By Aine Belton
Choice can open the door to a whole new life, not only at cross-roads on your path, but in each moment, giving you access to the boundless palate with which to paint your life.
You can choose a new action, thought or feeling at any time, and birth an entirely new reality as a result.
Every choice has an impact, to a greater or lesser extent – each one like a pebble dropped in a pond; the ripples, the ramifications, spreading out into your future and other areas of your life.
Even one small choice made today that shifts your life by a minor degree can take you to an entirely different future than the one you are heading, opening doors to a myriad of new horizons, opportunities, situations, potentials and states of being.
I’ve no doubt you can remember choices you made weeks, months or years ago that have significantly changed who and where you are right now. Perhaps you can also think of choices you didn’t make and wonder where your life may have ended up, for better or worse, if you had.
The good news with choice is, you can make a new one in any moment!
Each moment is ripe with a cornucopia of possibility.”
Owning choice – its availability, your capacity to make it, and its capacity to change your life – brings freedom and empowerment.
There’s no ‘right or wrong’ choice, but there may be choices that are more true and optimum for you.
Further below are some questions to assist in making optimum choices.
First I want to take a quick look at love and imagination for optimizing choice
Choice sourced in love can only ever win”
You may mess up, you may make a ‘mistake’, but if your heart is in the right place, not only will making a mistake be far less likely, the outcome of that choice can still be positive if the energy behind it is.
Love opens you to optimum choices. Are you in a loving state when making decisions? When you are feeling loving towards yourself and others you open to brighter choices for the greater good of all.
Love helps you get clearer about how true a choice is, i.e. how aligned it is to your heart, and separates the chaff from the wheat, protecting you from ego agendas.
The state you are in, the thoughts and feelings you are experiencing, all have a big impact on the choices you make.
Love beckons always the most beautiful becoming”
Another key ally for choice is imagination. When looking at choices to make in your life, be sure to use your imagination and explore the expanse of possibilities available.
Open to a range of options and potentials, even those you may think are unlikely possibilities from your current perspectives or situation. Broaden your vision so you have a wide range of choices available to you. Doing so helps you make more optimum empowered ones.
What choice could you make today that would change your life for the better this week/month/year?
Below are some questions to help elicit optimum choices, whether you are at a cross-roads in your life or just want to ponder on how to use this powerful tool ever-available to you.
Questions for Optimum Choices! >>
The below questions can also shine light on possible underlying intentions, the potential impact of your choice, the circumference of those available, and what ones may be most serving.
Is this a loving choice?
Does this choice make my heart sing?
Does this choice reflect the best of who I am, who I desire to be, and the future I wish to create?
Is this choice in alignment with my principles?
Does this take me closer to my dreams, goals, and heart’s desires?
Is this a fear choice?
Is this a ‘safe choice’ keeping me from going beyond my comfort zone?
Is this someone else’s choice?
Which ‘me’ is choosing this? Is it my child, adolescent, ego or mature adult self?
Is this choice coming from negative beliefs or stories?
Is this a winner’s choice?
Does my intuition respond positively to this choice?
Is this a true choice of personal desire, or one of sacrifice or obligation?
Is this an informed choice?
What is the possible short and long-term impact of this choice? Does one cancel out the merit of the other? (For example, is your choice worth the short-term pleasure if it leads to future pain?)
Is this choice aligned to my brightest future?
What is the impact of this choice on myself and others?
Don’t worry if you aren’t clear on answers to all these questions, they are shared to aid reflection. Simply going through them may help you become clearer about choices, bring to light possible blind-spots, open you to new perspectives in relation to your choice, and shed light on possible limiting agendas that may be impacting your choices.
Perhaps you have no choice in mind at present, in which case, ponder on this question once again:
What choice could you make today that would change your life for the better this week/month/year ahead? There may be several
Any thoughts do share!
Much love,
Aine Belton
