I choose to…OWN MY CHOICES
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week 02 pages 6-7
As a human being, you can easily have the experience
that life is happening to you.
You can just as easily have the experience that you are actively participating
as co-creator with life.
What makes the difference between these two experiences is the degree to which you acknowledge that the conditions of your life come primarily from the choices you make.
Even when life is so hard that the only choice you can acknowledge is that you choose to wake up and stay on the planet one more day,
you can own it and be responsible for it.
Most choices happen so subtly that they give you the impression of not having been chosen at all. If you slow down and notice just how many choices you actually make moment by moment, you will experience how free you really are…even in the midst of others’ choices
that have real impact on you.
Ownership has privileges; with it come power and peace to keep creating your life in the face of any circumstance.
In contrast, abdicating ownership of your choices
cuts off access to that power and peace,
leaving you helpless in every circumstance.
What’s really at stake is not what you choose
but that you own the choosing of it.
NEW PERSPECTIVE AND POSSIBILITY
In my experience, is life happening to me, or am I actively co-creating with life?
What choices have I made over the past twenty-four hours?
What choices have I made that have produced the current conditions of my life?
What possibilities become available to me as I fully own the choices I’ve made so far?
What do I choose now?
Remember to meditate on the passage and questions daily for 5-6 days as you create ways to practice this choice throughout the week. Notice what shifts and changes in your experience of the passage and questions each time you return to them after having practiced this choice in your life. After 5-6 days of practice, give yourself one or two days off before advancing to the next choice. Your capacity to retain and utilize this work requires that you give your brain time to integrate what you’ve experienced, and that integration takes place during periods of rest, recovery, and play. So focus and practice for five or six days, then rest and play for one or two days. And repeat.
May you prosper in every way!
Becky & TPL Team
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