Saturday, April 20, 2013

Honoring Your Choices Leads to Peace Within Yourself



Honoring Your Choices Leads to Peace Within Yourself

Each person has a different path.  Depending on your choices, you create scenarios of what you want to learn in this life.    

You have to go within to determine the right action for yourself.   

Different perceptions and experiences lead to different beliefs of what is right or true for you in all aspects of your life.

There are obvious truths like don’t kill or steal.  However, if it’s in self defense or self preservation maybe it’s right.   

You have to be okay with your action in the moment and be willing to live with the outcome of your actions.   

Knowing  you did the best you could in the moment, honoring your own choices so that you can be at peace with you, leads to peace within yourself. 

Perhaps at one point in your life you need to learn self acceptance, and at another point in your life you have to learn to deliberately choose for yourself a path that is easier in a worldly sense.  This is where wisdom comes in, realizing it’s about you and your choices, and what outcomes you believe are right for you. 

Integrating what the head knows to be true along with what the heart knows to be true is most important.  The logic is in the faculties of the mind and the feelings are in the heart.  Integrate both in decision making to make the best choice for you. 

The mind and the heart know it’s not right to physically hurt others.  If you punch someone that’s not right action; however, if you did it in self defense it is right.  

If you randomly hurt others, just because you were angry etc., it does not make it right and you are actually hurting yourself.  Your heart can’t be lied to.  You will be physically constricting the energy within yourself and in some way your physical body will be suffer the repercussions of your actions.  

 If your action was in self defense your heart knows you had to protect you. 

Perhaps you are in a place where you need to learn to just choose from the mind to make an appropriate decision, like don’t steal, it leads to jail.  Maybe you need to sacrifice the judgment on stealing food if you were feeding others.  Making the decision from the heart would is an entirely different approach.  

The wisdom would be in integrating the two; however, you need to judge the right action for yourself in the moment, honor you self in it and be at peace with the consequences of your actions.  Think it out.  

Others will always have an opinion, you don’t need to convince them yours is right, unless you are confronting a jury. You need to maintain peace within you. 

The heart choices tend to require more faith as each person cannot explain their heart as it makes no logical sense.  The head choices require more will power  - knowing the deliberate action you must take for what you believe is the right action.   

Integrating the two and realizing both are important creates more balance.  Are you needing to learn surrender from your head or your heart, or integration of both?  Neither one side nor the other side is right, they will both lead to different results. 

What can you live with and what do you hold important to you?  This is what will lead to peace in the outcome.  What is right for you in the moment is what matters and that you learn from that choice how to honor yourself and your place of being.

Bottom line; enjoy your journey and what you are learning.   

Relax into your decisions for you, you are the only thinker in your universe that can control your thoughts.  Your actions result in the outcome of your reality.  


Dr. Samantha Joseph

If you are having difficulty returning to peace, or needing help in healing, please contact me for assistance. 

Phone:
316-685-1581


10 comments:

  1. This reminds me of the "listen to your heart or your mind".... in either case- I agree with you enjoy the journey!

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    1. Denys, enjoy your journey, continue to integrate your head and heart.

      Dr. Samantha Joseph

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  2. This, to me, is the explanation of the origin of dis-ease. When the head (thoughts) and heart (emotions- or soul) are out of alignment, the body pops a symptom. It's a warning: "listen, and work it out". You can't do two opposite things at the same time!
    When you hate your body, and wish you looked differently, it's stressful. The body feels unsafe, and will often gain more weight to "protect" itself. Stress will prevent permanent weight loss as well.
    And, the other way to heal yourself is with forgiveness- to others, and to yourself!
    wonderful article!

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    1. This is the origin of disease, which is dis-ease. The symptoms are warnings for us to pay attention. You've absolutely seen the play with weight, now, it's in every part of our lives. When I work with someone I look for the issue behind the disease, if it's hating your body, the question is why and it leads to so many different interpretations for different people.

      You're so on track!!! Kudos to you!! Your work with these people is great! Thanks Lianda for reading and getting the message I'm hear to convey:

      "Consciously Disperse Dis-Ease to Avoid or Dissolve Disease" - Dr. Samantha Joseph

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  3. Very wel written! We should al listen to ourselves (and our intuition) more, also when making smaller choices.

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    1. Thanks Linda! Absolutely in every part of your life, follow that inner guidance.

      Dr. Samantha Joseph

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  4. This is something that I am still trying to practice. As someone who most of them time did what others wanted, I am now learning to follow my heart and do what I want to do. Thanks for the reminder.

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    1. Good job Adrienne, use your wisdom and integrate both head and heart so that it is a wise choice for you in each situation. Sometimes we have to sacrifice something for the betterment of all, but there is still a good feeling within that. If the good feeling isn't there, don't do it as it is not right within you and you'll have resentment.

      Best wishes on your journey.

      Dr. Samantha Joseph

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  5. One of my favourite quotations is from Hamlet, 'to thine own self be true,' and I believe this is a heart/head thing - we have to take notice of both to know what is truly right. One of my biggest revelations was learning that I could control my thoughts and then being able to ask the question, 'what do I choose?' Having a choice is real freedom but we only have that choice when we know that we do. Hope that makes sense! Glad I visited, thanks.

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    1. Harriet, thanks for contributing. Lets keep those wonderful revelations in our lives coming.

      Dr. Samantha Joseph

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