by Leiza Clark
Every instant of your existence emerges from the choices you make. Your choices about everything from breakfast food to major life decisions about love, career and forgiveness create the reality you experience. People fail to recognise this ability, and their choice enables them to determine their personal destiny.
Choice functions as the fundamental force that creates reality.
Your existence follows a purposeful sequence because you have made numerous decisions throughout your life. Your conscious decision-making enables you to transition from being a helpless spectator to becoming the master creator of your personal narrative. The brain functions as a dynamic system because neuroscience demonstrates that neuroplasticity enables us to transform established neural pathways. Your brain develops new neural pathways through purposeful decision making that leads to better emotional responses and healthier thinking patterns or behavioural habits.
The Time Between When Something Happens and Your Reaction Occurs
The space between external events and your reactions to them holds the key to your decision-making power. Your ability to make choices exists within this particular interval. Most people react automatically by repeating familiar emotional patterns without conscious thought. Your ability to pause and bring awareness to the space between stimulus and response allows you to take back control of your actions. The brief moment of pause allows you to select love instead of fear and to choose forgiveness instead of holding resentment, then to choose courage instead of doubt.
The Energy of Intention
The process of choosing involves more than mental activity because it also involves energetic forces. Your decisions based on clear intentions create outward effects that can transform both your inner state and attract new life experiences into your path. Your alignment with clear purpose and compassionate intentions makes you draw in experiences that match these qualities. Every decision you make functions as a seed that you plant into the realm of potential outcomes, and the quality of that seed will produce your future results.
Practical Ways to Harness the Power of Choice
Daily awareness practice helps you evaluate your decisions by asking which source drives your choices between fear or habit or possibility. Your choices become more powerful when you base them on awareness, regardless of their size.
Start your day by defining your inner direction through specific intentions that state your daily choices. Today, I choose patience. Today, I choose presence. Your subconscious mind will learn to follow your values through this basic practice of setting intentions.
The Pause technique helps you react less impulsively because it requires you to breathe slowly for three counts before taking action. The practice of breathing slowly creates an opportunity for wisdom to enter your decision-making process.
Take full responsibility for your life because your present situation results from all your previous decisions. The practice of taking responsibility leads to empowerment rather than self-blame. Your current situation resulted from previous choices, so you can use new decisions to create different outcomes.
Select joy in everyday moments because happiness emerges from your ability to discover positive aspects in the current moment.
Stepping Into Your Power
The ability to make choices grants you complete independence. Your life exists outside the boundaries of established routines and outside the influence of outside expectations. Every decision you make functions as a statement about your developing identity. Your conscious choices enable you to connect with your higher self, it possesses knowledge about peace and creativity and endless potential.
The essential daily inquiry you should make to yourself is about your present-day choices. Every action and word and thought during our lifetime creates consequences which we must accept according to Elizabeth Kubler Ross.