I would like to share an experience I had a while back that made me realise just how powerful our choices can be.
I was in London for the weekend to attend the Esoteric Developers Women’s Group, a group that explores what it is like to live as a woman in today’s society. The group presents Women’s Health from a different and non-imposing perspective where taking responsibility for our own wellbeing and our choices is part of the key topics presented.
As I left my hotel in the morning I noticed it was very warm and humid outside. I had my whole life struggled with humidity, it made me go warm headed, sweaty and really uncomfortable. I would say I was extraordinarily sensitive to it and it has always had a huge impact on my wellbeing.
So my first thought was “Oh! this is going to be a sticky day”. The next moment I wondered “where did that thought come from?” To be honest it felt like a bit of a curse! As if at that moment I purposely chose/demanded of myself to step into a world of well-known discomfort. I could feel how it automatically made me go into hardening my body, as well as feeling a subtle but nagging anxiousness. I could literally feel how my body braced itself to make it through the discomfort.
By the time I got to the event, this profound realisation (the fact that I actually had activated the discomfort myself by choosing an old and very negative spiraling thought pattern) made me feel very uncomfortable (so double discomfort at this point…).
And I acknowledged that I AM NOT the discomfort. I am the precious woman that left the hotel a few minutes earlier feeling truly lovely! What I realised was how up until this point I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger.
So, there I was, having realised and acknowledged this self-made setup, and I could either choose to keep myself trapped in that crippling pattern or I could choose differently: which was to stay empowered and connect back with myself and the loveliness that I felt in my body before I chose to comply to this old pattern.
I chose the second option.
In order to truly connect back with my body and not make this a mind thing, I chose to go for a few minutes walk down the Hyde Park promenade. Walking is for me one of the major ways to bring myself back to me and my body when I find myself hooked in by the mind, by emotions or by anything coming from outside of me. In this particular case I was walking with acceptance, as taught by Serge Benhayon.
When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.
It’s a feeling of simplicity and grace.
Instead of staying trapped in the old pattern of reacting to the physical discomfort and hence hugely magnifying it, I allowed myself to not only connect to who I truly am but also with that, connecting to everyone and everything around me equally.
Did the discomfort change? – Completely!
It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated.
The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.
How can something so incredibly uncomfortable not only change, but turn into something completely different so easily??
The answer is simple – THE POWER OF CHOICE.
Forever and deeply inspired by the Esoteric Women’s Health as well as the entire work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
By Eva Rygg, Norway
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
Reading this blog reminded me that we simply have a choice as to which way we want to take life to be. This statement confirmed it, ‘that I AM NOT the discomfort’ that we are not identified by it, even though some people identify themselves by those ailments.
We are more then this and it is the willingness to make that choice is the key. Once we make that choice, it requires commitment and consistency and the rest is taken care off.
This statement applies to anything, ‘The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed’. When we loose ourselves in the reaction, then we are in the issue. If we stay present or connected to ourselves then, the issue stays outside of our bodies and we don’t become absorbed in it. A marked difference.
Consider what our lives would look like if we lived from this and, how we respond to any situations. Wouldn’t our lives then be more enriched and joyous? I feel so…
Eva, I also love how you have shared about the walking being a tool that you use to support yourself back to being all of you – movement and walking in particular is super powerful even though it is such a simple thing to do and inexpensive at that too! I too love using this to support myself but I admit that I do forget how easily accessible it is to us and I do not use it often enough – so this is a fantastic reminder for me! Thank you!
Yes a great reminder that a simple walk can bring us back. It is a stop moment to reconnect to every body part without picking up the phone and calling another. It’s a check in point as to where we are in ourselves and this can be done anywhere, in other words within an area that allows you to walk.
There is also a choice to go for a walk or not go for a walk. One allows the opportunity to re-connect, the other allows you to remain in the issue. They’re both choices offered continually.
The simple choice to allow a thought to have control over us or not is a powerful process which of course requires an awareness of how we are thinking all of the time so that we can catch these moments as needed. Awareness awareness awareness. And of course awareness of our movements is important too as these will of course affect our thoughts.
Choices are indeed very powerful and with each choice comes a consequence that then teaches us much about responsibility – a word we often shy away from but in fact is the key to our own growth and evolution.
We don’t have to be stuck in the rut of our patterns of reactions, we can choose to be who we are whatever the weather of event that is blowing our way.
And, it is our choice as Eva showed in this blog, ‘having realised and acknowledged this self-made setup, and I could either choose to keep myself trapped in that crippling pattern or I could choose differently: which was to stay empowered and connect back with myself and the loveliness that I felt in my body before I chose to comply to this old pattern.’
It’s so true – when we don’t make a choice, we keep ourselves trapped in the pattern repeating itself over and over and over and over. Even when it is very uncomfortable, there’s something very comforting in familiarity as it does not ask us to stop or change.
This morning I wake up exhausted, stub my toe and other things go ‘wrong’. But I stopped myself and said it doesn’t HAVE to be this way today. Yes I am exhausted but I don’t HAVE to make it worse by being negative about it.
Life lived from the inside out does not allow the outer to interfere. It is when that connection with ourselves is left that any wild thought can intrude. How simply and graceful that reunion can be as you share here.
Your blog highlights the power we hold in the movements we make, to either react or simply respond to life. Thank you Eva.
We can choose to walk to connect with our body as Eva chose, ‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’
There does come a time when we have to make the choice to let go of old perceptions of ourselves and be willing to accept that there is more to us than we what we have run with for lord knows how long.
To accept and then surrender to simplicity and grace is the way to be with ourselves and to not go in reaction to what is outside of us and not in our control to change.
This we should learn from young onwards: that we are not the product of our environment.
It is very liberating and empowering to realise and feel that we are not our thoughts and that our thoughts in fact are a response to the quality of energy we have aligned to. When our body and being is aligned to our Soul our thoughts signify the honouring of this as an expression of love and truth.
This is indeed a very sobering realisation – for sometimes we can have thoughts drop in that are not supportive and loving and instead of being critical of ourselves for having such thoughts. It is exposing of our movements and hence our alignment and can be a great clue to us that we need to move and adjust how we are so that the true source of energy can flow through us unopposed.
We make ourselves so dependant of the outside world, meanwhile how we feel can be entirely detached from what is going on around us. And that is the beauty that we can bring to this world, to be ourself and bring this in full to everything we do. Only this will truly change the world.
I love coming back to the simplicity of this blog and being reminded of how powerful our choices are, we can either experience misery or magnificence it is all up to us and the quality of our movements.
We are powerful, and as you say Anna, it is up to us and our choices, how we choose to move, ‘Instead of staying trapped in the old pattern of reacting to the physical discomfort and hence hugely magnifying it, I allowed myself to not only connect to who I truly am but also with that, connecting to everyone and everything around me equally.’
Doesn’t this demonstrate that we are one hundred percent in control of the direction our lives go in? How many times do we have a bad day or a bad moment where we feel uncomfortable or whatever and by virtue of not choosing to change it we are choosing to stay in it. I think we massively under-estimate the power we have to change things.
Well said Meg – in fact considering it like this is rather confronting as it shows the masterminds we are to have terrible or amazing days all engineered by our very own hands so to speak. We have a choice and it it through these choices that we learn and then learn some more, build consistency and grow.
It makes no sense that the world carries on whilst we all lack the love in our lives ; in our living ways. It is like God’s walking life as UnGod’s. That would equally make no sense too. We are loving beings, we just have chosen to let go of that innate beingness and create something different — that we all can observe, is loveless. Time for a change. Creation is not it, it has to come from inside us – our Love, that is always of co-creation with God.
Everything we give energy to magnifies itself. It is interesting to observe the same situation handled in different ways and how this completely changes our experience of it.
So let us give energy to love, and allow that to magnify, not to discomfort, or what is not love, ‘I acknowledged that I AM NOT the discomfort. I am the precious woman that left the hotel a few minutes earlier feeling truly lovely! What I realised was how up until this point I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger.’
We are very powerful ‘creators’, though we have a choice each moment and with every movement to create hell or heaven so to speak.
Swimming in discomfort is a whole body choice of moving in disassociation from ourselves.
This really exposes our willingness to have issues and discomfort! Because we are the masters of our own life, even though it might need a consistent different choice, we can turn everything around by choice.
Consistent is a key word here, I think often we think making a choice once is enough – it’s a great start but I find choices need to be made consistently and rarely maintain themselves as a one-off decision.
If we create every situation and every discomfort and struggle, then I wonder what is possible if we stop focusing and putting effort into what’s wrong and put the same amount of effort into forging a new, incredibly loving, incredibly steady way forward?
Appreciation is very unifying…
We have the choice to feed the non-supportive thoughts that keep our bodies hard and tense OR to let them go and open our wings to bring our amazingness wherever we go. It’s up to us.
I love reading your experience Eva, it feels very empowering. How life-changing walking with acceptance of ALL of us can be, this includes the beauty, the grace, the simplicity, the pure gorgeousness of who we really are…no matter what’s going on outside we can return to ourselves in such a simple way. There is no greater choice that makes me feel more blessed and truly joyful than this.
Very awesome Eva. I remember when I first reconnected back to my Soul (essence) and returned to my path of healing / discarding and catching those thoughts that I had always run with as if it was me. It was great to feel me nominating and renuniciating that they were not me.
A great reminder to choose quality first and foremost and then all our next choices follow in line – thank you.
That is a great sharing Eva – how we can mentally lock ourselves into a set-up because we default to this. But what you have shared is the possibility of approaching something differently and knowing that the environment can be the same but that we are always changing.
I like the terminology you have used HM
“how we can mentally lock ourselves into a set-up because we default to this.”
What I don’t feel we understand is just how many default programs are running our bodies, we think we are okay but actually we have been preprogramed to live a certain way without out ever knowing it in some cases. To the point where we will defend what we know in our minds which could be completely different if we lived from our bodies.
I agree a wonderful example of the ‘power of choice’ we can choose how we respond to life and the quality of the thoughts we entertain. Love it.
I just read a quote by Serge Benhayon, that one choice leads to the quality of the next moment, and this blog is a great reminder we are never “stuck” in our choices as we sometimes like to think we are, and that every choice has the potential to liberate and empower us from whatever we are stuck in and start us back on the road of rediscovering what is possible through our moment to moment choices.
Before choice comes movement, we move in accordance to the energy we have aligned to, and this energy gives us the array of choices available under its impulse. So alignment is what creates life.
That is our power of choice Eva, we can set ourselves free from the imprisonments as long as we are honest and willing to let go of them… Change.
Love it. Love it deeply as we are powerful beings when we move on and let go – we expand.
‘I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger’ Great point Eva. This is indicative of what our mind can do when we let it have its way without checking from which stream our thoughts are coming from.
Amazing how our mind behaves as if it knows what the body is going to experience is going to be liked before the body even gets a chance to have a feel for itself, even though it is the body that will have the tangible experience of whatever is to come. And equally amazing how our body is obedient to whatever has been pre-determined and tries its best to keep its homeostasis. How powerful when the body is given a chance to imprint by itself the quality of what we are going to experience by its movement.
Going for a walk and re-connecting with the body is very supportive when the mind is running it’s own story. I find the quality of my movements affect the quality of thoughts coming through.
I love this Eva, so simple, “having realised and acknowledged this self-made setup” we have the power to change it also.
