How to Make Personal Choices

This planet of free will offers an unlimited and even a terrifying possibility of choices.

"Choice", what a neglected and over-looked little word, a 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 are basically two empirical tests that should be applied to all choices:

1. Your choice should raise your energies.

Ask, "What do I do next?" Options appear and you mbase your decision on the option that makes you 'feel the best'; that raises your energies. If you make a mistake, that's ok... again ask 'What do I do next?" and again make the decision that raises your energies. Keep doing this and a) you will get on track in your life, and b) your energies will be raised.

2. Whatever choice is made it must do 'minimal' or no harm to others and yourself.

The imperative in making a choice is always that of raising your energies and being responsible for the consquences. Minimising harm is a strategy overlaying that responsibility and decision making action.

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One of the most insidious things that robs spirit is that of institutional or organizational control over the individual. When any person acts against their conscience or spirit because of any other individual or group, the result can create many negative consequences, not least being the lowering your energy level.

A 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' world 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.

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Learning to claim your power to make your own decisions and becoming completely responsible for them is the beginning of a rich and lifelong journey towards wisdom and self satisfaction.