A conscious choice is made from the heart. Then you have no doubt that your choice is correct.
But how do you do this when your head is full of thoughts, and you are either in the past or the future? We answer in this article.
Working with Thoughts
There is always a choice. In the past, we essentially did not have the ability to choose as we do now. Back then, we read, got inspired, and followed that path.
Now, the possibility of choice is talked about everywhere. All that remains is to hear and let it into your heart, rather than sitting in your head with questions like: how to choose, how to do it from the heart, and so on.
Questions are good. They are needed so you can break away from duality. But when questions linger in your head for a long time, you only analyze, digest, and nothing more. However, when the mental conversation turns off, you can simply be in a state.
This is very difficult to explain to someone who has never felt it—when there are truly no thoughts. But as soon as an idea appears, you go and do it. You do not ponder, analyze, doubt, or consider the consequences.
An idea appears, you catch a response in your heart, go, and act. If a thought appears but there is no response, you do nothing; you simply continue to remain in that state—in contemplation.
It does not matter how a thought comes into your head. What matters is whether you dwell on that thought or not. This is purely a matter of your willful disciplinary effort—not to think, not to chew over that thought. Then the thought comes in and goes out just as easily.
Most people are accustomed to reacting to the actions and opinions of others. Therefore, it is very difficult to refocus on yourself—very difficult to speak from your own perspective (what I want, how I react to a situation, what I like).
See also: Synergy of Heart and Mind. Three Conditions for Their Union
The Path of Choice Lies Through the Present
When working with thoughts, it is important to understand – you should not dig into the past. Because a simple mechanism is at work: a thought appears in you, an emotion rises behind it (here, your wounded part most often responds), you add your vast imagination to it, and as a result, you multiply what you do not want many times over.
Thanks to this colossal fusion of “thought+emotion+imagination+energy,” you don’t even need real enemies. With this combination, you harm yourself.
Every time you dive into the past to work something out, you get stuck in that past, you drown in it – especially when emotions rise. By letting your thoughts drift into the past, you fall out of the present.
See also: Why keep returning to the past?
In the structure where the first floor is duality, pain, suffering, a huge number of thoughts – and the second is an attempt to take responsibility upon yourself and rise upward, the “upward” is the total present.
Every person has their own ideas about what the present is. Even within 20 minutes – right now you are one person, 10 minutes ago you were another, in 10 minutes you will be yet another. In each of these moments, there is its own present.
You are either in the moment, or you are escaping into the past – oh, how great it was, or oh, how bad it was. Despite the fact that escaping into the past happens mentally, you – right now – evoke real emotions with it.
There is a small group of people who escape into the future in the same way. They do not like the present, they are disappointed in it, so they prefer to live in fantasies.
But miracles only happen in the present. Only in the present are you truly able to manage your life. Only in the present does conscious choice operate. Only in the present does the freedom to create and use the law of free will and choice appear. For others, this law also operates, but with limitations.
Conscious choice is a reality that is different in terms of values and worldview. To find yourself in it, you need to break free from the shackles of the mind and switch to what your heart feels.
For your heart to be able to feel, it needs to be opened. And to open it, you first need to forgive yourself.
Stop berating and criticizing yourself, constantly finding fault with yourself. This blocks your access upward.
Do you agree that conscious choice only operates in the present? Under what other conditions does conscious choice operate, what do you think?
The article is based on a broadcast from the #couch_conversation section “Mission: Impossible”