Life is Never a Singular Path
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You are empowered to choose the path/paths you desire for you.
Over the course of your life, you are going to have different goals at different times. Some are small goals, others are larger and have a wider impact. All of them are significant to you.
There will be occasions when you are on more than one path at the same time. For example: developing a relationship while working on a degree program.
Having goals is important, and the majority of your paths aim at achieving them. But the paths themselves are equally important because we are always traversing them.
Everybody is on some path or other, though they may not recognize it as such. Even if you work a boring, monotonous job, you are on a path (even if it feels a lot like a treadmill or a hamster wheel).
Conscious reality creation is the process of recognizing the paths you would like to take in life. Rather than just letting life live you, choosing a path means you are choosing the life you want to live.
How does life live you? Think of this in terms of riding a boat of some sort down a river. If you just float along, the current will carry you. You will get downstream, but at the pace of the current alone…and you may hit obstacles, rocks and rapids along the way that will interfere with your journey.
Taking control or influence is steering around rocks and obstacles, as well as maneuvering through the rapids to avoid capsizing the boat.
EVERYONE is capable of this. Sure, it can feel difficult, and even at times impossible. But you have the power to choose paths and live your life as you most desire to.
Mindfulness provides insight
A large part of this comes from being present, and being present involves being aware of what you are thinking and feeling. This is mindfulness.
Mindfulness is not just a hooky-spooky idea attached to things like mantras, affirmations, and meditation. Mindfulness is a much easier practice. All it takes is the following questions, or questions similar to these:
- What am I thinking?
- How am I feeling?
- What am I feeling?
- Why am I doing what I am doing?
- What is my intention?
Being mindful doesn’t just involve considering these ideas, it requires ASKING these questions of yourself.
It is all too easy to get lost in the background noise of our society. Spend any time online on social media and you will be inundated with negativity, messages of fear, lack, and scarcity, and the troubles and woes of the world. When you are not aware of what you are thinking and feeling, and allow your subconscious to take the controls, it’s very easy to get diverted off a given path.
Being mindful is how you take the controls for yourself. When you know what you are thinking and feeling you can see where you are going.
For some people, this idea is utterly terrifying. Becoming mindful feels like you have to be more accountable for yourself. Truth is, you do…but that’s not a bad thing.
Being accountable, in particular for yourself, lets you work with trauma and negativity from understanding. Instead of blindly dealing with whatever, you can see what is really going on.
I know this can be scary. But believe me, what you fear you will find is most often not as scary as the fear of it is.
You are worthy and deserving of choosing your path
Another issue our modern society tends to present is matters of entitlement, privilege, and how we measure success. We are shown these examples that can be wildly overwhelming, and the bar can appear to be far too high for you and me to reach.
This is not the truth. You do not need to come from a class of people, a specific portion of society, nor any other artifice of the world at large. You are already worthy and deserving of choosing whatever path you want to take in your life.
Yes, it is important to recognize that you cannot create reality from a vacuum. A lot of people take umbrage with the idea of the Law of Attraction and conscious reality creation because of the way some people apply it. The Secret’s Ask, Believe, Receive model, for example, implies all you have to do is wish hard enough and you will get what you are desiring. What it fails to address is that action will be required – not just action for the sake of action, but intentional action.
Nothing comes from nothing, period. Everything has a point of origin to it. To create anything at all, even intangibles for your life’s paths, you need to have material to work from. You cannot become a famous actor by wishing it to be so. It will require working at the craft, interviewing and auditioning for roles, and studying how to become the best actor you can.
You CAN start out believing you WILL achieve the fame you desire. But it will take intentional actions and work to get you there.
When you do the work, you are worthy and deserving of achieving any goal you set your mind to.
Be flexible
Paths will change. You may learn things along the way that alter the path you are on or cause you to leave one path for another. Further, you might, in the process of traversing one path, discover you also need to take another along the way. For example: I am working on books to publish. Additionally, I am also writing blogs. Two separate paths, one goal – earn my living as a writer.
Additionally, you may discover in the process of walking a given path that, wait, I hate this. You might find that what you thought you wanted you actually do not. That’s perfectly ok because no goal is ever written in stone.
Life is all about choices and decisions. You are capable of creating amazing things, no matter your circumstances. Because life is never a singular path, the number of options is only limited by you. The Universe is abundant, and you can change your life in whatever ways makes you feel powerful, positive, happy, and fulfilled. You are worthy and deserving of whatever goal you may have at the end of a given path.
What paths are you on right now?
This is the three-hundred eighty-seventh entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the 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 and empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.
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