How do you recognize if you’re walking the right Path?
How do I know if I am on the right path?
This is probably the most basic, yet most challenging question to ask. The answer is both amazingly simple, and yet fairly complicated.
Pathwalking is making choices about living life, in order to work to consciously create our personal reality as we want it to be. Rather than simply going along with life and letting whatever happens, happen; as we walk our chosen paths we strive to be present and aware. We don’t want to let life just occur, we are working on living life to its fullest.
There is always more than one path. That’s how the universe works. If consciousness creates reality, as this blog asserts, then we can choose virtually any path we might desire. As such, there is more than one “right” path for us.
It’s important to recognize that the idea of “right” is fairly loaded. Right is often the extreme opposite of wrong, but in this context right is a matter of feeling, desire, and drive. Further, today’s right choice could be wrong for us tomorrow.
I recognize that that’s pretty vague. This is because the specifics of what is right for me are not going to necessarily be right for you, or for anyone else for that matter. “Right” in this particular context is a matter of feeling, belief and faith.
How do I recognize the right path?
The short answer is that the right path will feel good. It will almost seem like its too easy, and the work you do along the right path feels less like work, and more like play. It’s surprisingly easy to lose track of time when you are on the right path, because you get so caught up in it you just take action because it’s what you need to do.
For example, when I am writing, and really getting into my work, whether it’s my blog or my fiction or even writing for business, I often just flow with it. Time loses meaning, and I come away from a project feeling complete, content, and like I wasn’t working at all, just doing what feels good to me.
I desire to be writing more frequently. I am driven to write, and that is how I am certain that this is the path that is right for me.
It feels good. It feels like it is what I am supposed to do. That is how I know my path is the right path. But to really be travelling upon that path, it’s important to believe and have faith.
What’s the difference between belief and faith?
In many respects these are similar concepts, but not in this context. How does this work, then? Belief is important to Pathwalking, because if you don’t believe that consciousness can create reality, and that you can choose your own destiny, your own path in life, then you are going to be incapable of living this way.
I believe that I can create the life I desire. I have made this work before, more than once. And that is where faith comes into play.
I believe in this…but I don’t necessarily have faith. I believe, in the abstract, but my faith in my own belief is open to scrutiny, questioned by my own skepticism. But more than that, what this boils down to is my faith in myself. I believe that consciousness creates reality, but I have no faith in myself to consciously create it.
If I am responsible for consciously creating my reality, then I need to have faith in myself. I am the only one who can make MY life what I want it to be. But if I lack faith in myself, what can I do?
How do you create faith in yourself?
When you believe in yourself, you believe you are capable of almost anything. We nearly all feel this way as children, but as we get older and we are exposed to certain “realities”, this fades. We can regain our ability to believe in abstracts, but after that we have to have faith – faith in ourselves.
Skepticism, cynicism, self-doubt, self-recrimination, second-guessing and self-deprecation are all born of a lack of faith. Despite what you might believe about conscious reality creation, you don’t have sufficient faith in yourself to achieve it. This is evident if your self-talk is frequently negative, such as I am no good; I am unimportant; I am fat; I am lazy; I fail more often than I succeed; if I don’t joke about myself everyone else will; and so on. When you speak ill of yourself, it shows a lack of faith in who you are capable of being.
You may not be who you want to be right now. That’s ok. One of the reasons to choose Pathwalking is to become the person you most want to be, even if that is not who you are now. To do that you have to think about it, feel it out, take inspired, intentional actions – and believe in the possibility; have faith in your ability to succeed. When it feels like you can conquer the world, and you believe in conscious reality creation and have faith in yourself, you will know that are on the right path for you.
Do you have faith in yourself and your ability to choose your own destiny?
This is the two-hundred eighty-fourth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for and my personal experiences with 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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