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Hi, my name is David McLeod.
Consequences are the things we create when we take actions.
This is pretty obvious, wouldn't you say?
It's also pretty obvious, I think, that our words can—and do—have consequences as well.
But, what's not so obvious, perhaps, is that our thoughts can have consequences, too.
Thoughts are far more powerful than we tend to acknowledge, and since we all have so many
different thoughts during any given day, we can easily write them off as essentially random
and unimportant.
And this can lead into an illusion that no one individual thought can be all that powerful.
But just take a look around you for a moment.
That clock on your wall, for example.
Or the chair you're sitting on.
The room you're in.
That car that you drive.
And so on, and so on.
If you think about it, every one of the things I just mentioned is the product of someone's imagination.
Every one of those things began its existence with a single thought!
In other words, every thought has the potential to manifest in our physical reality.
But you know what? There are other ways that thoughts can manifest too.
For example, have you ever found yourself dwelling on a thought for a long period of
time, perhaps something that had you worried or concerned?
You can probably think of many times in your life when you were pondering or contemplating
something that seemed to take up a lot of your attention.
And did you perhaps notice that your preoccupation with this thing—whatever it might have been—may
have distracted you from other things in your life that were equally important?
In other words, simply thinking about something had consequences—very real consequence,
in fact—even if there was nothing physical manifested in the world.
This is because your thinking affected your behaviors in ways that you probably didn't
consider when you first started engaging the thought process.
Well, this sort of thing can happen to any of us at any time if we stay unconscious to
how busy our minds can become.
If we allow ourselves to get all caught up in the incredibly entertaining stories that our minds
like to make up, then we risk creating consequences in our lives that we didn't necessarily intend.
And sometimes these consequences can be quite damaging.
Well, this is where self-responsibility comes in.
For me, self-responsibility means committing myself to taking control of my ego-mind so
that it doesn't take over and run the show—and ruin my life in the process!
Of course, I'm still human, so in spite of all my best intentions, I'm still going to
slip from time-to-time and then find myself in the midst of some kind of chaos that I've
inadvertently created.
When this happens, then self-responsibility can be my friend once again, because now I
have the opportunity to correct my mistake and clean up any mess I might have created.
I also have the opportunity to take full accountability for my actions—even if they were completely unconscious.
When I do this, I regain my connection with anyone I might accidentally have hurt, and
I get to bring myself back into integrity with who I really am.
Self-responsibility is the quickest way for me to get back in alignment with my Spiritually
Empowered Life Force, my SELF, my inner authority.
If you want to stay connected with your Soul's purpose, I encourage you to deepen your practice of self-responsibility.
I think you'll find that staying in integrity—or coming back into integrity when you happen
to falter—is one of the most fulfilling ways to be in the world.
May you have a deliciously self-responsible week!