Pathwalking 262
With the start of this new year, I want to begin working on a new aspect of Pathwalking.
Tentatively, this will be called Pathwalking in Practice.
Pathwalking in Practice is setting up actionable items in order to better work on conscious reality creation.
What is an actionable item? The things you do to actually walk the path you are choosing.
Everything we choose begins at the same point. There is a thought, an idea, an inspiration. Something you read opens up a channel in your mind; someone says something that starts the wheels in your head turning; you are just doing whatever you are doing, maybe driving a car or reading a book or dozing off to sleep or eating or showering or watching TV, and you have a thought. Whenever it comes, and whatever it is, when you get this concept to work on, it begins with thought.
Thought is the beginning. Grand and glorious or small and unremarkable, the thought is the beginning.
Many of our thoughts are fairly trivial and commonplace and action requires very little else. I should get sushi for lunch or I should go to bed now or I want coffee or I need to turn left here and so on and so forth. These require very little of anything else for action to come of them.
There are slightly more complex thoughts people have that require something further before they move to action. She’s cute, I should ask her out or Maybe I should take a different route to practice or I should apply for that promotion at work or I want to invest in that stock or I want to tell him I love him and such. There are some people who need little else beyond these thoughts to take action, but for more of us they do require additional thought, and more importantly feeling.
Feeling is the next step. Despite the attempts of many to feel little or nothing, it takes feeling to turn a thought into action. Some people just go with their gut, and act. They can handle those slightly more complex, but not too complex thoughts, and just go with it. Some people, though, need to feel it out. Not just give it further thought, but feeling as to the result. If I ask her out and she says no, how will I feel? What if she says yes, how will that make me feel? Don’t be impulsive, consider the consequences! You are now working from feeling, before you decide to take action. This is not a bad thing, it is part of the process to turn a thought into a thing.
Which brings us to the more complex concepts which start as thought, and almost certainly require feeling before we take action. I think I want to ask her to marry me or I want to move to Portugal and start my life all over or I want to open my own coffee shop or I want to quit my job and run for office. These things usually cannot be done instantly, they require time and process, so as such you have the thought, you move on to feel it out, and then you take action to make it happen.
As simple as the idea of consciously creating your reality by applying feeling and intentional action to thought seems, for most of us we need more than that. The complexity of our society and our day-to-day lives mostly make this seem like overly-simplistic, hippy-dippy, new-agey, mumbo jumbo pie-in-the-sky rose colored grade A bullshit. Hard not to hear that skeptical voice in your head scoff, Consciousness Creates Reality? Yeah, right…so where the hell is my flying car and the million dollars I want to see in my bank account?
Yet Consciousness DOES Create Reality. It’s not always obvious, and there are certainly events that happen that make us thoroughly question the truth of this, but it doesn’t change it. Further, even if you cannot fully wrap your mind around this notion, I believe that everyone has exactly THREE choices for how to live life.
What three choices are those? I believe they are: 1) Let life live you. This is what most people do with their lives. They go with the flow, what happens, happens, and from time to time they see awesomeness occur, but they seldom directly effect it. 2) Curl up in a ball and wait for death. This can be literal, but more often this is the people who expect nothing but bad things to happen or they make excuses for everything or spend life in prayer for an afterlife, rather than bothering to live this one. 3) Live the life you desire. You choose your experiences, you strive to get more out of life, you take actions and make choices and fight to have the life you most desire.
Yes, I am generalizing, and yes, we all shift between these three notions from time to time, but I still maintain and firmly believe that one of these concepts usually dominates. Some people find perfect contentedness in any of these three ways of living, and I would not begrudge them that. If you are satisfied with the life you are living, more power to you! But if, like me, you want to live the life you most desire, and its different from what you currently are experiencing, it requires more choices and decisions and intentional actions.
This is what Pathwalking is all about. I have spent the past five years working out this self-help philosophy concept. There have been two-hundred sixty-two different posts, espousing various ideas, concepts, ways and means for choosing our own destinies. Now I want to take this further, and present you with tools to help traverse your path as I employ them in traveling along my own.
I will be working to further Pathwalking in Practice, because I think both you and I will benefit from a toolkit we can use to consciously create the reality we most want from life.
Are you living the life you most want to live?
This is the two-hundred sixty-second entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas and my personal experiences in walking along the path of life. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way.
Thank you for joining me. Feel free to re-blog and share.
The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.
If you enjoy Pathwalking, you may also want to read my Five Easy Steps to Change the World for the Better.
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