This post is all about the power of choosing consciously. You’ll learn the importance of making conscious choices throughout your day. This will allow you to overcome negativity and welcome the good so you can live a life you love.
Choosing Consciously to Shape Your Reality
Spirit’s bringing our awareness to the power of choosing consciously today. You’re making choices all day long, every day. You choose what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what to say or not say, etc. Are they conscious choices?
Unconscious Choices, Unintended Consequences
But if you’re like most people, most of the choosing you do is unconscious. You choose out of habit, do what’s easy, or what you’re familiar with. There are consequences to all of our choices, the big and little ones. In fact, it’s the little ones that we make on a repeated basis that accumulate over time into unpleasant consequences.
I recall an interaction with one of my old neighbors. He shared that he’d just been at his doctor’s office for an appointment and found out that he was borderline diabetic. Without judging or suggesting, I asked, “Well, is that something that could be controlled by diet?” and his immediate response was, “I’m NOT giving up my Diet Dr. Pepper!”
The Price of Unconscious Choices
So, alrighty then, I got the answer and there was nothing more for me to say. He moved shortly thereafter so I don’t know if he ever got past his initial resistance and made the changes he clearly knew he should make. But this is actually a very typical reaction by many. It’s not until forced with an ultimatum, the suffering has become unbearable, or they’re facing death that they choose consciouly to make the changes they should have made long ago.
Choosing Consciously : Empowering Even in Difficult Times
You always have the power of choice. You may think there’s no other options, but that’s not true. Even when your back is against the wall you get to choose your attitude in the moment. By bringing your awareness to the moment, you have the option of choosing consciously to do something willingly or begrudgingly.
Choose to Hand Over the Burden to Spirit
By the way, I don’t recommend you choose the latter option. Instead, let me suggest that you make the conscious choice to hand the burden over to Spirit. Ask Spirit to guide you as you do this thing you don’t want to do but feel you must. There are always more possibilities than your limited human nature mind can conjure up. Handing over the burden to Spirit will open the doors for Spirit to drop in more ideas and options. Remember, in every given moment you get to choose on what and how you focus your attention.
The Magic of Focused Attention
My guess is that you can probably understand how this is likely true. But that doesn’t mean you understand the power of knowing this. Here’s what I’m getting at: In any given moment whatever is happening in the world or in your life is simply what is happening. It’s neither good nor bad. It simply is what is. But your judgment of it, my friend, the label that you put on it (something you choose), that determines how you experience it.
Mistakes: Part of a Divine Plan?
I’ve come to understand that God has Its hands in everything, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And that includes the mistakes I make. That’s a hard one to grasp, but how can it be any other way? God is everywhere at once, all knowing, and all powerful. God is All-That-Is and is present in and loves everyone and everything. So there must be a purpose for the horrible things that happen, including the mistakes I make.
Learning from Mistakes: Finding the Silver Lining
Though we’re often not aware and can’t see it in the moment, there’s always something to be gained from every experience. Who knows? It could leave you or someone else, unbeknownst to you, in a better position in the future. Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better. Do your best to consciously choose to learn all you can from your mistakes so you don’t wind up making the same one again.
Shifting Perspective: From Fear to Grace
I have to remind myself all the time to suspend my judgment and seek the higher and long range perspective of Spirit. I know I get to choose how I view things. I can choose to focus on the horror of what I experience or I can choose to start looking for the good that will come from it. This doesn’t mean that I can get to this perspective right away in every challenge. But with time I do and that’s when things begin to change for the better.
Focus: The Secret Weapon of Your Mind
I’ve learned the hard way that focusing on what I consider bad and continuing to view it as bad will generate a negative energetic state. I know that, whether I’ve consciously chosen it or not, any negative state separates me from my Infinite nature, Spirit. I suffer as a result of this mental separation because it blocks the ease and grace of Spirit moving through me.
Choosing Peace: From Dis-Ease to Well-being
I know this blockage stops the flow of ideas (the first currency of the Universe). I also know that by allowing this mentally created dis-ease to dominate for long, I will eventually experience disease(s) in my body. So I do my best to make a conscious choice to focus on whatever idea will bring me back to a state that allows ease and grace to flow.
Turning the Other Cheek: A Path to Peace
You can do the same thing too, my friend. It’s simply a matter of you choosing consciously to “turn the other cheek.” This is not so you can be slapped on the other cheek. Far from it. This is so that you can focus in a new direction, onto a new thought and vision that brings you peace. This peace will lead you to a future experience you’d prefer.
Surrender and Trust: Finding Strength in the Divine
There are times when all I can do is to think of God and let myself sink into the feeling of being held by that Love. I know that God is with me all the time and Its Love and power is far greater than my human nature thinking. This always does the trick for me, when I remember to do it.
I have to admit that I, just like you, are human. And sometimes I get stuck in my frustrations and suffering for longer than I’d like. However, it’s just a matter time before I bring my awareness to the moment and begin consciously choosing to align once again with love and God.
The Adventure of Choosing Consciously
Remember, Spirit is having us focus on choosing consciously today and it must be for a reason. One thing is for sure, you have the power when you choose consciouly. You have the power to choose to make today be a turning point day in your life. What’s not working in your life? In what part of your life would you benefit by choosing consciously to change? What would you love in your life?
Choose consciously, my friend, and let the adventure begin!
