Make a choice

You have never, not for one moment, been off your path.
And you have no reason whatsoever to feel any embarrassment
or discomfort about where you are at this stage in your life.
You are powerfully on your path.
And you are just beginning the best part of your life.

Abraham-Hicks, San Francisco 7/28/07

I got this in my mail this week. The words just jumped out and hit me. How perfect is that?

I am exactly where I am supposed to be. There is nothing I should be doing. Only what I choose to. And whatever I choose to do that's ok. It still keeps me on my path. Powerfully on my path even.

Seems like a simple enough observation but its not always been this simple for me. Lately though, I have decided to be conscious in my life. Take more a driver's seat in what I do rather than just go with the usual knee-jerk reactions. Part of my whole unlearning process.

I find that I am rather surprised by what I choose to keep choosing. I think of myself as a rather positive person but it seems like I was spending a larger part of my life choosing to focus on the not so positive aspects of my life. From where I'm at now I know that nothing is inherently positive or negative, that's just the label that we choose to give to it. And a lot of the time we do not make these choices consciously. We just do it because we do it.

Taking time to choose to give a positive label to things was certainly not the done thing with me. I would get upset first then once I'm there in my upset place, (sometimes for a few moments other times for days) try to cheer myself up. I don't know why I felt the need to go there... you know... to that upset place first. I didn't really choose it, just did it because that's what people do. It's what you do when a so called negative thing happens. What I did anyway.

Can't believe the difference making a choice makes. It's a split second choice too. Something happens and before I react I think "Who says this is a bad thing?" What if it turns out great? And before I know it I'm blissing on with my day without skipping a beat. And after realising how effortless it can be to go through life without the whole positive-negative spiral thing going on I wonder why I didn't choose this sooner.

It's that simple. Just choose it. Whatever you want... and usually its just to be happy... choose that and let everything in your life fall in place around that. It's not always too easy at first. They're all those buts and shoulds flying around. Pay not attention to them and they'll gradually loose their hold on you. Don't worry if everything doesn't feel peachy or if you still find yourself in that upset place every so often. You're still on your path, still headed right to where you say you want to go. Just choose again and again and again and just keep choosing what you want and pretty soon you'll find that you have it.

Joy is our natural state of being and once we get there the current carries us with it and we just flow with it until we get to a point where we choose something else and we find ourselves struggling to move against the current. Well that's my experience anyway. Don't take my word for it. Try it yourself. Make a choice.