Making
Choices
“Our
lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.”
Wayne
Dyer
Wayne
Dyer was a motivational and self-help speaker, author, and early guide in
the “raise your consciousness” movement. He wrote books about how to change
your life by changing the way you think. One of his books, The Erroneous Zones,
has sold over 100-million copies to date. He wrote things like, “When you
change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.” And
turned cliches on their heads—instead of that old hack, “I’ll believe it when I
see it,” he said, “You’ll see it when you believe it.” So many of his
ideas are now part of collective consciousness, but they were new ways of
thinking back in the eighties and nineties.
It’s
interesting to me that we have had so many spiritual, consciousness guides
(Freud, Jung, Maslow, Dyer, Chopra, Myss, Yogananda, just to name a few) for as long as we
have—more than one hundred years—and we can talk the talk, but their teachings
don’t seem to have made it to ground zero for many of us. The overwhelming
message from all of them is “you are what you think you are; you create your
world and your life by the way you think.” Even the ancient Book of Proverbs
said, “For as he thinks in his heart, so he is.” (23:7) Our life choices
are not something someone has done to us and they aren’t based upon whether we
grew up rich or poor or in between. It’s all about how we respond to all of
that—how we deal with adversity, how we think about ourselves, and how we
choose to operate in society.
There
was a post on Facebook this week by a woman saying that she wasn’t going to get
the covid vaccine because it was the government’s way of inserting a computer
tracking chip into every American. We are surrounded by conspiracy theories
that have absolutely no connection to reality, yet millions of people believe
them. So, for them they are true. They have created a paranoid reality in which
the government is trying to control them by way of a vaccine shot. Meanwhile
people are dying by the hundreds as Covid 19 continues to spread.
When we
engage in paranoia, the whole world seems threatening. Nothing has changed, but
to us, it has—because the way we think changes it for us. In other words, we
choose how we walk through this earth-school. Perhaps some of us are here to
experience paranoia and make decisions based on it. But there is also the possibility
of changing the way we think. We can choose to change our way of seeing the
world, change the way we feel afraid all the time, by allowing some light to
shine in. We can stop listening to the voices of fear and tune in to the voices
of hope. We can get off websites that incite us to anger and fill us with
paranoid nonsense. We can look outside at this beautiful spring and feel
grateful and positive and excited for the future. The choice is ours to make.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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