I’ve Written This Before
I’ve written this before – and will write it all again.
In pursuit of living my philosophy, I have written the same things over and over again.
Despite the fact I’ve written this before, I know that I will write it again. And that’s simply because it bears repeating.
This applies to the following ideas/notions/concepts:
- Consciousness creates reality
- Mindfulness is conscious awareness of your sensory input as well as your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions
- Change is the only constant in the Universe
- The only thing I can control is myself
- You choose positivity or negativity every day
- There is no One True Way
- There are always choices
- Self-encouragement is recognition of your empowerment
- This is an abundant Universe
- You have more power than you realize
For almost ten years, I’ve been exploring, expanding, and living my life philosophy. Every week, for almost 500 weeks, I’ve been sharing this. This means I’ve written all this before.
Yet there are numerous reasons we need to be reminded. And I need to be reminded.
It is important to me to be informed. I desire to know what’s going on in the world around me. Thus, I keep aware of politics, world issues, economic issues, and all manner of outside information.
But for the most part – this is not happy, useful, or good information. But it’s important to be aware of because I don’t live in a vacuum. I am one of almost 8 billion people on this planet, after all.
BUT – nobody except me is living MY life. Ergo, every day I choose what that looks like. Do I strive to consciously create my reality and be in control over myself? Or do I allow outside influences to upset, depress, and take me off my track?
Choices are always available
Because there is always going to be both good and bad, I accept that some days will simply suck. There will be horrid, no-good, awful days. But there will also be incredible, amazing, fantastic days, too.
If I allow one bad day to color the next day – then chances are that day will be bad, too. But if I acknowledge and recognize that I’ve had a bad day – and it is over – I open the next day to be something new.
To be fair – shit might go down that makes for another bad day. But I didn’t automatically set it up to be that way.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that so long as you are alive you have choices. Sure, they might be limited, and they might be between less-than-desirable options. But they are still there for every moment you are living.
False narratives, I’ve written before, tell us that this, that, or the thing are scarce, lacking, and generally unavailable. But because the Universe is abundant – this is a lie.
Yet sometimes that abundance isn’t obvious. It’s not right there, out in the open, and easy to see. But it is still there – you just might not yet be familiar with what it looks like.
When the things that you have no control over occur, what you do after is your choice to make. If you want to be fatalistic about it – that’s on you. But similarly, you can be optimistic if you so choose.
Of course – I’ve written all this before, too.
Why I’ve written this before – and will write it again
Repetition builds habit and memory. This is literal and metaphorical in its application.
I have been fencing for almost 30 years. Medieval rapier combat has been the only sport in which I’ve had true dedication and skill. At my best, I was attending 3 practices a week, one being nearly all drills and lessons rather than applied combat.
Every single practice, every week we repeated a given drill multiple times. But each repetition made the motion more natural and easier. It developed muscle memory.
Hence, when COVID-19 forced practice to end for over a year – as soon as I got to go at it again it was all there. The stances, the bladework, the movement – all of it. Not as refined, perhaps, but still there. And that is how muscle memory works.
This is why using affirmations and mantras work. Repeating the idea or concept over and over embeds it not just into your conscious mind – but your subconscious mind. Before you know it, a habit has developed.
My Pathwalking philosophy has evolved over the last 10 years. Yet the principles that drive it, though evolved, are the same. This is my life. Ergo, it is up to me to choose to live it, and in so doing live it as best I can and choose what that looks like.
I share this because I believe YOU have the same power. You may be a friend, or perhaps I don’t know you at all. Yet I still believe that YOU deserve the same empowerment that I deserve. Thus, I share it – because this is not for me alone. I believe the more of us who practice all these ideas I have shared, repeat and keep sharing – the better we ALL are and can be.
I’ve written this before to break the false narratives
In the United States, there is, at present, a debate about minimum wage. The federal minimum wage is insufficient for ANYONE to earn a living. Period, end of story.
Yet there are many, many reasons we’re given why it cannot be raised. Then, people who currently make what the proposed new minimum would be, take it as a personal affront. I do this job and its value is greater than that job – why should we be paid the same?
That’s what those opposed to raising the minimum wage want you to believe. Because the truth is not only should their job be of greater value – so should your job. With the increase in the minimum wage, your job’s value should increase, too.
There are ZERO reasons the heads of a corporation like Walmart should make more money individually than most people could spend in multiple lifetimes – while so many of their employees require assistance beyond their pay is insufficient to make ends meet.
Being empowered recognizes that ALL lives have value. Not in a selfish, my-life-is-better-and-worth-more-than-yours way (like the utterly tone-deaf All Lives Matter counter to Black Lives Matter) – but in recognizing equal value in every living being.
I’ve written this before – and will write it all again – because it’s important to be empowered. Nobody should have to struggle just to have food on the table, clothes on their back, medical care, and a home to live in. The more of us see that we are empowered – the more we spread empowerment.
Pathwalking will take different forms for every individual. But it’s a philosophy for anyone and everyone to use to live the best, fullest, most complete life that they can.
Not the first time, nor the last time
I’ve written this before and will write all of this again. Pathwalking, and my overall life philosophy, recognizes the following:
- Consciousness creates reality
- Mindfulness is conscious awareness of your sensory input as well as your thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions
- Change is the only constant in the Universe
- The only thing I can control is myself
- You choose positivity or negativity every day
- There is no One True Way
- There are always choices
- Self-encouragement is recognition of your empowerment
- This is an abundant Universe
- You have more power than you realize
These concepts provide the tools to let you decide, every day, how to choose the best course to live your life. Or not.
Because choice is the whole point. Choices and decisions made consciously can and will drive your life wherever you desire to.
What have you done recently that empowered you?
This is the four-hundred and ninety-fifth exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – mindfulness and walking along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. Additionally, I desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.
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