Choices we make, the paths we take.

Choices we make, the paths we take.

Very early in life, we, at least in these united States, are pulled away from the influence and guidance of our parents into the educational system. It was designed that way. There are as many reasons for this as there are parents, but the chief reason is the economic necessity for both parents to be included in the workforce in order to generate money to provide for what we perceive are our family’s required necessities.

So the children are put into day care as early as possible so mom can go to work, giving up her most important job of all – that of teaching her children how to become responsible and creative citizens, passing on spiritual values and morality as much by example as by setting boundaries and guidelines, instead turning these extremely important tasks over to someone who is paid a pittance to manage 30 or so barely potty-trained toddlers.

An ancient teaching states, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, therefore, train up your child in the way he should go, and when he grows old he will not depart from these ways.

In the absence of the mother’s influence, what values are these young minds trained into? Show up, be on time, stand in line (quietly), follow the leader, do what you are told, and don’t ask questions. A child that asks too many questions, is too creative, too energetic is often labeled ADHD or some other condition that basically means that they do not conform to the norm and therefore require medication in order to be manageable by the overly stressed teacher in an overcrowded classroom.

This is how the government sponsored educational system was set up following the Prussian model to train the worker bee mentality into a major portion of the populace to supply a labor force for the corporate world. As Woodrow Wilson aptly put it, a much larger group (of the population) “a majority must forego the privilege of a liberal education in order to fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks”.

So our children are taught to work hard, get a good education, find a good job so you can get a good retirement after forty years…None of which is any longer working, but we are conditioned to this enslavement by the choices we make based on the training we receive from an early age.

We are constantly making choices that further enslave us, or work toward freeing us from slavery.

Slavery?

Yes, we are no longer free to choose other than to continue on the path we have already chosen, because that is how we were programmed, conditioned, of if you prefer the term “brainwashed”.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
~Dresden James

Choices have circumstances and consequences.

We choose to save or spend money. We choose to try to emulate the lifestyle of those who we see as successful, etc., etc., and so forth…

Changing habit patterns takes first being conscious of the pattern, then making a decision to make a change, followed by action. Ask yourself a few questions about your habitual daily routine, then see if there are different choices you could make that would help to break the chains that hold you back from your true freedom.

Consider questions such as:
Am I getting up to the jarring sound of an alarm clock at “0 dark thirty” because I just can not wait to jump out of bed, drive in half an hour of traffic (or more) to go to an office and sit in a little box under florescent lights for 8 hours, then go back via the similar traffic to my home (that I have a huge mortgage to pay for every month just to sleep here)?

When I get home, am I energized from the work that I love doing, or am I too frazzled to want to do anything other than sit on the couch, with beer in hand and watch the TV so it can program my mind to go out and spend more money on something I do not really need, so that I have to stay in this endless cycle?

If you want you life to stay exactly as it is, do nothing. If you would like to see improvements, start to ask questions about the choices you are making and where possible, make choices that can provide different results in your life.

Till next time, when we can explore abundance and your energy account…

Merlyn