At any given moment, you can choose a perception that broadens your horizon and creates new possibilities. A choice without action remains a wish: decide, trust, act.
Foreword
This guide describes how you can joyfully direct your life. Its starting point is becoming aware of and more broadly applying free will.
This text offers an elementary explanation. Further documentation is amply available. The principles behind this guide are set out in The Theory of Conscious Choosing and The Philosophy of Infinity.
This knowledge is based on personal findings and channelled material.1
Freeing the Will
Free will?
Free will works according to the principle decide and act. The concept is perfect in theory. Nevertheless, we are faced with outcomes that do not meet our expectations, and with events in which we seemingly have no part. Effective free will therefore seems a delusion at first sight, or at best severely limited.
However, this is a superficial conclusion. If we carefully examine our existence, it follows that it is impossible in principle that something simply happens to us.2 But what then is the explanation for our unexpected manifestations?
Discord
Every choice expresses the totality of your beliefs.3 Some support the chosen direction, others oppose it. Many beliefs remain out of sight, and many choices are automatic responses that we do not recognize as choices.4 That does not have to be a problem, as long as you take responsibility for your own experience.
When you genuinely see yourself as the determining factor, understanding your own choices is the only thing that is relevant. You gain that insight by looking at what you feel, think, and do.5
Know thyself
When feeling, thinking, and doing support the same direction, you experience no resistance. An uncomfortable feeling can reveal that beliefs are working against each other.6 The greater the discord, the stronger the signal.
If you act without acknowledging the signal, you carry that discord into your choice, and so into the outcome. By examining your interest or objection, you gain more information about what is in the way.7 This awareness of your motivation gives insight into how your choice, and with it your experience, comes about.
Acceptance
As long as you resist something, you keep its influence alive. This also applies to circumstances we regard as fixed and disapprove of as injustice, obstruction, or lack.8 When you accept what is, resistance can fall away and other possibilities come into view.9 What you have acknowledged but no longer feed with attention becomes irrelevant to the direction you choose now.
Acceptance therefore means that you do not attach an absolute value judgement to a situation. You do not have to like it or understand it; your personal preference remains.10 It is what it is, and it does not have to change first. In this way you can set aside an expectation.11 What you release releases you: this creates room for change.
Trust
No matter how paradoxical or simple it may seem: that acceptance is the key to lifting every barrier.12 Without struggle, feeling, thinking, and doing can support the same direction. We experience that state as trust, and trust makes an effective choice possible.
Trust is an unconditional expression of free will and translates into the path of least resistance towards your intention.13 Even if you have no idea what that route should look like in practice. When you choose a direction without giving attention to countless particulars or fixing in advance how it will unfold, room opens up for that path.
Express yourself
You purposefully develop possibilities by making deliberate choices and exercising patience in trust.14 Choosing happens nowhere but now. Everything you do carries forward. Every new choice, however small it seems, changes the direction; repetition turns it into a path.
By being alert to resistance and choosing a different perception15 where needed, you can stay on course. Fitting building blocks present themselves, and you experience more and more inspiration, clarity, freedom, and joy.
Nothing is impossible.
- Including that of Elias, Abraham Hicks, and Bashar. The personal findings stem from the experience described in The Realisation of an Extraordinary Self-Image.↩︎
- Having a part in it does not mean being to blame. Nothing stands outside the whole, and what chooses is that whole itself, from one vantage point; so what happens to us does not come from outside. See The Philosophy of Infinity.↩︎
- See The Theory of Conscious Choosing.↩︎
- A reaction seems to happen to you; a response is an answer, even when it comes by itself. Developed in The Deep End: The Swerve.↩︎
- See the diagram of feeling, thinking, and doing.↩︎
- Uncomfortable feelings and reactions (caused by discounting): doubt, reluctance, compulsion, restlessness, dissatisfaction, defending, comparing, irritation, frustration, a sense of injustice, anger, fear, powerlessness, etc. Choosing a joyful direction, too, can feel uncomfortable.↩︎
- Focusing is a method that connects directly to this.↩︎
- What is fixed is often fixed in words: ‘that’s just how I am’. Developed in The Deep End: Language.↩︎
- Acceptance and surrender (letting go of the need to control) differ from, for example, giving up, denying, or tolerating, in which the experienced obstacle remains the determining factor in what you do or leave undone.↩︎
- For practical support, see acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness, among others.↩︎
- Projecting worries is daydreaming against yourself: the same imagination, aimed at what you do not want. What needs no immediate care and does not feel right, you can let rest. The now writes — what do you want to write? Developed in The Deep End: Time.↩︎
- A barrier is resistance you yourself keep in place; that is why acceptance can lift it. Acceptance is actively not doing: consciously not forcing — not judging, criticizing, correcting, defending, justifying, compensating, controlling, or anticipating. You do not have to do anything, and sometimes doing nothing is the choice that clears the way.↩︎
- Everything you want is downstream: the direction in which your intention can unfold without inner resistance. Developed in The Deep End: Time.↩︎
- Patience here is self-affirming: a direction you do not doubt affirms itself — the change is you. Patience stands in opposition to passive waiting, where you continue to seek change outside of yourself. Passive waiting, too, is a choice: for a course determined by conflicting influences. Developed in The Deep End: Necessity.↩︎
- Perception is not only how you look at things but also how you choose. ‘That’s just how I am’ and ‘that’s how I have done it so far’ are about the same thing; only the second leaves another choice open.↩︎