Everything Matters

Everything creates an energy. Don’t we want to make sure that the energies we create and support are ones we would choose to have in the world?

I thought I made good decisions. We can always look deeper.

For two years, during every possible moment of a full time job that was highly unaligned with who I am, I began to find solace in consuming an unending stream of lectures and podcasts about people discovering and creating amazing things in the areas of health, psychology, relationships, business, creativity, and spiritual awareness.

I didn’t have an agenda, aside from occupying my mind with something other than the clock and to turn my job into an opportunity to learn well beyond what it was teaching me. For once, I didn’t waste my time with anything that bored me or felt like something I “should” know more about. I just let my interests guide me. That little spark in the chest.

Because of this, it was like being gifted a full time job of rediscovering myself. An unintended but effective study in positive brainwashing. Maybe not brainwashing as much as deconditioning. I discovered a vast amount about myself using the tools, self-inquiry, and practices I was learning, paying attention to all the norms they were calling into question and seeing the direct effects on my life.

Their stories, however varied, as well as what I began to see shift in my life by implementing what I was learning, brought the same theme up over and over- Everything matters. What we put into our bodies matters. Where we source our food matters. The materials and products we allow to touch our skin matter. Where and how our products are made matters. The ways in which we interact matter. The things we spend our money on matter. The things we tell ourselves matter, and the things we place our attention on matter. They all affect us. They affect our health, relationships, mood, ability to create, ability to think clearly, our ability to help others, our ability to achieve what we want, and thus, they affect our lives and the entire world.

This is why every choice must be a conscious one. This doesn’t necessarily mean we have to think and rethink about every little thing, and we don’t have to do it all at once. It means that, in an age where we have so much unlimited access to external and internal information- there are no longer excuses.

If you don’t know why you make the choices you make, get curious and find out. If you know why you like something, but you don’t know where it comes from or how it impacts the world and its living beings- find out. Then decide if you still like it.

Our decisions create our experiences and therefore the scaffolding of our existence.

Every time I learned about how something worked, it made me want to make a different decision. A different choice about how I interacted with the world and how I could support it instead of take away from it. Everything has a consequence. I learned more and more what I didn’t want in my body, what I didn’t want to be responsible for, and that I didn’t want to be an active participant in many of the energies that were being put out because of what I didn’t know before. What most people don’t know, unless they decide to learn about it.

Everyone has come to this world for a very specific life. While that life can be played out in a multitude of iterations and combinations, there is still a structure for what sorts of experiences we want to have. So it’s our choices that create and the level of consciousness we bring to our choices that creates the details. Allow your choices to be a curation born of awareness, attention, intention- consciousness in action.

If you feel called to examine your choices more deeply, a Reading can offer personalized insight into the patterns shaping your life.