The Power of Choice

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Making a choice is an exercise of incredible power. You might at first think that we mean that there is a lot of power in making the right choice, but we would suggest that the power of choice lies in the realization that all choices are ultimately right.
 
Understanding dualism, understanding the nature of living a human existence, is understanding that you will be constantly confronted by the either/or scenario. Basically, what happens in these either/or scenarios is that both sides get incredibly loaded up with all sorts of things and unconsciously the “ledger sheet” process is begun.
 
You have choice A and choice B and then you come up with an enormous number of concepts on which to compare these two options. Some pros go on one side of the ledger, and some cons go on the other side of the ledger, and the lists are endless That's what goes on unconsciously, and the fact is you'll never be able to resolve dualism with dualism. You'll never be able to resolve A or B by contrasting A to B because eventually you will have to recognize that A and B cannot exist without each other. It doesn't matter what A is or what B is, and the moment you acknowledge the interdependency of A and B, you are set free from the unconscious compulsion to pick the “right” one.
 
A and B are necessarily equal. Every choice leads to an infinity of possible outcomes. You cannot have a better experience with one than the other. You're going to have your experience with your choice no matter what it is. That is all you can have, just your experience with your choice.
 
Choices are quite arbitrary. The idea that one choice is better or worse than another, or easier, harder, or more important than another, is often fabricated out of fear of making the choice. If we were to tell you that good choices can be made without too much consideration of the possibilities, this often brings up a lot of resistance. You might believe that life is about making the right choices and not making wrong ones. You might think that you must evaluate all choices carefully. We would not suggest that this advice is wrong, only that this advice can lead you into a state of fear as your thinking plummets into a nerve-racking attempt to decide between two possibilities. And looking at your options is almost always a speculation of future events—a fantasy projection.
 
 We suggest that you settle into the here and now and make the choice with complete abandon. All choices are ultimately choices between two equals. You can get past the fear that you will choose something that brings you a bad outcome. Ultimately your experience of the outcome will be what you make of it. With this understanding, a choice between two perceived outcomes is a choice between two equivalents. You'll experience what you'll experience: your presence, your gratitude, your heart open, your spirit, in either situation if you allow that to be your intention, rather than an intention of a right choice. The deepest intention you hold is the best place from which to make a choice. If you superficially set the intention to “choose the right thing,” you will find yourself having a superficial experience. If what lies much deeper within you is to experience everything with the greatest compassion and wisdom you are, then allow that intention to be present when ever you are in the process of choice making. So if you find yourself paralyzed, because you are in a total conundrum about a choice, see the big picture, and understand that the feeling of being stuck between two choices is a picturing of duality. The resolution of duality is stepping completely out of it, not diving more deeply into it, which is what happens when you try to make choices based on comparison.
 
Tear up the ledger sheet. Stop thinking about what could be the result of this choice, and what could happen with another choice. It's all speculation, and bottom-line you're just going to experience you. Your expression of life is the you that you will experience in the moment of the experience. Keep it all very simple. Let the choices flow into one another with confidence that all of you is present making the choices. Becoming more aligned with One Life Awareness allows you to recognize how simple it is to let go of old limiting beliefs around the possibility that you could make choices that are wrong.
 
As you become more and more comfortable in One Life Awareness, you will stop obsessing about things in your life. A choice won’t become overwhelming. You will still focus, and be engaged in meaningful and joyful choice making, and the experience will come to match your intention naturally. You won’t be overwhelmed unless you get stuck in believing the power of choice is about making the right choice. If you open up beyond your choices into One Life Awareness, you will actually feel less overwhelmed. The more expanded you are, the smaller choices become in your totality of One Life Awareness.
 
It is simply training the mind, not to gain dominion over your thoughts, but to allow all thoughts to just be whatever they are without making them substantial. You are energy, your thoughts, your mind, all is energy. Training the mind is not controlling the mind, or conquering the thoughts, but allowing them to simply be. There is always a you that is not invested in any of the thoughts. This you has power. This you has the power to choose from what we call a deeper place—One Life Awareness. In One Life Awareness all thoughts are equal, therefore all choices are equal. Look deeply within, notice your thoughts, accept them for what they are--just thoughts. This place we call the deepest part of you, the you that can access other points of view, is the place of One Life, an indescribable yet simple place where all choices are equal.
 
There is a lot of power in choice making. Make all your choices from the deepest place, from the you that you know is loved, and all choices will be loving choices. Make your choices not from a ledger sheet that you have studied with an intense comparing and contrasting of speculations of results, but from an open-hearted, expansive, flowing you that is present, right here and right now, willing to choose with abandon, confident in the rightness of all that is, letting go of thinking you create “rightness” in favor of knowing you are simply One Life Awareness expressing what is.