The Approach You Take to Anything and Everything is Your Choice
You decide how you approach life, the universe, and everything.
Let’s be blunt here. We live in some crazy, distressing, utterly uncertain times. How this is where we are is completely infuriating and scary. Getting out of this current collective consciousness is going to take a lot of work on the part of each of us, individually.
You can’t think, feel, intend, or act for anyone else. Period. The only person you can control is yourself. You alone can know, choose, and change what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, your intentions, if your approach is positive or negative, and your actions.
To be fair, you might be in an environment and working with specific circumstances that create limitations for your options. However, no matter what that might look like, your inner dialogue, your mindset/headspace/psyche self, can be altered, changed, and otherwise directed by you.
One of the ways to start examining where you are on an emotional, mental, and spiritual level is to look at your approach.
What angle are you choosing to take?
Some people default to a negative approach. They see before them problems, issues, unfairness, and impossibility along any path. And there might, in truth, be all of the above. However, you choose if you approach them fatalistically or encouragingly.
Some people see things from a positive approach. They see before them solutions, inspirations, equity, and possibilities along given paths. Even when they are not literal or apparent, they still seek, find, and/or create them.
Of course, some people attempt a neutral approach. However, between your internal beliefs, values, habits, and memories – as well as external influencers, opinions, expectations, and more – neutrality tends to be impossible to maintain. The initial intention is bound to get swayed due to random happenstances and circumstances from within and without.
However, you have a choice. You can pick the angle and approach you take to everything. It doesn’t matter if it’s tangible or intangible; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or a combination of some or all the above; you get to choose your approach.
This, however, can be difficult for a lot of different reasons.
Your approach is your choice, but…
Spend any time online, scrolling social media, or watching TV, and you find yourself being drowned in a sea of information. You can’t help but be rolled under a wave of bad things happening to good people, the increasing lack of kindness, compassion, and empathy, and worse. What’s more, you’re inundated with messages that self-care, doing anything that puts you first, or the like, is selfish.
What this fails to address is that you need to fill your tank, take stock of yourself, and replenish your health, wellness, and wellbeing. Like a car without gas, when you run out of fuel, you go nowhere.
When you are aware, you can see more clearly who, what, where, how, and why you are. If this is unsatisfactory, you can then make new choices and decisions to change any of these factors.
It’s important to recognize that you might have outside matters limiting and impacting what you can do. But nobody can limit, control, or choose and decide your inner mindset/headspace/psyche self. Ergo, your thoughts, feelings, actions, intentions, and approach. You, and only you, can alter and control this.
The positivity or negativity of your approach is your choice. However, you might meet resistance in two ways. From without – if people think you’re being unrealistic or ignoring real-world issues (that you can’t do anything about). And from within, if you think you’re being selfish or ignoring real-world issues (that you can’t do anything about).
There’s a reason why non-toxic positivity in this instance matters. Because positivity empowers you.
Empowering yourself
I find it utterly stunning how there is a whole anti-woke movement out there. How does anyone miss that not “woke” – as in awake and aware – means asleep at the switch? As in being disempowered and ceding control to others?
Here’s the thing – nobody can empower you but yourself. While people can show you options, give you ideas, and hold doors for you on any given path in life, you, and you alone, can choose to use them. And thus to be empowered.
One way to do this is by choosing a nontoxic, positive approach to what you do. You can choose and decide to come at things from angles of potential, possibility, hope, and excitement. Or something along that line that uses fewer buzzwords or whatever.
Choosing your approach is part of empowering yourself. Recognizing this opens you to it. Acknowledging it helps you to make use of it. From there, you can choose and decide how you approach anything, be it tangible or intangible.
Individual empowerment is the key to changing the narrative and altering the collective consciousness for the better. Your approach can be a guide for this. But all change, even to the collective consciousness, must start in you and me.
Choosing what approach you take to anything and everything isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing active conscious awareness (mindfulness) of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that you can use your choices and decisions to choose the positivity or negativity of your approach to anything tangible or intangible, you create a myriad of potential, possibilities, and options. Knowing that you can make choices and decisions for your approach, and use that to guide your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and actions, opens you to taking what control of your life experience you can.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself, here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, it can spread to those around you and empower them as well. That is an amazing conduit to help reason to overcome fear in the collective consciousness.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the six-hundred-fifteenth (615) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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