We want to talk about your choices today, and your decision making process, and offer a perspective that might help when making decisions.
Some of this may sound radical, but we invite you to try it on through your own experiments, and see if it resonates.
First of all, making decisions cognitively is very limited, because your cognition is subject to many biases.
You simply do not know what the future holds, but sometimes you attempt to anticipate it anyway.
You attempt to turn the unknown into the known, which is impossible.
And you do that from the frame of your past, meaning that how you you see your future is informed, filtered, distorted by your past.
Yes, you can predict and anticipate some things, but it is limiting to anticipate everything.
Make room for the unknown.
You may be evaluating whether to attend a workshop based on your perceived utility, but the most impactful thing from the workshop could be meeting your partner, or making a really great friend. And you could meet them if you don’t go and run into them when grocery shopping in your hometown instead.
Our point is this: You cannot predict and anticipate all the consequences, first, second, third order and beyond, that any of your choices have. Relax into that.
Our second point is: Use your entire Being to make decisions.
Your body has an intelligence that far surpasses your intellect.
That means that you might feel attracted to a particular choice or repelled by another. And your mind probably can’t understand why. And trying to understand what cannot be understood (at this time) is where you get stuck in your decision-making process.
This is part of the big arc of transformation, of going beyond the mind, that we have been talking about.
You are in the process of awakening to your greater intelligence. Simply put, your mind is limited in how much information it can process, and how it can process it.
Your body, your heart, your gut, have a greater range, a different range. Not necessarily better than the intellect, but different. We want you to realize how to use both, and know how to use them well, and appropriately. That is wisdom and intelligence.
If you want a model, look at it this way. A computer is comprised of several different chips. The CPU, central processing unit, is good at processing certain kinds of information.
It can handle the computations for graphics, but it is not efficient in that regard. That’s why there is a GPU, graphics processing unit, for the graphics.
What you experience when you use your computer is the collaboration of those (and many other chips) working hand in hand.
You can see your mind as one of those chips, great at some tasks and inefficient or entirely incapable of performing others.
You have the hardware within you for a greater, fuller experience, but you must be aware of it and learn how to use it.
Like learning any skill, it can be overwhelming, and confusing in the beginning. Learning to use your intuition isn’t easy. You make mistakes, and they are part of the process.
Learning is a process of experimentation and observation and evolution.
Some of you have already mastered this. This message is for those who have an overactive intellect and are so dominated by it that there isn’t space or trust for the other parts to come online.
It is not about making the mind wrong and shutting it down. That doesn’t work. What you resist, persists.
It is about adding to it. Expanding your tools.
We will talk about how to do this at a future time.
For now, we just wanted to remind you that it is possible, and it is worth it.