“By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.” — Gary Zukav
Make no mistake, we all choose our thoughts. Those emotional triggers that set in motion your motivational intent is real, and definitely not imagined. This sequence of lightening-fast decisions made in our consciousness, determines the quality of the light that encapsulates our existence. We’d like to think that select individuals have pre-determined effects on our lives, when in truth we have been the initiating catalyst for our fellow man responding to what we have projected toward them. If we are fully conscious of our thoughts, actions, intent, reaction, response and motivation toward others, our experiences reflect those choices throughout our entire lives.
How then do we go about extracting the skill set, to implement what is necessary for each of us to realize what our thoughts and emotions dictate? Where does this ability begin, and how do we recognize it? Sometimes it takes an event that may shock us into conscious awareness, or it can be as subtle as the illumination of moonlight in silent stillness. Many of us are so immersed in the minutiae of “too busy-ness” and important matters, that we simply miss what the consequences of this repeated pattern will dictate. In the Science of Mind these words may clarify what many of us experience . . . “So preoccupied are they with presumably important matters that they fail to perceive the consequences of their own mattering. Their mind-set is akin to that of a person when asked, ‘What is Mind?’ reportedly replied, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ and when next asked, ‘What is matter?’ replied, ‘Never mind.’ You may believe this quote is simply a play on words, however, the only play going on here, is that which you are experiencing every minute of every day, consciously . . . and it matters.
Distractions will always be there, as will excuses, lack of time, interest, desire, concern or need. To become the light in another individual’s life, you must set into motion that present awareness of light in your own. Once that consciousness becomes a functioning tool in your arsenal of skills . . . miracles will happen. We chart our own course once we awaken to the possibility and consciously embrace the unknown. In his book ” The Circle Maker,” Mark Batterson suggests the following . . . “Your response to those promptings will make you or break you. It may seem unsafe or insane, but if you stay in the boat, you’ll never walk on water.” JLR