It really is that simple when we choose to respond to life rather than react to life.
Thank you Eva for showing us how the way we go about things does actually make the difference. The choice we have to share what is true after something, or having done something that had not been truthful or loving, is our key to re-imprint.
A number of applied insights like these and your life can be transformed. Surprisingly, it is really that simple to turn your life around – noticing something, accepting the discomfort, responding, noticing the change, continuing with the new response.
Yes, it turns drama on it’s head. A very empowering way to live.
Our approach to life is everything. One amazing tip I had recently was to step back like I was observing myself, for me this can really put things into perspective when my approach to life is completely wrong and helps me reset everything so I can approach life again from a more truthful, accurate and caring angle.
I like this tip Meg, of stepping back like I am observing myself, ‘ One amazing tip I had recently was to step back like I was observing myself, for me this can really put things into perspective when my approach to life is completely wrong and helps me reset everything so I can approach life again from a more truthful, accurate and caring angle.’
Yes the reaction to a situation that is not ideal can be worse than the situation itself! I remember I never could stand heat and would know if it was very hot and humid I would be getting a headache for sure. This changed when I let go of the ideal I could not bare the heat and took it easier when it was hot. Now I actually love warm weather very much!
This is a spot on example how easily we set ourself up for the day ahead and how indeed powerful we are that we are not bound and determined by these unconscious decisions but can make a different choice.
Yes, all we need to be is become aware of them and choosing to stay aware of them.
We all to easily can be set up by our mind to worry or be irritated by something that may or may not happen that we can completely underestimate how easy it is to change the trajectory of those thought processes by coming instead from a loving heart.
Great sharing Eva. I had something similar recently where a situation happened that in the past I have always reacted to in a particular way and for a moment expected it would be the same. However, I realised that I have changed and it does not need to be the same and in fact I did not react in the slightest and it was not an issue at all. I love to now live more and more without any expectation of how something might or might not be or holding onto previous behaviours – there is a great freedom in that.
It is interesting, that how we think is how we are, I remember in the past looking at the clock in the morning and seeing how many hours sleep I had, and if I didn’t have the perceived right amount I would tell myself I am going to be tired for the rest of the day, after a while of telling myself how tired I am, I realised this was a set up, so I choose to not take on those thoughts and what a difference that made to my day.
‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’ – this is it Eva, it is the choice to align to all that I am, and let this be my focus, let this be what I rest in as opposed to what is happening outside of me.
This reminds me of the common thought that will arise before an extremely busy day – of, ‘this day is going to be so busy, so intense, so horrible.’ And of course – it is! I was reflecting on this just the other day and how this thought is a precipitation to the day I intend to have.
So reading your blog is very timely Eva – it is not the outside that needs to change, but our responsiveness to it.
An issue does not make it into a problem until and unless we accept it as such.
Yes making it a problem amplifies it, a choice that can easily be slipped into but also to come out of.
“The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.” This is true of so many things where we can either fall into ingrained patterns or change how we move and respond.
I am choosing love and I am also choosing to look at exposing the ways in which I still resist love ( having spent a life -time of not, in avoidance…..
We were all born equal in our free will – to choose love or everything that is not love.
This is a great example of how we are a vehicle for energy which include thought. Move our body in connection to the divine and all thoughts that follow can not help but come from divinity.
It is so true Kim – there is a much greater flow felt in our body, being and lifes when our minds are working in response from our connection to our Soul. It sure does feel divine.
An article so intently needed in today’s world. The thoughts that we allow to dominate our behaviours are intense, yet as shown here a simple choice to again align with the body completely changes our outlook on life.
It is amazing how much we create and control pretty much everything that happens to us – after all we are the makers of our own creation, so have no one else to blame when things do not go to plan. But do we want to take responsibility for this – largely no! I find it is fascinating how one small little thought can slowly get me completely away from what I was doing.
Gosh it’s so so simple to change our ways. It’s not about making a different choice but choosing a different quality of energy.
How well we do know and can choose a different way with things.. Than we become aware how everything matters.
Thank you Eva, for offering such a beautiful reflection and testimony to the fact that whatever it is we willingly connect or align to is what we magnify through our bodies, giving way to and reflecting the quality of choices and life we experience. As such it sure does serve us well to bring awareness to how we feel in our bodies, through firstly developing a loving and honouring relationship with ourselves, our body and our being.
There is a life of “simplicity and grace” waiting for all of us. All we have to do is make a choice to not allow the ‘negatives’ that often swirl around us to take us away from ourselves but instead to stay in connection to the amazingly wise being that we are. There is so much power in choice; power to bring complication into our lives or power to return to living in simplicity where life flows with ease.
The power of choice, very cool. I know that if I let my brain run away when it comes to these things, it can completely take over and diminishing who I am. This morning I had a hive rash thing come up on my neck, it kept getting itchier and itchier, then I read this blog and begun to settle, by the time I was finished reading, the itch went away and the rash settled down completely.
Love the power of movement. Life is just a flow. You either choose to flow with one current or another. No matter how caught one feels in one current it is still just a choice to come back to the other. It just wants to elude us that that choice is not so simple if not non existent. No trying in true choice.
It’s great to see how we can set ourselves up to struggle or find something difficult just by the way we approach something and if we have a set picture in our minds eye about how it’s going to go… Rather than simply staying with the quality that we’re bringing to the situation…
Great blog Eva, the more we feel and move in the greatness we are, the more we feel when these movements are not of this same greatness.
This is certainly a very powerful example of the power of our choice. I too am discovering this in how I walk when I walk with all of me. Old patterns of how I hold myself are released. Any thoughts about what I need to do in the day and worries over this leave. Sometimes I want to keep hold of the thoughts, I may even have thoughts that say if I don’t think about what I need to do next I will miss something and make mistakes. But when I choose to focus on my walk, on what I’m feeling and my movements the connection with myself is restored and a clarity and simplicity I can bring to my day is known.
Great article and the choice is clear. We can have a thought that then dictates how we move and then what we think next as this article is saying. What if we check in on the quality of the thought and then choose to move not in accordance with the thought but in accordance to how we feel? I spend time in the practice of walking for walking, meaning not walking for exercise or time out or to think but walking with a dedication to just allow my body to settle, a walking yoga in a way. This way I know what ‘I’ feel like walking and so when something happens I go to my walk and connect to this and allow myself to settle. I realise I walk and move a lot and so I want to be sure that I am truly connected to what I am doing and not just a walking head of thoughts.
This is why it can be said that we make our own weather. What this means is that we are in control of the environment we find ourselves in by way of the energy we choose to align to. Or more correctly stated, we align to a source of energy, either love or all that is not love, and all our subsequent choices are fed to us by virtue of the source we have aligned to. If we find ourselves lost in a world that is not true to the love we are, in order to return we need simply adjust our movement by way of seeking that which will bring us back to ourselves, such as the simple move Eva made when changing her walk. Great example.
The power of choice and the power of expectation. Both powerful, but one, expectation, can only leads us into more misery whereas we always have the choice to make a loving and true choice.
Thankyou Eva, great to read this again. Life is truly powerful and miraculous when we live from a connection to our inner most heart. It was amazing that you were open to the possibility of life feeling different in the humidity, as most of us just accept that this is “how life is”, rather than explore further.
I love what you share Eva, we have a choice how we respond to every situation, we can choose to approach a situation in a fresh way, not bringing our past experiences with us, we then have a fresh choice how to respond to what is presenting in the present and not be influenced by the past.
Astonishing proof that our approach to life counts. I think it’s incredibly empowering to know that what we choose from the moment we wake up will shape, mould and define our day ahead – I love that.
This makes me think back of the days where I would often have headaches and once a headache would start it would be there always for the rest of the day, it would also increase in severity and force me to go to bed early. So every time a headache would start I would know that I could write off my day soon. This totally changed as well for me when I stopped reacting to the fact of having a headache and simply take it easy, sometimes the headache would go away completely in the day. All because of choosing to stay with me instead of reacting to my headache.
When there is a strong will to nominate and move in a way that rebirths The Way that is fire through expression it will be that; and the more the body will now know again. Such is life / fire.
‘The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.’ The golden key to life. We can spend lifetimes trying to change whatever is outside of us but nothing will change – ever. The moment we realise that the only thing we can change and have responsibility to change is the way we live our lives – our choices – is when we start to live life instead of being moved through it by whatever is going on around us.
The power of choice, as Eva said the humidity hadn’t changed, she changed in choosing to not give the discomfort any attention or energy, she chose to stop this old pattern, and to instead put her energy into re-establishing her connection with self and how lovely she felt. What is shared in this blog can be brought into so many areas of our life, it is always our choice how we respond.
I love the simplicity of what you share, how we can make different choices according to what we want, we are powerful beings.
This blog is revelatory! Highlighting where I am still caught up in being a victim to the world and justify this by saying it is so cold, or the phone keeps ringing and I can’t focus on what I’m doing or whatever. Yes, these things are this way but they are not bigger than my loveliness! I don’t have to forgo being connected with me to deal with the world by enjoining with whatever is being presented – an argument or whatever. As soon as I do this whatever is going on on the outside becomes what is on my inside, like letting in the rain. But even then, beneath that all is my loveliness that when I let myself shine all the rain and damp evaporates.
Eva your blog explains so clearly how our attitude to something can create a discomfort or unease that doesn’t really have to be there.
Eva, this highlights how much we set ourselves up for what we experience and then question what is really going on. There are times when it can feel like we are copping a ‘bad’ time but could it be that we receive what we have already set ourselves up for. Staying present and focusing on our amazing essence will support only beautiful and support moments – it is up to us.
It is gorgeous to feel the simplicity and grace that flows through us, in these moments which I am observing and becoming more aware of supports me to continue choosing and connecting to love, my true essence.
What this shows is that actually nothing from the outside can truly change how we feel inside, unless we bring more importance to the outside than to ourself.
Very true Esther, a great reminder to stay connected to ourselves or we give power to things outside of ourselves and then complication can follow.
Phenomenal – what is going on around us (including the weather) never need interrupt how amazing we feel – unless we choose to allow it to.
Negative thoughts are truly destructive as they not only bring us down they feed us self-doubt too, I loved reading about your walk because I too find walking a great way to connect with myself, to bring me back to a rhythm and a flow which is definitely empowering.
‘Walking is for me one of the major ways to bring myself back to me and my body when I find myself hooked in by the mind, by emotions or by anything coming from outside of me.’ I totally agree Eva, walking is such a powerful way in which we can support ourselves and the acceptance walk is a great way to bring ourselves back when we wander off into old patterns or stories in our heads. Thank you for this simple and inspiring reminder.
A powerful example how simple life can be.
Great to read your blog again Eva and reflect on how I give my power away to the outer environment and my expectations of how the day may be for me based on weather, or choosing to stay with the loveliness within.
The power of choice is such a huge one. We can so easily give in to these old patterns that have usually held us in a way of being that is less than satisfying or loving. There can be that spiralling effect as you say, that can take a hold, unless we learn to arrest it, be aware of the process of how we can give into it. I know that I do that a lot at work. I start the day, being incredibly with myself, connected and loving, then as the day unfolds, I get affected from outside influences, but also inside influences. The inside influences are the thoughts that can derail, distract, so I start to eat, then loose myself and not be all of me in everything else I am there to do. So what you are sharing here is so very true. It is knowing that we do have the power of choice, anytime, anywhere.
