Everyone has the ability to make decisions and choices in life,
no matter the obstacles.
We all live in this limited world bound by so many rules and
regulations. Often feeling as if we have
no real choice on a lot of the things we would like to experience in life. There seems to be always something holding us
back from our dreams and our desires.
What is this component that makes us feel so confined? Is it the rules of life that we as people
have chosen to conform to? Or is it just
a perception that we all have within the constructs of our mind? One thing is for sure we all have the ability
to make choices even when we feel so restricted. Even in the most restricting of situations we
can makes choices that will inevitably decide our fate.
What is the defining factor of this choice that we all have the ability
to utilize? To begin looking at choice
it is first important to remember where most of our conceptualization of life
comes from. We are all born into the world through the guidance of our parents
in our former years, or another person to whom delivers rules to life that are
given to us for self protection. We all
at some stage participate in school or if not are taught by elders in the ways
of living life in accordance to the structure of the society that we live
in. The further we get on in life our
responsibilities begin to create more and more rules in order to conform to,
and by middle age we are bound by our own rules and expectations.
To realise that life’s rules are created by our upbringing and our
connection to society, is the first stepping stone to understanding
choice. Choice that is now in our mind
is based on how we have decided to, over the years, be seen within the group
and the society that we belong. It would
almost be crazy to emphasis the point that all these things were chosen by the
individual alone. However this
foundational fact is the truth and although many people would not enjoy
admitting it, they always had the power to choose for themselves the path that
they have decided to pursue.
Limitation in our world is only based on the physical constraints that
we ourselves create or are presented to us from birth. These limitations are based on the body alone
and the physical environment to which we live in. The matter environment is limited and
although at times we would like to be able to fly and float in the sky with our
bodies alone, some things just are not possible at this stage in our evolution,
without means of physical vehicles. This
is a set fact that the physical environment is limiting in the possibilities
that are bound up in the world that it is connected to.
However choice comes from a different place. Choice comes from the mind, a place that has
unlimited possibility, and can dream all concepts up in a moments thought. It is the thoughts that we have that are
choice based, and it is from these thoughts that our decisions for life are
made. When we come to a point in our
lives where a choice needs to be made, it is within our minds that we deliver
the verdict, where we weight up the negative and positive attributes to our
decisions.
The mind has no barriers; we can think what we like without even people
knowing. We can dream we are flying
without the constraints of the physical matter world. In the mind anything is possible, even to
play out the desires that we want through the playing of movies that we can
participate in as the main character.
This kind of dreaming is natural and comes to us as a child. We play in the grounds at school or in the
cubby house with our friends and makes up stories of adventures where we can be
what we want and achieve all the goals that we desire.
It is not until further on in our life that we realise how much
limitation is confining us, when we leave school and participate in the real
world of survival. We have to make a
living in order to make enough money to eat and have a roof over our head, to
bring up families and possibly to run business and the like. This all takes up so much of our time, with
us often questioning the value of the experience and choices that we made. We feel always a restriction knowing that in
order to change our lives these choices have consequences and that our value of
life was already blown away in the wind.
Value for life takes risks and most importantly a decision by the
individual to make choices that brings things to their life to what they wish
or desire.
We are often so bound up in our world to realise that these choices are
still within our grasp. That choice was
something we were born with and still have the ability to deliver. As long as we have a
mind in which to think we have choice in this world. Choice to get up in the morning, brush our
teeth, go to school, go to work or to even live or die. It is the foundation of our life and without
choice nothing would have a foundation of existence. Without choice, life would not exist. Life is here because of the values we
originally created for ourselves, choices made from long ago.
Choice comes from inside us and no matter the circumstances in our lives
we have the power to go one way or the other at any time that we decide. No matter the consequences, the power to
choose can never be taken from us, even when we are bound and gagged we have the
choice to move and break free, or to just lie there without bothering to
care. No one can take this power away
from us, no matter how much we believe in manipulation and mind control. Each and every one of us has our own unique
and personal mind in which to think and reason, no matter what gets drummed
into our heads, we are still the decider of our own fate. We choose in the end how we will participate
in our experiences.
These experiences are also not limiting in the fact that our choice is
what brought us to this point in our life.
If we walk down a street and find a dead end, it is because of our
original choice to walk that path that we have to come to that point. Our original choices bring us to the
limitation of the physical that we have now. The choices we make in the future will bring
us new experiences and pathways that will lead us in a new direction, no matter
which way it follows.
All these choices are based
within our minds perception. We have the
ability to choose without the influences of others. We do not have their thoughts within our
head; their words are only delivered in the physical. The thoughts we have inside our head are our
own, each thought deciding on our fate, balancing up our goals and
desires. Choice is free, it comes from
the mind, it can never be bound, and it can never fly away. It is free and individual, unique and real,
it can transform the physical world, and lead to desires and dreams , everything
that we wish to fulfil.
By Stacey T Pollock
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