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This planet of free will offers an unlimited
and even a
terrifying possibility of choices.
Choice, what a neglected and over looked
little word that has so many
staggering implications. Most people spend
their entire lives making all
their decisions based on what someone else
has told them they should do,
on what they think they should do based on
bad information or on what they
merely feel like doing. The choices executed
based on any of these
parameters are ultimately causing most of
mankind's greatest problems.
There is basically one empirical test that
should be applied to all choices,
whatever choice is made it must harm no
thing. It is starting to even be
seen how our choices are affecting things
even on a global scale. We
ignore the simplest of choices we make
everyday which have an immediate effect on
everyone around us and ourselves. The
imperative that must be understood is that
we are responsible for ourselves, as long as
we can blame someone else or some thing we
can excuse anything.
One of the most insidious things that robs
spirit is that of institutional or
organizational control over the individual.
When any person acting against
their conscience or spirit because of any
other individual or group, the
result can create many negative
consequences. If the instructions or orders
are not beneficial to Everyone you are going
to wind up losing.
Another Native American Shaman passed this
bit of Indian philosophy
along, When another asks you to do something
even if it makes sense and
yet it doesn't feel right in your gut or in
your heart, fold your arms and say,
"Me no want to". Many times so
much of what we do is something we do for
others who simply don't want to take the
time and trouble to do it
themselves. In our nice guy people pleasing
we spend too much time
walking someone else's path instead of our
own. Give yourself permission
to say no, with no apologies or reasons.
Learning to claim your power to make your
own decisions and becoming completely
responsible for them is the beginning of
change for all.
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