We really can set ourselves up, probably more than we may realise by the way we ‘think’. We sure are powerful creators, yet often what we are ‘creating’ is not necessarily what we would choose if questioned, though this is by default what we have chosen. We are always choosing one way or the other.
Awesome Eve, discovering that we are the creator of our own ills is extremely powerful, and discovering the subtlety of these choices is even more powerful.
Very inspiring Eva. Very gorgeous to feel the power that comes through our choice to connect to who we are within. For it is only when we are connected to our essence within that our minds are guided to work with us, as otherwise they are driven by a force that serve only to keep us away from living with the awareness and the in the power of all that we are. This is always our choice, one that in every moment is offered to us to us again and again and again, and as such is what is magnified through our bodies.
Sometimes we are stunned by one choice that we make, that out of the blue seems to change our day, but the reality is our whole existence is a continual chain of choices. So for every ‘normal’ thing we do, that we take foregranted what if there is another wyay like the one that you chose Eva, that promotes nurturing, tenderness and space? And what would our life be like if we just chose this more often? I am inspired to find out and give my ‘normal’ a miss.
If we continue to measure life from what we have known we will perpetually be owned by the past. If we look to others for a sense of safety in us, we will always be chasing an out of reach carrot. And most of all as you show Adam we miss out completely on our true beauty. There is no-one I need to copy or to beat, all that’s needed is to be simply be me.
The simplicity and yet power of your realization can be applied to absolutely anything in life…. for the person, issue or incident may not be able to be changed, however how we respond to it is completely under our control.
Yes, it is that simple really we can either react to life and what is before us or we can choose to respond to it…. responding is so much more enjoyable for us and for all.
Aah the joy that is movement and how effortlessly we can change our bodies configuration from tense and hard to supple and oh so lovely by changing the way we move. Thank you Eva.
Awesome example, respond or react? Simple choices always there for us and the consequences of those choices always offering us further choices, and another way, should we be open to this.
Great example Eva. The true power of choice is in knowing that there is, in every moment, a choice to be made. This choice is very simple – do we express the love that we are, or do we hold back and through this end up instead expressing all that is not of this love? Most of us just bumble through life not even being aware that we are even making a choice with every step. Thus the first choice here is to become aware that every move we make is fashioned by the source of energy we have chosen (albeit subconsciously at this stage) to align to. Is it love or is it not?
This is a beautiful example of how we create our own reality, as you say “The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.” This is huge and I love the simplicity in it, we all have the power to make a choice in every moment.
What you have presented here Eva really stood out for me this morning, no big process or huge issue, just simply a choice; and as we know the choice is always ours;
“It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated”.
I think we forget we have a choice in every moment, and give our power away to the dramas of life, letting ourselves knowingly be tossed and turned around by everything and anyone outside of us. I know I do, but if I’m totally honest it’s a lack of responsibility. I know for a fact in every single moment I can choose how I can be, if I choose staying with myself, feeling me first is more important than any conflict, drama, emotions or energy outside myself, then things change and become very clear big time. I observe life, people, situations, energy at play, where they are coming from and why, and they do not have an affect on me. Hence I take responsibility. I don’t absorb them or take on other peoples emotions. Which if I am honest, I do big time, because I worry, judge, think to much, contract and react to things or people before I have even got there or met them. I know deep down this is not me, it’s an old cycle pattern to not choose anymore, it’s not going to happen overnight, but something I need to work on.
Beautiful Eva, what an amazing experience of choosing to stay connected to your loveliness within and to the presence of all that you are , and not allowing outer conditions to send you spiralling into a day of discomfort. Much to learn from your experience, thankyou!
I have been finding the same, the moment I choose to approach any situation in a fresh way, not bringing my past experiences with me I see I have a fresh choice as to how to respond to it. It does not mean I negate all my past experiences but I just observe where the anxiety, the hesitancy, the fear even grumpiness comes up and ask myself if that is needed right now and how I feel right now, or is that an old feeling that is being brought in. The choices we make are very powerful and available far more often than I would have appreciated before choosing to be more aware of them.
This is a beautiful reminder of the power that choice has, it is incredibly inspiring to feel that in every moment of hardship we have the choice to step out of it. It is this that makes life a joy.
It is a great exercise to look at our moment-to-moment choices, and be honest about where they are truly leading us.
Yes true Victoria, I know for me some of my choices in the past were used to distract and delay me, a perfect way to stay irresponsible.
The power of making a different choice, yes, simple yet profound. Complicating what can in truth be very simple keeps us lost in distraction and reaction.
It is a strange human way that we focus all our attention on a negative thought that is a mere blip of the true magnificence we are, as if by such focus we could begin to tell ourselves we are far less than who we truly are. A great save Eva…the power of choice is always in our own hands.
Awesome Eva, the power of choice is the power to unlock our own self created prison.
“….I could either choose to keep myself trapped in that crippling pattern or I could choose differently: which was to stay empowered and connect back with myself ….” This is so empowering Eva. I am realising this week some of the old patterns I keep re-choosing, rather then letting them go. Choosing to stay connected and with myself is the way to go!
This is absolutely a life changing discovery Eva. I am pondering on the many ways I react to things believing these reactions to be ‘part of me’ when in fact they are choices that lead me to feel miserable. The wonderful thing is we all have an opportunity to choose differently regardless of what we are faced with.
Thank you Eva for a great blog one that I can relate to from a different angle. For me it was the amount of sleep. In the past there were times when I would not get what I thought was the required amount of sleep, even though I felt fine upon waking I would immediately tally up the hours of sleep I had which were less and said to myself I am going to be tired, this was a set up for me to be tired for the rest of the day I realised this and chose to not add the hours slept and go into the mind game and just feel how my body was feeling and letting it be ok..
“It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated.” – I love this sentence, as it demonstrates the ease of the choice to be ourselves is. We sometimes make it a huge hullabaloo about I’ve got to do this, that and the other, when a simple walk is all that’s needed
When I observe myself going into justifying my choices or making a choice out of need then there is always a tension connected to this choice which impacts how I am physically – I contract, observe there are fears and feel pressure. The degree to which we influence outcomes is huge. It is all about the energy we choose and as you have shown Eva by choosing love first and to be who we truly are everything around us changes – energetically everything becomes clear and is no longer contaminated by what is not true.
Eva I did this every year living in North Queensland where humidity is a constant and not just specific to summer… so I really got the set-up per-say of the negative thoughts and associations around this and how that then plays out by confirming once again what we previously perceived about it. Now I’m living in Canada and what I’ve just realised by reading your blog is how I set myself up for winter… not in necessarily a loving way but more of a ‘oh gee am I going to be cold’ and I can feel my body starting to tense even thinking about it. What is interesting is that when it does come to winter and if I do feel really cold it is because of how I have chosen to dress or what I have chosen to do. So thanks for sharing your experience Eva.
How we respond or react to any circumstance or situation is the key to how we will feel and what we eminate; as you say Eva it is all about choice. Thank you for the beautiful reminder.
“I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger.” A great realisation Eva. We have a choice to be ruled by our ingrained patterns or to choose in every moment to be who we truly are. And we live with the consequences of our choices.
Thus way living from a fresh outlook every day is so important. It facilitates growth and avoids stagnation in past experiences.
Eva, what you share here is how simple it is to change a way of living. A very powerful reality that each and every person has the ability to live from – if first there is the choice to discern when our mind overrides the true beauty of our body.
Walking is a very powerful way to bring ourselves back to our innermost but equally if we are walking with troubled thoughts walking magnifies the issues. We need an awareness of both.
Every moment we are making choices, and it doesn’t matter what situation we are in, what building office block we work in, what relationship issue that comes up, we can always choose to choose Love. We can always align to truth, ignore the hooks of the drama, feel the hurt we may carry and return to our divinity. Thanks for putting this into perspective here for me Eva. If life is constant chain of choices which lead from one to the next, let us ensure we make the ones that come with Love.
Making a choice gives us the opportunity to reconfigure our movements, Which change the way we feel. It can be very empowering to feel this.
Absolutely Elizabeth, in what Eva says we can see there is no situation or moment this does not apply. There is always the possibility to stop the familiar momentum and to choose Love.
Very interesting Eva, I have found a similar situation with food. When I think I am hungry I can change that thought by the way I move and connect back to myself! This deeper understanding of how my mind and body work came about after I had a 4 hour breakfast after a Universal Medicine retreat in Vietnam and 2 hours later I joined in a chorus of other students who said they were hungry and lets go for lunch. Yes it was lunch time but in no way could I be hungry so I nominated that and in so doing so my body then moved in a different energy and the hunger pains went away.
This is a lovely confirmation for me Eva of the power of our choices. I am experiencing this myself this morning. I had the choice to let my mind run the show or to let go of what it was ‘trying to tell me’ and reconnect to my body. In that moment I chose to reconnect to my body and can feel the shift that occurred in how I was feeling about myself and life in general. And it’s understanding that there are choices to be made in every moment.
Eva I love how you bring everything back to a practical simplicity. No fuss just truth. Simple.
‘The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.’ It’s almost too simple to accept the power of our choices for when we do, we have to accept also the number of times we have been an absolute numpty and chosen the complication of our old patterns over simplicity. We can become arrogant in the defense of our choices, when really aren’t we just feeling embarrassed, ashamed…etc. The most loving thing to do at this point is accept and surrender that its a fair cop, letting go of and healing the old habit or pattern in the process.
We are often fed thoughts that set off an array of feelings. We then think these feelings are ours and these feelings are true and we contemplate, ponder on and process what ‘we’ are feeling, usually going into solutions or some sort of a ‘doing’ to deal with or manage what ‘we’ are feeling. The truth is that these are not actually ‘our’ feelings at all or our issues and instead they are totally given to us through or mind. Like there are thousands of thought bubbles floating through the air waiting to jump into our head at any chance it gets, which is when we are not connected with and feeling our body. I love the emphasis of the fact that the way we can prevent negative thoughts and feelings is through re-connecting with our body and the power of who we are, not allowing ourselves to be fed by anything but what we feel in our body.
A powerful blog Eva, showing the effect that every choice we make has. Choosing simplicity over complication and not feeding the old pattern. I remember looking at the clock in the morning after not getting my seven hours sleep thinking I am going to be tired today, it was a set up as I would keep telling myself how tired I am, magnifying it, when I choose to ignore the thoughts I was fine and not tired at all.
Amazing, isn’t it… how readily we can give up on the loveliness of our being, finding seeming ‘reason’ to have this disturbed, upset and distracted from… And then, how readily we can come back to it. All an absolute matter of choice and Will, as you’ve so beautifully described Eva. Thank-you.
In this, you offer one of the greatest teachings we could ever hear and truly receive Eva: “It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated.”
Need we make our life one of struggle and complication? Or are there indeed choices available to us, most especially via connecting with our own bodies and the way in which we move – as taught by Serge Benhayon – that can empower us more than we (for the better part) choose to acknowledge?
Absolutely Eva and Victoria, when we give ourselves the space to expand and feel that connection with our bodies then the way in which we move brings a true purpose empowering us for all of humanity.
Beautiful Eva, thank you for sharing this simple but powerful message. How freeing to realize that the power of your experiences is with you and not at the perception and mercy of the weather.
Each day is the same day… Let me elaborate.
