Bad
Choices
“Trust
yourself—your body and your soul—to know what's right for you.”
Melody
Beattie (Journey to the Heart, page 294)
I've made some bad
choices in my life. At least, I've made some choices that had seriously unfortunate consequences. The truth is, I usually made those choices
in spite of my better judgment. Frequently, there was a voice inside
me warning that this might not be the best thing to do, best person
to be with, best job for me. I made the choice to override those
internal warnings—those blinking yellow lights behind my eyes—that
said, “Stop! Go no further! This is not right for you.” I ignored
the warnings because there was something I wanted. Some glittering
object like “the ring of power” (Tolkien) lured me and I didn't
listen to my body and my soul.
I wonder whether you can
relate. Bad choices are inherent to being human. We're going to make
some mistakes—some small, some large, and we will experience the
consequences of our choices. After one of those bad decisions, we
always question ourselves—at least, I do. I ask myself a million
times, “What was I thinking? Why didn't I see that coming?” The
voice in my head says, “You did know better. Remember, I warned you
and you ignored me.” We have the capacity within to know
better—energetically, our bodies pick up on small clues, little
characteristics, but our spin doctor head talks us into thinking it's
just our imagination. There is always that shiny object that that
beckons to us like a barker at the county fair. “ Come on! Give it
a try. You, too, can win this one-of-a-kind...whatever.”
We must, if we want to
avoid the pitfalls of our bad choices, learn to listen with our whole
selves. Tune in to your gut, to your heart; intuition resides a bit
lower on the body than the cerebral cortex. And, mistakes are not the
worst things to make if we learn the lesson the consequences bring.
The most important thing is to check in with all of you—your body,
your soul and your brain. When all of them are in agreement, it's
hard to go wrong.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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