Choice or No Choice

In this next little video series, we’re going to be talking about the power of choice.


What is choice? We’re making choices all day long, but we may not even realize it. In fact, a choice is only a choice if there’s something else we could choose. (We could have this or that.)


Unless we perceive at least two options in front of us, it may not feel like we have any choice at all. For a lot of people, that’s exactly how they feel in their lives. They get up, go to work, take care of their kids, take care of their parents, go to the grocery store, cook dinner, pay the bills. Mostly, they feel like they have no choice but to do those things.


But maybe they do! Maybe they have choices that they don’t even recognize that they have.


Choice is one of the most powerful things we have available to us. We can bring awareness to the places in our life where we may feel stuck, contracted, limited or constrained. We can bring the distinction of choice to give ourselves a new sense of aliveness and power. 


Eckhardt Tolle talks about this concept in The Power of Now. When we find ourselves in a situation in which we are suffering to some to degree or are unhappy, we have three choices:

  • We can speak up to change the situation

  • We can remove ourselves from the situation 

  • Or, we can accept it just as it is 


He says: You have to choose one of those, and you have to choose now.

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So, we’ll be looking at choice. Where are we making choices in our lives? Are those choices conscious? Or are we just going through the motions and maybe feeling like we have no choice at all. 


To begin, consider: where do you feel like you have no choice in your life? Maybe it’s some of the responsibilities that you have. List those out. At the top of a journal, write “No Choice” and simply list all the things you really feel like you have no choice but to do, take care of, or be responsible for.


As we go along, we’ll be evaluating those and seeing how we can bring a new sense of aliveness and power into those areas.


Alright, I’m looking forward to the conversation. See you next time!

Ashlie Woods