Each day we make choices and those choices dictate how we feel.
We make choices and feel different things. Thereby the experiment is to experience the same day again and again until such a time we master life.
The only thing that really comes in the way of this is our choice to not be masters of life but instead to indulge in the self-created individualism that an unmastered life provides.
I love your sharing here Eva, reflecting the simplicity and absolute power of a choice to stay with the body and not bring anything else to the moment. Just your absolute love and commitment to you. I too am noticing this with myself, that when a thought comes in, there is that point just after where you feel your body change and you say to yourself, hang on, that is not my thought and I am not entertaining it, I choose to stay with my body and breathe my breath. I also find that if I move when I am saying this to myself it feels amazing too.
The power of choice is so powerful and so too is the ‘acceptance walk’ that you so simple and clearly share, Eva. It is such practical and empowering tool for everyday living.
The power of choice is so powerful and so too is the ‘acceptance walk’ that you so simply and clearly share, Eva. It is such practical and empowering toll for everyday living.
‘ When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known’. We are only ever asked and invited to be our true selves and no perfection asked for.
Such a powerful blog Eva which delivers so succinctly how we ourselves create either harmony or disharmony in our lives.
Choice is one of the least understood and most underestimated powers. Everything in every moment is based on a choice or the result of a previous one. Universal Medicine brings a grand awareness to the in and outs of and the power of choice in a way that has empowered thousands of people to choose another more loving way of being and living.
The power of choosing to be with ourselves and not be ruled by our thoughts. Thank you for the reminder of the ease with which it is possible to come back to the body and totally change our perspective if we so choose.
Hi Eva, from your blog I could see how easy it is to heal the past, present and future all in the one moment. The moment we choose to not accept an old projection!
How powerful we are Kathleen that we can heal the past, present and future in a moment, the moment we choose truth.
Yes powerful indeed jacqmcfadden04 for the moment we choose truth is the moment we move out of the boundaries of time and into the expansiveness of space.
It is amazing how we allow ourselves to be bound by our past experiences and form expectations and projections which would stop us from experiencing and appreciating the truth of what is simply presented before us.
This is such a simple blog that is truly empowering thank you Eva.
Your experience highlights what is possible when we are able to catch ourselves going down a familiar slippery slope of choices and in that moment save ourselves from a moment, an hour or a day of feeling lousy about ourselves. The trick, the skill, is to be able to catch that moment – but we get many points of choice as we descend into the abyss. So it’s just a matter of whether we choose to take up any of the opportunities for a different outcome. Always about choices. Always our very own responsibility.
“just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known”, simplicity and grace, how beautiful Eva. You have just demonstrated the power and divinity of being your true self, being ME.
Thanks Eva, I find it amazing how in the simplicity of being honest about where our beliefs come from, the way we feel about a situation can be completely turned around.
How we feel is magnified by how we express what we are feeling, so in every given moment we have the choice for our expression to be open, accepting and loving, or closed and loveless. Thank you Eva, this is a great blog to remind us of this fact.
Hi Eva, proof that staying with the body works. I find that I get caught up in thinking and ruminating at times and struggle to stop the stories building up. Walking is one way that I find helps to bring me back too.
So true ch1956 we can build up stories in our mind to tower above us and shadow our thoughts or build our own power. We always have a choice. It is also true that our body is constantly working for us – if only we would listen to it and accept the strength and power of our body over the power of the mind.
No such thing as good or bad luck, it all comes down to our choices
A beautiful sharing on the simplicity and power of our choices each and every moment – thank you Eva for this gorgeous reminder.
‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’ This is such a healing both to read and to do. The choice to move with our bodies and accept ourselves fully is so powerful. Thank you Eva for sharing the power of our choices.
This is powerfully simple Eva. Just one choice and it can change everything.
I have just been feeling the after effects of something odd I ate. Reading this blog Eva stopped me in my tracks and helped me realise how the thoughts that were coming were an old and familiar, like a well trodden trail or ever present wallpaper pattern – but were not actually true. So powerful to see and know all I need do is choose the truth – thank you.
In recent times Joseph I have noticed how when I do make a slip up, a mistake, do something dishonouring or have a situation presented before me I just don’t like, reacting to it in an unloving way actually has greater harm on us and those around us than the nature of the situation itself!
Oh yes, I had one of these last night, and the way I reacted was to go into an old pattern of going hard and not letting the other person in. For the first time I realised how harming this was as I didn’t express fully and went to bed tense and shut down, a great lesson for me in expressing all that needs expressing.
I love this. I am also noticing lately more and more that it is often my own reaction that makes my experience of a situation harder than it really should be, and takes me away from the truth of who I am. For example, I really do not like cigarette smoke, and my body tenses up if I spot someone smoking in/towards where I am going, and by the time I know it, I get hardened, grumpy and resentful – this is a really hard one for me not to be judging for their choices (and I used to be a smoker myself) – and the gorgeous, tender me disappears because of that. It really is so simple, just a question of which one I give energy to – my reaction to someone else’s choices, or my true self.
Sensing your environment and how you are going to cope in that environment is given to you through your awareness and acceptance. Telling yourself how you are going to handle it is a form of control, abuse and manipulation which makes everything feel more heightened ten times over.
How we respond to the situations is the key and in every moment there is a choice. Your story is a great example of the power of choice to change the situation so simply and beautifully.
It is so simple when you come back to your body by walking in the acceptance of everything in you.
What is shared here shows how we are the creators of every situation in our lives and how there is always the choice to turnaround from the ill choices made. This can be challenging to admit at times so thank you, Eva for sharing the power of choice, and as you say simple!
We can choose to make things as complicated as possible, yet we must know simplicity front to back to know how to complicate such order. I find this in walking, my focus can switch and change all over my body in the attempt to connect then I end up dizzy and frustrated. Where if I simply connect and enjoy the movement of my body it brings the quality of playfulness and lightness in my step – it’s easy peasy when we don’t try.
Rachael, I find myself getting exhausted when I’m in my head, thinking about all that needs to be done. Walking is a great way to be with our bodies and through that connect back to our essence, its really one of my favourite modalities.
I love the example of the simplicity that comes with surrendering to the flow of our body, unhindered by emotions and control. How life can be so simple, playful and easy.
We need not change a situation, just how we respond to it rather than a form of reaction. The message in your blog Eva can be applied to all area’s of life, for me, I am relating very much to my work place and the pattern of control that can play out at times. When I focus on control of people and situations I feel exhausted and tense and hard, not the joyfully light me – so instead of focusing on the control and need for people to be a certain way I can simply bring my attention back to me, my breath and the response I am expressing which is affecting everyone.
So true Rachel. It’s not the situation we need to change its how we respond. We have the power when we reclaim our responsibility.
I agree Rachel, it is up to us to take responsibility for what ever comes up and make a true choice from the body in how to be in that moment. Being honest with ourselves is the cornerstone.
“When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.” Love this sentence, and yes walking me confirms me for who I am.
Its true Francisco, when I do actually walk with me I too feel my power. I feel my acceptance, simplicity and grace from within which then confirms me and magnifies like a ripple effect all around me.
A great example Eva of how it is entirely possible to change a well-worn outcome into something way more supportive just by catching ourselves in the reaction, recognising where we’re heading and then choosing a different, more self-confirming approach. The power of walking definitely shouldn’t be underestimated as a main means of reconnecting back to ourselves and from there having the power to make a different, more supportive choice.
There is no denying the choices we make make all the difference to how our time here on Earth will be, one that is evolving or one that is retarding.
True Giselle.
Eva this is very inspiring for me. I create for myself much anxiety and negative thoughts at the idea of finding parking anywhere I go. I have been known to refuse invitations simply on this basis. In the past whenever a friend offered me a lift I was so relieved I had to repay the favour many times over, so great was my relief. The few times I have decided, or rather chosen, not too make a big deal out of it, I have indeed found a parking spot. I understand and more importantly feel the power of choice.
A very profound sharing Eva highlighting power of choice. Yes, it can be that simple. I have also discovered what a powerful marker of truth our bodies are. When we choose to feel and connect to our bodies and what is true, and choose to honor this truth, the choice from this point is clear. And then what follows is a natural deepening of our connection to the love we are, and what we are not fades into insignificance, rendered powerless.
Hi Eva, you seem a little in awe that the power of the choice that you made had such a life changing outcome. A true revelation for you and a moment that will never be forgotten. As you have just experienced, all our choices inform every moment and you know in your body the power of that – responsibility and accountability take on a totally different understanding and experience now. Thank you for sharing.
I cannot thank you enough of this blog Eva, every time I read it I love its simplicity. Reacting to physical discomfort or pain is still a big thing for me but knowing that I can choose to magnify the situation or not is huge. When I don’t go off into a snowball of drama there is space to address the situation rather than have it drag on longer.
Lovely to read your blog again this morning Eva, as the reminder it is to the power of choice and also how walking or any movement has the power to change the way we think with one condition that we are with the movement, connect with the body. Sometimes when I am ‘chewing’ on some thoughts thats keeping me busy, I walk only with my head. The body is going on auto pilot. I have to choose (power of choice) to connect with my body, feel how I move my legs, my arms, where my breath is at etc. and choosing to be aware of where I walk, opening up to all that is there and feeling me.
Dear Eva,
I love this sentence “It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated.”
This is the absolute truth of us choosing our connection. It is simple, attainable, life changing, real, true and can be done in the matter of moments, through our choice to choose it.
Thank you for reminding me about the acceptance walk, I have not remembered this in some time. It’s quite amazing that a certain walk would support someone to let go of a stress and simply accept all that is happening. This is significant because each tool we have to remove stress from the body and mind is invaluable. It’s also a very simple way to deal with stress. If we could teach the acceptance walk in schools then this simple tool could be used throughout life.
You make a really great point here Eva, that our thoughts can change how it is that we actually feel. I experience this quite often, a thought will come in, an old pattern of thinking of how I think things are going to be. What this does is that it takes me away from being truly present with what is there in the very moment and then changes that experience. I have been practising noticing when these thoughts do come in and make the choice to not give power to them but rather stay with my body.
“The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed”. This is so true for everything in life. It is not the situation or incident that matters but our reaction to it. In every moment we have a choice. Thank you Eva.
I too have found this Carmin. For I have the choice in every moment to stay present and respond from the fullness of my presence, or to be taken with the need to protect or defend myself. I really love living life from my fullness of presence. It is so simple and honest and is like a breath of fresh air.
I agree Carmin, in every moment we have a choice to react and go into patterns of behaviours in order to cope or to feel what is there to be felt without leaving the essence of our beingness.
This is lovely Eva, I have found the same, that by walking and moving in a way that brings me back allows me to arrest the negative thought patterns that are sending me into a spin. It is a folly to think we can think our way out of something, as those thoughts are all part of the same vortex and actually keep us more entrenched in the issue. Once I understood that it was the energy that needed to change before the quality of thoughts would change, everything has turned on its head – and now when something does take me out, thanks to Universal Medicine I have some powerful tools to bring myself back.
Beautifully said Annie C, how easy it is to bring in more thinking, and how revolutionary it is to instead choose to move in a certain way to change the quality of energy we are in, hence changing the thoughts.
well said Annie and it makes sense doesn’t it, we can’t fight thoughts with thoughts it will just take us further away from our natural stillness and connection. I used to do this with all my might and got so frustrated over it. Now I know when I am fighting in my head to bring my foes to my body and be astutely aware of the quality I am choosing to move in.
