A Daily Look Within – Day 5
There is something a little ironic about life in that we can sometimes lose sight of our right to choose. In a way, we become unmindful of our self and lose our spiritual consciousness. We can get lost in a depression of experience and forget that we have a spiritual side that needs attention and can lift us back up. We can be so bogged down by material things and distracted by energetic experiences that happen TO us that we forget that we have the power to make choose something different or better FOR our self. We can even experience great suffering and forget that we have the simply wonderful and empowering choice of NOT suffering anymore and figuring out how to make that happen. All of this (-) experience can accumulate, and it is up to us to turn that into something else to counteract it: something (+). In fact, the more (+) you can make it, the better!
Contemplation Piece: If you take a look at nature and the way it changes all the time, it is a great teacher in the power of choice. You may not think that other forms of life have a lot of choice, but they do. They are very closely tied to the weather cycles and other changes that happen to our world. Even the elements–earth, air, fire, and water–are exhibits of various forms of choice; provided we look at them that way. Usually we view things based on what they cannot do, which is a very (-) and unsupportive mind set. However, if we turn that around to its more (+) side, we are left with the more imaginative view that anything is, indeed, possible.
