Mynda Mansfield – Close the Gap between Vision and Action!

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Human beings are complicated creatures. Graced with the gift of ‘free will’ we have the innate ability to choose to change, grow and evolve. We can choose to notice our conditioned behaviour and break free of the cycles that keep us doing the same old thing – which, of course, result in us having the same old experience. And yet it is not really as simple as making a choice; although that is the essential starting point.

We are conditioned by everything and everyone that has gone before us. The thousands of years of human experience, the good, the bad and the ugly, are present with us now, stored at the level of collective cellular memory which  is not selective – it is simply a recording device. Whatever has occurred in the mass consciousness of humanity is imprinted into our codes; so, in fact, we are not as free as we think we are, as this fact tends to keep us walking well-trodden pathways so that we can quantify the outcomes.

The urge and motivation to change, to recognise and live more in accordance with the higher self, to serve the innate Spirit that inhabits each individual, is often short-circuited by clinging to the familiar. This is self-defeating as the outcomes of the familiar, although quantifiable, are very often not those that we seek. So in order to exercise that great gift of free will we need to do something different. “If you do what you’ve always done,  you’ll get what you’ve always got!”

We always seek to make those resolutions and commitments that we have managed to avoid in the past. And it is noble and vital to set new goals and to resolve to change habits and patterns that are not serving body, mind, heart and soul. But as a wise woman once said: “Vision without Action  is merely distraction.” We must activate our resolutions by becoming conscious of the causes of our habitual self-defeating tendencies. This takes a willingness to examine the habits, to bring them to the surface of our awareness, to trace their origins (which we often need human or angelic assistance with) and then, with understanding, to let them go.

One of the keys to the success of any process of change is to know, with clarity, what will replace the habit or pattern that is passing away. It is one thing to cease doing the thing we wish to overcome, but that creates a vacuum, and nature abhors a vacuum. So along with the resolution about what we wish to bid farewell to, we must envision what we wish to welcome into our lives.