Just today I had the same experience. I left for work and in the car I went from feeling full of love to nervous and insecure, a feeling quite familiar to me. I wondered what had just changed my state of mind. After realizing the effect of some negative thoughts I just had before I remembered something Serge Benhayon once said to me, so I steered myself back to how amazing I was feeling right before. By doing this I could connect back to that feeling and let go of the negativity. So it is as you say simply a matter of choice.
Beautifully stated Rachael and Hvmorden. The mind loves complication, loves to carry us off into past or future fantasies and away from our bodies and the living truth of who we are. By consciously choosing the simple uncomplicated act of walking we allow the body to express its grace and beauty and the mind to align back to the reality of the here and now. “The answer is simple – THE POWER OF CHOICE.”
Barbara, thank you for your insightful comment “The mind loves complication, loves to carry us off into past or future fantasies and away from our bodies and the living truth of who we are.” This is very true for me. There is certainly something false and stale to the energy of these thoughts as opposed to the living energy of the whole self felt in the body. My mind can only seem to recycle things over and over, and drag me into stress and worry, whereas my body always feels calm and bubbling over with life force and Joy. It’s amazing just how much time I spend with my mind, no matter how harmful its track record, yet I still don’t stop regularly enough to connect to and feel my whole body and the living truth it holds.
That was so much fun to read your amazing blog Eva. To feel the power in your choice was so inspiring you wrote: “The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.” Everything is possible with what you describe so easily. Thank you so much for not holding back such a great experience and to share the power you and we all have.
We can continue to live in old, worn out patterns by simply choosing them. They may seem completely ingrained and pose difficult to budge, but this is all part of an illusion to keep us away from our true power. Thank you for presenting the simplicity of this choice Eva and your radicle change in response. Everything is a choice.
Well said Rachel. We are wise beyond our years to know exactly what is needed to either hold us back or to evolve. It is a game we have mastered to a tee, broken with a choice to be aware of this and choose love over comfort. It is an illusion sometimes we do not realise we are in, but connecting back to who we are and living from this point has been a hugely supportive start.
Beautifully said hvmorden and a very exposing point you’ve expressed – ‘We are wise beyond our years to know exactly what is needed to either hold us back or to evolve.’
That’s a game changer, for we must know exactly how to evolve, how Heavenly we really are to know how to choose everything that is not of that essence to hold us back in comfort and deny the illusion we are in at times.
gorgeous to come back to this blog as it shows how we are empowered to deal with life in every situation if we but choose so and if we but connect to ourselves in our body. I have learned that I can feel fine in all kinds of situations that used to trigger me like noise for example. It used to really get to me until I found that in my reaction to it I was actually leaving myself and I have the choice to stay in reaction or come back to me.
Dear Carolien,
We so are empowered to deal with any and all situations that we find ourselves in. What I am getting a sense of tonight though is that I can make living about focusing on doing just this. When really living is about joy, true joy. Enjoying each and every moment of my life from the most amazing choice to be myself and surrendering to me a little more each and every day.
I love that you have chosen to really explore this for us all on paper so to speak Eva. So many in the world feel that we just get given what we get given – yet not owning or perhaps unable to take responsibility for the choices that we are constantly making. The choice you highlight is not about drinking or smoking for example – perceived bad choices – but these constant choices that are floating there waiting for us to knock them away permanently or invite them in again. Eva what you have written is a clear recipe to support us to come back to what we truly know after making a choice that we can feel no longer supports us at all.
What is very helpful for me from your blog is that you chose a physical activity to come back to yourself. Because many times I try to fix it in my mind, to try and figure it out, when, as you say here, it is so simple when you come back to your body by walking in the acceptance of everything in you. I will do that today.
A great point you make juliamanbos about choosing a physical activity to sort out the issue. It’s not something that we’re taught or even encouraged to do until Serge Benhayon came along and showed that it is possible. At one time, I would have continued along the thought path, trying to out-think myself or de-construct the original thought with more thought. Choosing to move in a certain way with the body to then affect what’s going on the mind is a new way of dealing with stuff, and is now my preferred way!
Yes and what you say is very true: we cannot de-construct one energy with the same energy, isn´t it? It is just not possible. But we keep trying to fix the mental negativity with thoughts. And as you say no one before Serge taught this so clearly and simply. Walk in your acceptance and those thoughts simply have no room in there. Ageless wisdom in the schools please.
well said Suzanne especially the part where we get caught in the loop of thinking we are dealing with it as we are analysing and thinking about it. It is a clever loop and one that is supported in many ways in our society. The fact that the quality of our thoughts is determined by the quality of movement in our body is something that should be made know to each and everyone. For me it has been the way out of the prison of my head.
And it is also exactly the contrary to what lots of schools teach, that you can change your experience by changing your thoughts, a lost battle. So this teaching that through your body you change your thoughts is revolutionary, or so it seems as we have gone in the opposite direction. Control your mind, visualize, analize…instead walk gently, walk with your heart, feel the quality of your movement, presence in your body, attention to every detail, fingertips. This is what I find frees the thinking and the issues are not there when you are fully in your body.
I agree, I find the same, making it very simple and coming back to my body by doing a simple physical activity such as walking or even sweeping the floor or drying the dishes works really well to come back to myself.
Wow, the power of choosing to accept oneself in equalness to all around us is really quite profound. It totally blows all those concepts I learnt many years ago in NLP about changing you state of being. These techniques could be something applied to what you experienced Eva but they override the body to do this whereas in walking with acceptance of yourself first, no mind games are required!
Thank you Eva for a great reminder of the power of choice when I walk me in full and the knowingness that all I have to do is express me in full with no holding back, it’s that simple.
Thank you Eva for such a great blog, It is amazing how if we don’t catch negative thoughts when they arise they just continue to grow out of all proportion, and hold us captivated. How powerful is it, that in that moment we can simply choose differently. A choice to walk is a lovely way to come back to being who we are.
This is very true Eva, we do tend to go into negative thoughts especially if there is a repetition of something we feel; is unpleasant. I love that you chose not to go there again and took yourself for a walk to reclaim the beautiful woman within that left the Hotel with you.
On this basic principle our entire life is built. What great power do we have at our core?
This is such a powerful sharing and deserves to be studied. Chronic pain is one of the most debilitating illnesses today and causes a great deal of stress, anxiety and depression. Your blog has just given us a great insight and key to supporting those who spiral into a world of depression due to their constant pain. It is very difficult to not focus on pain when you are in so much of it and when it is constant, yet what you have shared is profound, if we can support them to connect deeper within themselves, the focus no longer becomes the pain but their connection to themselves does. Thank you Eva. Yet another reason why I appreciate these shadings so much, they always support the all.
Thank you Eva, this line really struck a chord with me …. ‘It was amazing to feel how easily the presence of myself was regained. It was no big process; it just felt lovely, natural and totally uncomplicated.’ I love what you share about bringing yourself back to you was ‘uncomplicated’. Creating complications is a pattern for me, a major distraction I’ve used to keep myself small. This is a lovely reminder for me, if it’s complicated, feel into what’s really going on!
When we get stressed or anxious about things, sometimes we forget that we have a choice as we get so caught up in the emotion, it can overwhelm…but to realise that we have a choice in every moment of every day, now that is empowering. Thanks for sharing Eva.
So true for when we are caught in the reaction of the moment our clarity and ability to understand is clouded by the heaviness of the emotion.
‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’
Eva this is such a practical and yet powerful way to walk.
When I walk with all of me I let go of anything that is not all of me. It’s so simple and it certainly supports me to drop into a deeper sense of appreciation.
Thank you Eva, love how you say ‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known’. Today, what you have shared enabled me to hear comments made to me, which in the past would have caused me to contract, feel hurt and react. Instead, today, I took time to reflect on what was said, to appreciate all that I am and then take the comments for what they were …… people honestly sharing how they felt. This enabled me to grow, to learn how I could have done things differently and will in the future. A great opportunity to evolve. This wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t appreciated myself first.
Self-empowerment, the key word to end self-abuse.
Hello Eva, I loved your blog particularly the line “… reacting to the physical discomfort and hence hugely magnifying it..” This was perfect for me to read tonight because I had a reaction to an issue and pattern of staying in the reaction. It certainly does magnify what we do not want.
This is such a great blog… in that moment for you to actually notice that, that thought came from somewhere else and is not who you are is an amazing realisation. Sometimes those thoughts are so quick we’ve already gone along with them before we clock that maybe they are not ours. Even when it’s a thought that comes to our own head, we still have a choice of how we will be… if we will buy into them or not. great sharing Eva.
Hi Eva, This blog reminded me of a similar situation with a sitting position (at work) where ‘habit’ of sitting in tension was observed, this came after an Esoteric Connective Tissue session, in that moment I had the choice to continue the old pattern of tension or choose to let it go – I chose to let it go. The tension released and there was no pain. Thank you for the blog which triggered this memory as I prepare for work this morning.If I am with me then it is clear I can feel where my body is at and make a choice, so the first choice is always to be with me or not!
I love it Eva, simple yet very power-full -we always have a choice in every moment no matter what the circumstances. I also find the acceptance walk taught by Serge Benhayon to be very supportive whenever I feel I have lost my shine, the music starts and reminds me of the grandness and beauty we all are.
Simple and very powerful: the situation stays the same, but how we look at it changes and this choice completely changes the whole experience. Appliable in many different situations. We let ourselves get caught up in some behaviors that is not really us. We can change our lives and that of others by walking connected to ourselves and our bodies. We can change the world by making different choices, yet we choose to stay in our comfort and what we know.
It is interesting isn’t it Monika? We can change the world but choose comfort instead. Why is this? What is the reward for comfort?
Yes Monika what you share resonated with me strongly as I can get stuck in old patterns because it is an old behaviour even though it is uncomfortable, funny huh? But if we look at it differently and make simple changes such as walking or changing body postures we can totally turn around that choice. Very powerful indeed thank you.
Thank you Eva for sharing how important is awareness and then choice. With the awareness of an old pattern you were able to choose a walk. The walk was done in conscious presence, and assisted you to change the thoughts and to connect to everything around you. It was lovely to feel this change as I read your blog.
Reading this blog has given me an opportunity to observe my thoughts regarding the weather. I have very often said, especially when abroad ”Oh! this is going to be a sticky day” paying very little attention to it. Thank you Eva for this insight.
This is a wonderful reminder that in every moment we have a choice…a choice to stay with ourselves or a choice to leave ourselves for something that we set up and is not true to us.
Reading the blog again makes me realize we have a choice every moment. We are not our thoughts, our first reactions or our emotions. No, we are all our choices added up.
Eva this is simply very inspiring. To have the power of choice is fantastic. To use it, to reimprint a situation that has turned awry, is even more amazing.
I agree emfeldman, I have been inspired by the quick change in you even when going along with your first thought would have seemed ‘easier’.
Simple and powerful. It is up to us to choose how we want to feel. The way you described your walk was healing just to read so I only imagine the blessing you offered to everyone in Hyde Park fortunate enough to have seen or felt you walk past in full acceptance of how amazing you are… reflecting to them that they can choose that too. Gorgeous.
Thank you Eva, I have found the same, and it is great to be reminded of the acceptance walk as this is something i can do at work, every now and again: walk round the shop with total conscious presence and acceptance of the amazing woman I am and the knowing from where I have come.
