
these are not thrown open
to a few of the priveged or to one chosen people
to the exclusion of all others.
They will only open to an advance of all together,
in a direction in which all together can join and find completion
in a spiritual renovation of the earth...
No evolutionary future awaits man except in association with all other men.


ALBERT EINSTEIN
"A human being is part of the Whole...He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separated from the rest...a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the
striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a
foundation for inner security".


ERWIN SCHROEDINGER
Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is, in a certain sense, the WHOLE; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in the sacred, mystic formula which is yet so simple and so clear: "Tat Tvam asi". this is you...And not merely "someday"; now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once, but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.


PIERRE TEILHARD de CHARDIN
In the most general form and from the point of view of physics, love is the internally affectively apprehended aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world, centre to centre...Love is power of producing intercentric relationship. It is present, therefore (at least in a rudimentary state), in all natural centres liiving and preliving, which make up the world; and it represents, too, the most profound, most direct, and most creative form of inter-action that is possible to conceive between those centres...Love, in fact, is the expression and agent of Universal Synthesis.


MARTIN LUTHER KING
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly. affects all indirectly... I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.


MURRAY GELL-MANN
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavoir of the whole."


JONAS SALK
Matter at each
level of complexity appears to consist of two interdependent,
nonidentical elements in dynamic interaction and in integral
relation to each other. It appears that an interacting, dynamic,
asymmetrical binary relationship is the fundamental module of
order in the cosmos. I have the impression that the interactions in these dynmamic asymmetrical binary systems underlie all phenomena in nature...The most fundamental phenomena in the universe is relationship. It then becomes possible to recognize the underlying unity in all the diversity of the phenomena of life.


Each of us is both unique and a microcosm of the Whole: each is a once scientist/artist/mystic. Hence, each is equipped both to contribute something of value to the co-creation and to unite and be one with the Whole.


As I see it, we, the human denizens of our planet, are involved in a whole concatenation of mutually-reinforcing developments,. with far-reaching implications for all life on earth as well as for human consciousness. One of these is the unprecedented global interdependendcy of peoples or nations. brought about through modern mass industry, commerce, communications and transpoirt -- developments that were in turn made impossible by modern science and technology. New technology now making its appearence will further intensify societal interconnections. The change that has already been brought is momentous, and its most extraordinay feature is that all the different aspects of societal existence, taken singly and together (including politico-socio-economic conditions, human rights, the quality of the environment, international security and peace), are virtually indivisible. It makes of us our brothers keepers, whether we are ready to be or not."
Anna Lemkow

"What you need to do is wake up. To wake up means to snap your
mental movies a dozen times a day, fifty times a day, until you
see the difference between mental movies and simple awareness of
what is going on."
-- Vernon Howard  

22 Dec 2003 @ 06:57 by jstarrs : Ming...
..." But it seems strangely difficult to pass on to teenagers the wisdom that the world is wide open and you just need to choose, and the universe will tend to supply what you've chosen."
I guess your kids probably want to choose, like most of us, a peaceful world in which to live in.....me? I'm still waiting. (cynical mood today & no apologies...)  

28 Dec 2003 @ 12:25 by bluewhoooo : CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE

LIFE IS A FIELD OF ALL POSSIBLILITIES. IF YOU CAN FIRST CONCEIVE OF IT.
CONVICTION BEHIND THE IDEA. THOUGHT WITH THE IDEA THAT IT CAN BE DONE, KNOWING, IS THE KEY, WITHOUT DOUBT THAT IT IS ALREADY AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT.

1. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WANT.
2. USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO CREATE IT, WITH EVERY DETAIL.
3. USE VISUALIZATION, IN YOUR MINDS EYE CREATE IT IN EVERY DETAIL.
4. BELIEVE IT AS AN ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED FACT. NEVER TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW IT WILL COME TO YOU, JUST KNOW IT IS ALREADY YOURS. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE. SO BE IT.  

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