| Imagine the following scenario: A woman buys her | | | | usually only one reason: We made choices, and |
| lunch every day from a fast food outlet near her | | | | these choices were based on our thought |
| job. After some years, she finds herself 30 | | | | patterns at the time that we made them. |
| pounds overweight, and feeling unhealthy and | | | | The good news is that our thinking and our |
| lethargic. So what does she do? She chooses to | | | | choices are changeable. Nothing is set in stone! |
| bring a lawsuit against the fast food outlet, | | | | There is time to right the wrongs. |
| claiming that the food served there was the | | | | We have a responsibility to ourselves and to the |
| cause of her being overweight and in poor health. | | | | world to stop blaming those around us and start |
| Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? The only thing more | | | | looking inside ourselves for the answers. Yet |
| absurd than the story itself is the fact that it is | | | | changing our thinking is only the first step. |
| not fiction. There are people who have sued fast | | | | Once we have mastered the art of positive, |
| food chains for causing their weight problems. | | | | creative consciousness, we have the ability to |
| This is an example of one of the ways in which | | | | make choices and choose actions that will |
| many of us spend enormous amounts of energy | | | | enhance our lives and bring us closer to our |
| trying to deny the undeniable and universal fact | | | | purpose and destiny. |
| that we are all ultimately responsible for our own | | | | Imagine that a woman decided that she was |
| choices and our own lives. | | | | unhappy with the extra pounds she'd gained after |
| How much easier would we make it for ourselves | | | | many years of eating fast food on a regular basis. |
| if we could accept this fact rather than resist it? | | | | Imagine that this woman took the time to really |
| But how can we embrace the truth: that we are | | | | understand and accept that she - and no one else |
| living the lives we choose to live, that we are | | | | - was responsible for her eating choices. Having |
| enjoying or suffering the consequences of our | | | | acknowledged this fact, she then decides to make |
| own choices, and that blaming others for our | | | | the changes in her lifestyle to become the |
| problems and shortcomings is nothing more than a | | | | healthier, slimmer person she wants to be. |
| comfortable fantasy? | | | | Instead of looking to blame someone or |
| We must acknowledge the truth of our lives, | | | | something else, she's now chosen to make the |
| however unpleasant this may be. If we are | | | | changes necessary in her thoughts and actions to |
| overweight, in a bad relationship, in a dead-end | | | | create the life they want. |
| job, we need to accept that this is where we are, | | | | It is not an easy road, but it is the only |
| at this moment in time. | | | | worthwhile path to take. Personal growth depends |
| If we don't accept the truth of our situation, it will | | | | on taking responsibility for your life, no matter |
| be impossible to figure out how we arrived in this | | | | how good (or bad) it may seem. |
| place where we do not want to be. And there is | | | | |