‘What I realised was how up until this point I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger.’ I love this realisation Eva, I noticed this myself in the case of a headache, the moment I go in how awful it is to have this headache, pour me etc. it gets worse. If I can let it be and I only can do this by my own conscious choice, it is still there but it does not affect me anymore, I choose to not be the victim of my headache and this is very empowering.
Thanks Eva on great writing and the all important point you have made about how the choices we make determine our state of being
It truly is all about choices. Thoughts come in every moment. We are often not aware of it how quickly it goes that we get absorbed in one of them. The fact we have a choice every moment to go into a thought or not, is the thing.
I know what you mean Caroline. Thoughts can quickly distract me from being present and than BHAM… I am OUT. Choosing to remain present and connected with my body is key and far more enjoyable. 🙂
I agree by changing the way we walk, move, or sit as presented by Serge Benhayon, can make a huge difference to how we feel, not only within body, but also within ourselves. Example for me is, when I start to have negative thoughts I am aware that I collapse in my body but, by choosing to change my structure to having my chest open and my spine straight it allows my thoughts to also change. It’s simple really, we always have a choice.
It is so simple, close at hand, we just need to make that choice e.g.change our posture and the train of thoughts change. For me that is magical, each time I choose for that. It always seems to come back to a simple choice.
Thank you Eva, I love what you have written as it is very true and empowering. I have heard Serge Benhayon present many amazing revelations about movement. I have experimented with what has been presented and found it to be life changing just as you have described. For example I have discovered that just by changing my body posture I can completely change my thoughts. The walks that Serge has presented are also incredibly powerful tools. Bringing awareness to simple things like this has almost miraculous beneficial consequences.
Nicola, what you say about the importance of body posture is true. I’ve been playing with changing body posture positions recently and found it certainly helps clear thoughts. It also for me creates a stillness and steadyness. Focussing on body posture brings me back to my body.
I have been playing with posture a lot of late as well and yes it is incredible how when I change my posture and it might only be a very simple and small movement but it changes how I feel. I have also found walking incredibly powerful and I love to walk when I am a bit heady and need to reconnect to my body.
Donna I too love walking with purpose and connected to my whole body. I’m also know that without conscious presence, it is easy to slip back into mind.
Amazing point Nicola. Changing the way we move is a very simple way to change our thoughts.. it’s totally incredible to experiment with!
I agree Nicola. Changing my body posture completely changes my thoughts. Incredible and true.
That is a great point Nicola, I too have heard Serge Benhayon present on this and have since committed to a daily practice of bringing more body awareness into my life. The results have been so amazing as it has allowed me a true choice to keep living like I was before hardening my body and in protection or to embrace the tender and gentle man that I am, I have chosen the latter one and I haven’t looked back.
Phenomenal point Nicola and all; The way we move through space aligns us to either ourselves and everything we are or everything we are not. The power of choice should never be underestimated as the slightest of adjustments make the world of difference.
Reading your blog has helped me to realise I need to find a way for me to easily connect back to me when I have chosen to let myself disconnect by a choice I have made. I knew this already but your blog just made it clearer for me. Thank you Eva.
It is so true that when we encounter a discomfort, the body hardens and gets ready to “make it through the discomfort”, if we choose to. This article is a great reminder of the fact that everything is up to us how we accept and respond to things, situations and people.
Choices can go so far and they are what lead us to where we are at in our lives, physically and also mentally.
Amazing what you write Eva, as it shows how the deep connection and the coming back to ourselves can make such a big change.. if we stay aware of what thoughts come in..we can easily make a choice of our choice!
With every choice we make comes the possibility of true empowerment, or further destructive behaviour that simply takes us away from who we truly are… lets face it … every breath is a choice.
Gosh Eva, seriously highlights the fact that EVERYTHING is a choice and we can change it ever so easily.
Whether the choices we make are made consciously or not they are made in each and every moment. As you have so beautifully illustrated Eva, developing awareness and taking responsibility for the choices we make holds a great power indeed.
Thats a great point Giselle, we are making choices all the time, the question is what energy are we in when we are making them? Are we making them in full presence or are we making them in an unaware state of being?
Power of choice is beautiful, when we stop and connect in the moment of when a choice presents itself. In that stop and that connection to self supports the true choice.
Beautifully simple Eva, we can’t change the day but we can change how we are in it.
Great Quote Tony “We can’t change the day but we can change how we are in it”. I love it, and as much as i agree there are some things we can not change in a day, I do wonder if we have more control over our days then we realise? I once heard a police officer say that some people just seem to have a knack of attracting terrible stuff to themselves, so I also and equally propose “the quality of your day is a reflection of the quality of your choices”.
I love the simplicity with which you bring Eva to change the way we view and interact with the world around us and it all comes down to our choice to do so.
Eva you have written about something that came up for me at the weekend. Whilst at a Universal Medicine retreat I became pre occupied with the heat in the room and the fact that the windows were shut. I was aware that it was really distracting me and couldn’t understand why others didn’t feel the same. I did not get to the point that you did of changing how I felt by choosing to re-connect but thanks to your insightful article I shall practice for sure next time !
What a simple revelation Eva, yet it exposes the power we constantly wield and the mastery we have over our lives.
A great article Eva. The choice to be or not to be and the choice is mine. I too have found the acceptance walk a very positive way to come back and feel the fullness of all that I am.
The power of choice is truly an extraordinary key of awareness. Thank you Eva.
That’s right Brendan. It is easy to blame our environment but it is our choices that took us to the victim mentally in the first place. When we take full responsibility of our choices it is truly very empowering.
Dear Eva, just immediately before and while I was reading your blog I was thinking to myself how do I combat the times where I go into seeking recognition? What do I need to do to arrest these thoughts and behaviours? And you have answered my question, ACCEPTANCE, ‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’ Thank you dearly Eva for your inspiring blog.
Thank you for sharing your amazing experience Eva. Catching those thoughts that perpetuate old patterns that no longer serve and reconnecting back to our true essence is a beautiful and powerful choice we can all make.
Great blog Eva, it’s true what you say, and as I’ve experienced too, that in the moment of realising what issue/negative thought we’ve allowed in to disturb/disrupt us, our feeling, confidence, or joy for example, we can almost like grab hold of it, and view it as if under a microscope seeing it as something that’s there for external viewing or inspection as opposed to consuming it inside as part of us, which then creates the sense that we are that ‘issue’. Which is not true. The moment we realise this, indeed changes everything and our ability to deal with ‘the alien inspection’ is dealt with grace and ease as opposed self-sabotage.
How beautiful that such an entrenched reaction can be turned around 180 degrees JUST with internal awareness. The ramifications of this are boundless, and if the world understood what Eva was writing about here, everything would change … now!
Serge Benhayon has opened this window, this split second to question where and how a thought entered and if it really serves us. As Eva has shared we can truly evolve if we see the power of choice in every moment.
Great blog the power of choice is everything in every day life.
I love how simple and powerful this blog is Eva – thank you – a pearl for us all. It helps me appreciate and remember how powerful a simple choice is for us . I know from my own body and thousands of those I have worked with in physiotherapy – that it is our choices in how we move, think, talk and touch that creates the physical and emotional status of our body and therefore our life.
Thank you Kate. I used to think that our choices were more of the bigger things in life but like you shared, our choices are every single thing, big or small which will impact us greatly. Our choices are constantly presented to us every moment of our day, so what we choose each moment defines the quality in the way we live.
Thank you Eva, for sharing your experience with the power of choice. And the simplicity and grace from walking with all of you. Why do we always have the idea that everything has to be complicated – when we choose all of who we are it starts to be simple and joyful.
I love the way the body responds to our thoughts and shows us clearly if we have let the mind run the show with negative thoughts.
I love how you have shown us how we can either magnify an issue and set ourselves up or we can choose to lovingly reconnect and be master of our choices not the victim of them.
Beautifully said Samantha, mastering ourselves or choosing to be a victim of the world around us… we always have a choice.
These are two very different ways of looking at a situation and two very different outcomes. one leads to the merry-go-round of living in misery and the other to true energetic freedom. Its our choice.
Thank you Eva, this is so true. Choosing to take that moment to reconnect with ourselves actually changes the course of our living way and of our life. Awesome.
It may sound so simple, how a thought and identifying with that thought can change our perspective and feeling about ourselves. This blog shows the power of that ánd the power of choice. I am going to check my thoughts the coming days and see what I come across with and what kind of effects that has on me, my body and mood!
‘Choice’ is such a powerful thing. I have found I can use ‘choice’ to either turn whatever is happening into something wonderful or I can stay wallowing in what ever is going on at the time. It sounds like a no brainer as to which I would choose but I still find myself often caught up in staying with the drama of the moment for a variety of reasons. Eva – your blog is therefore a timely reminder to me to use choice to take the step up and choose to be the true tender, light and loving me. Thank you.
Thank you Helen, you have raised something for me to be aware of here. I realised how easy it is for me to choose thoughts for example and allow it in to distract me and make myself feel small. The amazing thing is to be aware of why and what I did to allow those thoughts in? Once I identify those thoughts I can choose to let them go and not beat myself up. Also to practice ways to connect deeper with myself, in truly being connect with myself every moment possible is the key to arresting my behaviours and negative thoughts that drag me down.
Great reminder Eva. A huge turn around for me in my life to live this truth and know that in every moment I have a choice.
Those recurring patterns are something which can go very unnoticed, but it is a thought and feeling which we can change in an instant.
Thank you Eva, when we are centered and deeply connected to ourselves the power of choice is amazing because it can transform a situation completely from one of suffering to one of enriching experience.
Thank you Eva for the reminder, that whatever our situation is, firstly it is our choice in how to be in that situation, how we respond, but also that there is Always the opportunity and choice to connect back with ourselves.
I love this Eva thank you, the simplicity in the power of a choice. Reminds me of a Charlie Brown cartoon I have, where Charlie is slouching feeling depressed and Lucy reminds him if he stands up straight he will automatically feel better. Charlie does and then decides he would prefer to stay depressed so he choices to slouch again. Very empowering to know we have a choice, game changer really.
Wow Eva, you really make it clear to me that so much in life is a choice, not between the options we think we see, but between old patterns and a simple, true and easy way to be. Your choice on your walk has extended to this blog and now to me. How powerful indeed.
Beautiful blog Eva. I can relate to everything even the sensitivity to humidity and heat. I used to always get a headache with weather like that… it was like I had no choice. But the truth is I do not have that now anymore and I actually can enjoy the warmth around me. Like you, I changed how I was with the weather, I maybe had to take things a little more slowly and drink more and stay in contact with me. With that I learned is that yes we have a choice even when we might feel we do not!
I love this Eva, as there is huge power in our choices, thanks for reminding me to come back to myself and to call out those thoughts that are not us. The simplicity of this is amazing and yet so profound.
Beautiful blog Eva and a great reminder of how through choice and awareness we can change how we feel and bring the joy back to our day.
How powerful we are, if we decide to chose it! Great reminder- thank you Eva!
Wow thank you for sharing this experience. It’s so true the difference it makes by choosing to be us in any situation vs getting caught up in the situation. Either we choose to simplify the situation or amplify the situation. I have experiences of choosing both outcomes and simply connecting back to ourselves is most definitely the better choice.
