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Choosing To Do vs. Having To Do |
It's interesting how each time I am getting closer to writing this column, a small idea, subject or insight simply pops up, and ends up being rather more closely scrutinised for a wider audience. Just the other day a friend was faced with the choice of doing something, or having to do it
It seems such a minor thing, but really, there is such a huge
difference that even life and death would not be an exaggeration! There
are several ways of looking at this, but the energetic viewpoint takes
priority. To use a familiar quote of mine, "The metaphysical always
precedes the physical." To choose to do something carries a very
different energy from having to do it. In many ways it boils down to
either you choose to do it, or you are forced to do it. To choose to do
something is a response to life, but if you are forced to do it, there
will be a reaction within you.
Choosing and responding come from the moment and are in harmony with
life. Choosing creates a positive responsive factor, invoking
willingness and enthusiasm, so that whatever it is that you are doing
will go easily and well. You create a willing focus that sees a job to
be done. From an energetic level, everything will flow in your favour,
both physically and mentally, even emotionally, and with this inner
harmony you will have insights into how to perform a difficult task, or
a smooth efficiency if the task is more familiar.
Being forced to perform a task suggests an initial unwillingness, a
dislike of whatever it is. This creates an energy blockage, manifesting
as obstacles and difficulty. As things go 'wrong' with the task, so the
inner reaction gets stronger, often resulting in anger. Reaction comes
from the negativity of your past, from old patterns of procrastination,
of reluctance, of fear and prejudices. With an invoked energy of
reluctance, just like Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong will
go wrong at the worst possible moment. And like the proverbial Murphy,
you will blame everything and everybody. . . except yourself!
On an energetic level it becomes obvious that as energetic Beings we
are responsible for the field of energy in which we live and operate in
our physical reality. It should, therefore, be glaringly obvious that
our preoccupation with blame is as ridiculous as it is pointless. Let's
say that because of a certain inner reluctance to do something, you
have been putting it off for days, even weeks. Throughout the period of
delay and procrastination, inadvertently you are creating an
ever-growing field of resistant energy, meaning your own energy
creation will resist every effort in your life for smooth running and
well-being. We call this 'a run of bad luck!' By the time it finally
reaches the point of having to do the despised or dreaded task, you
will have created maximum resistance and the greatest opportunity for
error or failure.
This scenario fits snugly in the seldom understood new age expression,
"We each create our own reality." Intellectually we know that creation
is wholistic, but seldom do we understand the full import of this. The
truth is we are involved in the creation of our reality on a physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual level, all simultaneously, in every
moment of our lives. Choosing to or having to is a very powerful factor
in all this. Quite apart from the ambiguity of our overall life - which
is seldom easy for a person who has no insight into the nature of
energy to grasp - there is the far more obvious health indicator of
inner discord.
Illness is always due to a disturbance in our consciousness. For most
people this disturbance is from our daily resistance to the many levels
of life. For a more spiritually enlightened person this illness can be
the outworking of an old karmic pattern that the person has no
intellectual knowledge of. Such a person will use the illness
creatively to heal the disturbance from the past by not opposing the
illness, but rather by allowing it to fully express and thus release
its old pattern of energetic disturbance. And if, to reach a successful
outcome, this means death of the physical body, this is an acceptable
outcome. Usually, within this greater embrace of life, a so-called
healing takes place.
Suppose a person (and this is common) lives much of their life from the
'having to do' energy, as opposed to willingly choosing to perform all
the many pleasant and not so pleasant tasks of daily life. Sadly, many
people grow up this way, following the energetic patterns of their
parents . . . indeed, it is difficult not to do this! This inner
resistance to life usually results in illness, based in sheer
inner-weariness. People who live this way do not enjoy life, seeing
life as a burden to be endured rather than a joy to be lived. Do you
see what I am saying? Either you choose to live life joyfully, or by
default you have to live life because you are in it. Do you see how
great the difference is, how hugely it affects the quality and outcome
of your life?
Inner-weariness is a self-created field of negative energy that has a
huge emotional effect on you. Prolonged emotional discord will
eventually manifest as severe physical disturbance. One of the most
common of these is cancer. Have you ever wondered why a cancer cure is
always described as remission, not cure? Whatever the official reason
may be, the reality is simple; if cancer invokes such a change in your
consciousness that you cast out the old pattern of mental and emotional
discord that created cancer, then, if the physical damage is not too
great, you can be permanently cured, healed. The old paradigm will be
finished, and you can enter new parameters of life and living.
All too often your body responds to the physical treatment and the
cancer cells are killed off, and the body goes into remission. The
effect of physical discord has been treated and healed, but the cause
of inner discord remains untouched, untreated. Usually remission lasts
for as long as it takes the old pattern of inner discord to reassert
itself in the person's life. 'Having to' is a seldom realised factor
within human health. A constant willingness as opposed to a constant
reluctance is so easily overlooked in matters of health. Even a
willingness to do the pleasant tasks, with a reluctance for all others,
can lead to an eventual breakdown in health. Life is an every-moment
occupation, not a pick and choose your moments of willing
participation.
You can, of course, indulge in the more obvious pick and choose. You
can choose to read this, look at your life, and make intelligent
changes for your own well-being. Equally, you can choose to read this,
dismiss it and do nothing. You and I are making such choices moment by
moment, mostly without a true conscious focus. When you willingly
embrace life, choosing to do what needs to be done, you are making
subconscious choices that complement and support your overall health
and well-being. If you are a having to do it type of person, you also
are making the subconscious choices of inner resistance and reluctance,
creating the emotional discord which always accompanies such
subconscious rumblings.
It is not that we are difficult and complex Beings, quite the contrary,
we are holistic and fully involved Beings on a voyage of discovery and
creation. If there is any problem at all in this, it is our lack of
awareness in the fact that every moment of our lives we are creating
every moment of our lives.
In Light and Love - by choice!
Michael
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