The Gift of Choice...

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This week I received an email from one of the websites I subscribe to. It was titled:

“While we watch the world going down the tubes, the key question is whether you are going with it!”

I had to pause, firstly at the jarring statement, and secondly because it drove home a point I have been pondering…that is how easily we can become numb to actions that are disconcerting and how quickly we can come to label those actions as “normal”.

Over the years I have met many people who wish to learn about the enneagram in an attempt to find comfort for their sense of lostness or their need to find their place in the world. When these people realize that the biggest challenge of this work is staying awake to their reactivity, their response is usually…. “that’s hard”… My response is always …“yes it is”.

Our world is meeting incredible challenges right now. Do we feel that it is all lost? I do not. We can so easily be swept into the undercurrent of fear, anger and superficiality - so it can seem that the world is literally going “down the tubes”.

When the dark emotions of the world’s leaders are swirling around us, will we allow ourselves to be swept away with their sense of lostness, or, will we reconnect to who we are and ground ourselves in the purest parts of our being?

All the support and wisdom we require is right here within us. It has been here since we took our first breaths. All we are required to do is slow down…step away from the TV, the newspapers, and the panicked nay-sayers for a while… and reconnect to “ME”. We all need to choose OUR OWN way of meeting the world.

This choice I am speaking of is not just a one-time response. Gurdjieff considered it a way of life. Choice meets us at every turn and can sometimes take us to places that separate us from our friends and loved ones. But our choices makes us unique. We are individuals and different from everyone else on the planet. Our freedom to choose is one of our greatest gifts.

So…

Will we choose to react to that judgement?
Will we choose to take on that fearful response?
Will we choose to add energy to that drama?

These are all choices we can make every day.

As you go about making your choices this month, remember that we are all supported. Nature, the Stars, God, the Creator, our Ancestors…they are all rooting for us. We must also remember our need for a supportive community--people who can listen to us, strive to understand us, and witness our efforts. We just need to reach out for it.

Hoping you are finding your community of like-minded people to support you and also hoping you are choosing to not follow the unconscious elements of the world that are trying to lead you “down the tubes”.

Dale
Inspired Enneagram