Thank you Eva, the power of who we so natural are in expression has been shared by you in such an inspirational way. As you so obviously share our connection to what we think is expressed in and through our body, so when we express the true love is in use all I feel the immense and profound difference that this brings to my life. This has all come about as you so humbly share through the inspiration of Serge Benhayon.
The power of choice… very powerful indeed!
Eva thanks for reminding me that I have a choice each day to make changes that help be deeply connect. Now I know that its about taking responsibility for this.
Eva, what you have shared so simply has spoken so deeply to me.”As if at that moment I purposely chose.”
And as you have said it is about “The power of choice”
We have the power to choose a different way,.
Thank you, Eve, gorgeous example of how you chose to deeply connect back to you rather than give in to an old pattern which told you how you were feeling.
Eva you have given such a great example of the power of choice and how we can change old patterns of thinking, which then changes the way our body responds. Thank you for showing how to be responsible for our own well-being.
This is a great point Bernadette, we do have the choice to change our old patterns and ways of thinking. Sometimes they can feel so ingrained that we don’t feel we have a choice, many of them leading to illness and disease, yet it is our responsibility to look at making a different choice and not rely on modern medicine to come up with a fix it solution rather than deal with why we don’t make the healthy choices. I once heard someone say, I wish they would invent a back strap to support me to stand up straight, I laughed and said but you don’t need that just start doing exercises to support your back, they of course thought I was crazy. The other day I saw they have actually invented the back strap to support posture. I am not saying don’t use this for support as needed but as has been pointed out we also have a responsibility to do what is needed to support our own healing and not just rely on what modern medicine and technology can provide.
I love this Caroline, bringing responsibility back to ourselves. It will be amazing when we realise that this is what true medicine is.
This article is a great reminder of how powerful our choices are and how easy it is to change our negative thoughts and hence change the outcome of the many moments within our day. Thank you Eva.
Eva, the things that you write are so deeply powerful. Today I have been reminded of the power of walking me – and accepting me. When this is done it allows complete freedom just to be me and to make choices that confirm and support all of me. Thank you Eva, for reflecting this once again.
Great article Eva, it highlights the power of choice through our bodies that can turn any negative patterns around and connect us with the beauty that we are.
Great article, Eva. I know those negative thoughts and how they influence my being with me during the day. Awesome how you were aware and able to change this in order that you felt amazing afterwards. This reflects the power what I have inside of me. Thank you.
Eva you made a simple choice to connect more deeply with yourself and BHAM the old pattern of reacting to the physical discomfort was released. I love this blog because it shows us how being responsible for our choices can change our lives.
Thanks Eva, it is remarkable how we have the power to choose where we are at in any given moment. And how emotions, patterns and old beliefs can cause us to contract or react in certain situations. Your writing exposes this so well and is empowering, to come to the self, the connection and the love rather than to disconnection or reaction and all that then follows.
Thank you Eva how awesome it is when we change how we respond to things then things that where bothering us fall away. “So, there I was, having realised and acknowledged this self-made setup, and I could either choose to keep myself trapped in that crippling pattern or I could choose differently” Awesome revelation, thank you.
We can choose to stay with the story that we hold about ourselves, which in fact we made up and does not exist and holds us back continually, or in the moment can we choose to be free and spacious and allow something new to express through us. Once we let go of the story we are free to become who we truly are and so the choice is in every moment choosing the openness and spaciousness within, and allowing the new and sometimes a little scary possibilities to co-create you moment by moment.
Eva, great timing for me to read this post. It had me immediately recognise the lead up I create to getting my period. I go straight into anxiety about what level of pain I might experience, and by might, I mean certainly, as is the pattern that plays out every single month. This anxiety no doubt has an enormous impact on my body and if anything might be exacerbating the awful discomfort I experience each month. The power of choice is truly a wonderful thing….and I’m putting this into practice for the month forward. Thank you!
Beautiful Eva, I love this analogy. I feel it is not uncommon for us to load situations with negative associations either from our past experience or from what we have been told/read/heard. We project or assume how something will be and then taint these situations with those assumptions. You have offered much food for thought here.
The power of choice is indeed something to value and appreciate.
In every moment we have the choice to harm or heal ourselves and others.
It is indeed very powerful Eva and Rachel.
I love the power of choice you describe, it really takes us out of the cage and being the victim or the end result of outer aspects. We have the power of choice every second! Very empowering, Eva!!!
Reinforcing the true power of choice. Thankyou Eva (:
Powerful and beautiful reminder. Thank you, Eva.
You are so wise Ava, so often I try to handle a situation on past experience and brace myself for the worst instead of staying focused in the present to see how things play out. It is simply a matter of choice.
Thank you Eva, a great reminder of the power of choice and staying connected with our body to be able to feel the effect of those thoughts that can come in. If we are not connected we won’t notice how our body has changed.
It’s so great to be reminded how powerful our choices are in each and every moment, and that our choices actually govern the way we feel, and the trajectory of our lives – thank you!
Eva the power of choice is such a great reminder to stay connected to myself. The more I choose the more I am connected. I am finally getting it when I am dis-connected everything seems hard work. Thank you for the simplicity of your article.
A very beautiful example of how our choices govern our everyday lives, thank you. Its great to have this as an reminder of how I can change everything by choice.
It’s interesting how our thoughts can determine how we feel and leave us feeling exhausted. Just allowing thoughts to come in about how an event in the future might be, what could go wrong or worrying about it can be debilitating. I’ve had first hand experience of this this week and when I connected back to myself, the worries and anxiety weren’t there. As soon as I allowed the thoughts to come, my body instantly went into a state of anxiety – my breathing changed and more thoughts came – it feels awful and is exhausting.
Thank you Eva. What you share here is very profound. I have been seeing how much I create my own issues lately. I make up stories in my mind about the way things are such as” I have too much work to do” or “nobody is around to support me” only to find that these things are actually not true at all, just old ways of being that I am actually in control of and choosing – absolute craziness. Making a true choice is actually very easy and simple as you have shown.
Very powerful Eva , how have we simply stayed in an old momentum by choice. Wouldn’t it be beautiful to not be held by our past conceptions but remain innocent to every moment and choose from that awareness all that is offered.
This is great to be aware of and how subtly those ‘patterns’ of behaviour sit waiting for any opening to disrupt and complicate our day. The power of choice is where it’s at.
Great sharing, the power of choice. I had a similar experience. I felt my neck and shoulders get quite stiff recently. During the day I said out loud that that whole area was stiff, even asked a friend for a neck massage. While receiving the massage I was thinking ‘this is not going to relive my tension’. And it didn’t. It just got more tense. The more I focused on it, the worse it got. I was enjoying measuring how stiff I was. Then I decided to be gentle with it, leave it as it was and focus on my work. I forgot all about the stiffness, just checking in and making sure I was being gentle in my movements. Guess what? It went away. I realize now it was about what I was believing and the choice to think differently.
At the moment I am breaking some big patterns in my life and I can very much relate to having these thoughts that just don’t support me at all and allow me to stay in that particular pattern. I also experience now the power of choice and that I can choose to let something outside of myself rule me (and have an affect on my entire day), or, I can choose, in that moment, to make another choice. So simple, yet so profound.
This is very profound! and mind boggling! but yes simple in its essence. We have a choice in how to be in every moment and its as simple as choosing ‘us’, what we know our essence is – or choosing something else that is not us and is something like anxiousness, old habits and ways of thinking. Thank you for sharing and bringing our awareness to the finer details of life!
Thank you Eva. It’s so empowering to bust these old long running patterns that keep can keep us held in their grip. The re-imprinting of an old pattern by simply but firmly making another choice feels so lovely in the body. I feel my body saying Thank You, for not putting me through that again!
The power of choice is undeniable – and to make the right choice for our whole being requires awareness.
I read this blog when it first came out, and again now. When I have caught myself reacting to the weather: windy, rainy or “snowy”, cold and slippery – ALL at the same time (as happens here in Norway) – I have stopped and connected to myself instead of reacting negatively to the weather. It has required my full attention to not fall into a pattern of being frustrated with the weather – as it is totally out of my control. Instead, I have learned to connect to my inner sunshine, no matter what the weather is like on the outside, and it makes such a difference in how I feel. Thank you for the inspiration, Eva.
So beautiful. Thank you Eva. The power of choice is so amazing and the awareness of that is such a gift. It is wonderful how our lives have changed with these simple choices having so much impact. To be able to feel the change in attitude to something just by moving and being aware of being present is amazing. I would also like to thank Serge Benhayon for all his work and amazing revelations.
Thank you for sharing, Eva. What a beautifully simple, but powerful, example of the power of choice. I had not considered that my thoughts about my reaction to the weather could play so powerfully with my body. This is something that I chose to ignore and wondered why at the end of the day, my body felt so contracted with accompanying aches and pains. Hmm!
Yes Eva, once we connect to whom we truly are and radiate our glory, our issues are but thin red lines – miniscule in the scheme of things. But if we allow ourselves to identify with the issue then the issue can become all consuming and we lose sight of our glory! So the lesson is to always stay in our glory, which is our natural state. Should we choose to step outside our glory, then as you so beautifully describe, we can “acknowledge this self-made setup” and either choose to keep our self trapped in that crippling pattern or we can choose differently and connect back to whom we are in truth.
Wow great article Eva. It shows how much a thought followed by a choice (about that thought – either in agreement or not) really makes our day what it is going to be. Two people can experience the exact same thing and yet because of their choice it may not be the same. A great reminder! Thank you.
It’s fascinating that two people living the exact same day would experience it differently due to their own choices.
Thanks Eva, your insight reminds me of how in any given moment we do have a choice, there is nothing we need to ”tolerate” ”put up with” or try to over ride if we are honest with our feelings and make that choice to re-connect. Knowing there is this inner-most place within me to come back to was something shown to me by Serge Benhayon and Universal medicine that I appreciate everyday, but this too is choice I make for myself now too.
Thank you Eva, to give power to anything more than the connection we have within ourselves leaves us at the mercy of the weather, the beeping horns, the long queue etc. How wonderful to have claimed that power back and no longer be in reaction to the things that we have no control over.
Awesome blog Eva. Thank you for sharing the simplicity with which we can choose love in any moment and by doing so change the entire experience of our day; and those with whom we share it.
yes – agreed Eva, the power of choice has so many rippling effects in how we experience ourselves and our lives on all levels. Thank you for the beautiful simplicity of this blog…
That is so simple and Beautiful Eva, I never realised the way way you walk and your posture can have such a profound effect n your thoughts and your outlook on life.
Thank you Eva. I can so relate to that feeling of letting something outside of myself affect how I feel inside. Working as a bus driver in the summer, the cabs get very hot and with no air con it can be quite stifling, so I often dreaded the summer. Like you, I now choose to respond to it differently and although it is still hot it doesn’t bother me. The power of choice… how amazing is it?
I love this sentence Eva “What I realised was how up until this point I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger.” This is huge, when we realise that we add to the discomfort we can step out of it, the power of choice is endless. Sometimes I can feel myself stubbornly holding onto things, the moment I realise I do have a choice and I am the only one who can make the change, the stubbornness looses its power over me and life changes in more of a flow instead of feeling stagnated in any way.
I love what you wrote Annelies. When I stubbornly hold onto things I can also feel it as a hardness in my body. When I make the change my body feels lighter and more expansive and my life flows.
So brilliant, the Power of Choice, I am finding this is becoming more and more powerful in my life. Recognising and letting go of old patterns, making new loving choices. Recognising when something feels uncomfortable and out of place and making another choice rather than staying caught up in the uncomfortable spiral.
So great that you observed when you were not bothered by the humidity that: “The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.” So often we blame people and circumstances for our experience of life. You have shown how we have a lot more power and responsibility than we have so far allowed ourself to feel.
I love this Golnaz: ‘we have a lot more power and responsibility than we have so far allowed ourself to feel.’ Indeed, the power of choice in every moment. It is a gift to fully claim this for ourselves in our lives.
Brilliant and so simple.
Thank you for the reminder that to make a different choice, all I need to do is choose to re-connect to my body and feel the real me. Thank you Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for inspiring me to choose differently in my life.
Great Eva, yesterday I noticed three words that kept cropping up to take me out of accepting myself : “I should Have”. I noticed how my whole body changed when I allowed this thought space. I noticed how unaccepting of others I felt when I allowed this thought space. It really is huge this giving in to a thought and how it can change everything. If we don’t come back to ourselves as you have shared we can be bullied and end up miserable and so can everyone else!
Thank you Eva, I liked how you explained how one thought can change your mood and then dictate your day if that thought was left unchallenged. And also how easy it is to make a different choice to stay connected.
Eva, what you said about running an old thought pattern that then affected how you felt in your body was very telling. It shows how we can live life on some kind of autopilot when we do not choose to accept our natural grace and stay with our bodies. It’s like our brains get high-jacked and then we may end up really feeling yucky and not even know how we got there. You’ve shown here how easy it is to come back to ourselves. A simple walk with the right intention can do the trick!
I made the wrong choice this morning Eva, but I was able to come back and choose again and make the right choice. Thank you for this article.
The power of choice so beautifully exposed, thank you Eva.
Eva. My choice today was to read your blog again. It inspired me, that we have choices in this life, and that we will pick the right one.
A great article Eva of how we can stay in the “seeming” comfort of old patterns or we can make different choices to be more.
This time around I can see that my focus should be on the body and not the thoughts. Thoughts feed the feeling in the body and as I move it magnifies how I feel. If change is what I truly want then coming out of my thoughts and focus toward my body is vital.
Choice. Something so simple can make all the difference and a great reminder for me right now. After reading “What I realised was how up until this point I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger”; I could see I have been doing the same thing over the last few days letting an old pattern of worry and stress in. When I stop to see this I can feel that no matter what is going on around me I can choose to change my thoughts and also how I relate to and deal with situations.
Such a beautiful and simple example Eva of the power of choice. I will step into a rainy day in a different way…thank you.
This is a great way of expressing this Rebecca, I like the playful rainy day part. Yes it is a great reminder indeed.
A simple, concise and insightful article, I love this line….’I had identified with the discomfort and given it fuel in the form of negative thoughts that made it grow bigger’….this is huge! – Thank you Eva
Perfect timing for me to read this blog now, Eva, and a beautiful reminder that we always have a choice. Your words are deeply inspiring.
Thank you Eva for sharing and demonstrating how it is our choices of how we deal with, or react to, certain situations that create patterns of behaviours or outcomes that we then think are us. You have shown that with some honest nominating we can alter patters we have put up with for years!
I loved the simplicity of your blog Eva, from experience I know how choosing a negative thought and running with it can change the whole outcome of my day, but as you have shown it can so easily be erased and replaced.
Eva. I just loved your blog. We all make choices in life, sometimes not always right, then again we make some great choices and feel wonderful.
My best choice to day was to look at Truth about Serge Benhayon and I found you to write to.
I may have to print this one out and stick it on my wall I love it so much. It is always MY choice to repeat old patterns or not. I ask myself now – how willing am I to break these old ways? Looking at my daily choices shows me the honest answer to this question. If I complain about songs in my head as I go to bed each night then I ask: Why have I chosen to let them continue?
How so easily we can give our power away to what we are feeling on the outside, in this case the weather. We judge it and then even project this judgement into the future. This is how depression can start. Great also how we can bring this power back through a simple choice and how simple that choice can be, such as the way we are walking. This changes everything. You have shown this so beautifully here. Thank you Eva.
Thank you Eva, a beautifully illustrated example and I’m glad I chose to read it.
Eva. I have come across your blog again today.
Walking in/with acceptance is BIG medicine.
I feel my whole life change the more I do it.
Yes. Yes world, there is a different choice we can make
Great to re-read this as a powerful reminder that a choice is always, in every moment, our own. Thank you, Eva.
I also love the reminder of how we can change where we are with ourselves in the words, ‘Walking is for me one of the major ways to bring myself back to me and my body when I find myself hooked in by the mind, by emotions or by anything coming from outside of me.’ ….. ‘When I am walking with all of me, all of who I am, no holding back (no doubt or fear, no judgement or arrogance etc) – just plain and simply ME – there follows a natural acceptance of ME and an acceptance of ALL around me that is deeply felt and known.’ So simple and profound.
What a lovely, inspiring blog to read! Thank you, Eva. I am not the discomfort, I am not the anxiousness, I am not the unsettledness – I am simply, gracefully me. Change from the outer is a constant, yet it is the constant within me that I choose to live from. And as you say Eva, it all lies in the power of choice. Such a beautiful revelation!
Thank you, Eva! I know that taking a walk with my whole self is exactly what I need right now to help me accept myself and get back to the lovely me I was feeling yesterday.
Thank you for the reminder that I can choose not to identify in the old self-esteem issues coming up. I can recognize the pattern of feeling inadequate and I choose to realize that it is just an issue and not who I am.
Amazing to read your wisdom Eva. We have such power in our choices that can change the way we are and live. I feel it is very empowering.
“The humidity hadn’t changed, but how I responded to it had changed.”
I love your sharing Eva. The power and responsibility of choice. Awesome.
Just today I was speaking with someone about how they felt something without really questioning it, just because they always feel it that way in that certain situation and they came to the realisation that it was not really how they truly felt but they had fallen into a habit of doing so. The power of choice…..
I can also relate to the negative spiralling thought pattern and appreciate the power we have to choose differently that you present through your lived experience.
Stephen I am sure we can all relate to the negative spiralling of our thought patterns that catch us in the trap of reacting to what we hold in our mind instead of simply accepting it, then letting go and moving on. In every moment we have the power to change these dastardly patterns…. what you have shared is a great reminder of this fact.
This is really inspiring Eva. A great reminder of how our thoughts can affect us if we allow this. .
Wow, Eva, such a simple thing, so easily resolved. How often do we ‘curse’ ourselves with these little disempowering statements and how great to catch them and choose differently.
Eva this is so beautifully profound, thank you, it’s really amazing how a simple choice can make such a huge gigantic difference.
That’s beautiful Jinya. Thank you.
A beautiful example of how our choices affect us in each moment. Thanks for bringing awareness to the more insidious everyday choices I make which often go unnoticed.
What you say in this blog really resonates with me, Eva. If we are in a pattern, it’s hard to see that life can be anything but that pattern, by the fact of being in it. By becoming aware that there is a choice, we have an opportunity to lift ourselves out of that and choose differently. I also love to walk and love the feeling of connectedness to me and the world that I am walking through. When I’m feeling this way, I can feel the truth in the fact that every person I walk past, although I don’t know them personally, is another brother or sister.
It’s powerful to read your experience about how you handled the situation by making a different choice. This has helped me really feel my own choices and old set patterns I have created in work. Thank you for sharing.
I can completely relate to this… how we create these obstacles for ourselves pretending that it is something that we have to live with, but in reality not taking responsibility for the fact that we choose. And then we always have the option to choose differently. Thanks Eva for sharing this insight.
Just wow, I sit here reading this blog and the clarity it brings is inspiring. Everything we complain about (Weather, stress, negative thoughts) are no issue if we don’t feed them. And it is as simple as saying no and choosing otherwise.
Thank you Eva, I love this and can relate very much. Your writing has supported me in realising how often I do this in many situations. That I can have a preconceived idea or feeling about a situation and let that dictate my next step or approach to what is being presented. My body then hardens to the expected outcome. This instantly shuts down any learning or expansion as I am keeping myself stuck at a certain point. This is all created in the head and completely disconnected to the body. Thank you for simply but powerfully bringing it back to the body and feeling all of you. Very supportive.
I love how you have put this, Anne Marie. How having a preconceived idea shuts down any learning or expansion so we stay stuck where we are. Shows being ruled by our heads is definitely is NOT the way to go!
Hi Eva, thank you for this beautiful reminder – that the choice is always ours.
Hi Eva, its amazing to read and sit with this. The power of choice. It makes me realise how its up to me what affects me or not. Yet how often its easier to get caught up in the issues outside (weather, dilemmas at work etc..).
Just re-reading this and reflecting how true this is. It’s our choices that get us where we are. It’s enormous when we think of it like this. There’s no good or back luck, or pull of a long or short straw – just choices.
Awesome, thank you Eva.
“I acknowledged that I AM NOT the discomfort. I am the precious woman that left the hotel a few minutes earlier feeling truly lovely!” A great line and reminder! Beautiful, Simple and to the point. Thank you Eva for exposing how it is always our choice, and the power we have within to turn this around when an ill choice is made and then how quickly the body responds and a situation changes. Magic 🙂
What inspired me most about this blog is where you mention that coming out of the reaction (to the weather in this instance) is literally no big deal.
I realise that discomfort and struggle is a choice, and that coming out of that is very simply achieved.
Thank you Eva for sharing this as I too am seeing how new choices in the moment can change everything from old familiar patterns to a clear simplicity and beautiful way forward very quickly, and the power of these choices.
Awesome Eva. I will practice this today. 🙂
Thank you Eva, I love in your writing how you talk about negative spiralling thought patterns and what effect these have on your body. I can very much relate to that.
Thank you Eva for your lovely experience of choice. We do have a choice at every moment but it is so familiar to choose the one that we have always chosen rather than stopping and feeling the choice we have just made.
Thank you Eva for reminding us of the real power of our choices and not to go into what we expect something to be, but rather stay open and present and allow ourselves to feel what it/the experience will be like.
Thank you Eva, beauty-full to read your blog. How great to become more aware what is going on and to bring it back to the simplicity – that it is about choices and how power-full they are.
Very beautiful Eva, I’ve too been realizing how easily I can allow myself to get hooked and ‘comply’ (as you well put it) to an old pattern of reacting to a “physical discomfort and hence hugely magnifying it”… I’ve also noticed that I can chose not to think, be, feel this way, however ‘just choosing differently’ seems so easy that I doubt I can do it… and yet it is that simple: a choice and your whole life changes in an instant…! And this is what you have beautifully expressed towards the end of your writing. Simply great.
It is amazing how powerful we can feel when we connect to the true power within… thank you Eva for the timely reminder. Your blog has also clarified so beautifully a conversation I was having with a friend a few days ago about feeling our beauty and then somehow we find we have left that beauty to engage with something so much lesser than who we are.
I love it Eva, and it is life changing because once realised you cannot return to the old pattern.
Great BIG insight, yet from a simple small choice made in a moment of everyday living. Inspiring example. Thank you Eva.
Choice. So simple… yet so effective. I’m pleased that I made the choice to read your blog Eva.
Thank you for such a simple yet profound example of the power of choice.