I Am Responsible For Me

When I read Douglas Adams excellent books and listened to the absolute classic: “The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” on the radio, I realised he had spent his whole adult life frustrated at the apparent random combination of events that happened in his life, the world, the universe.

He could see no cause and effect,  no action / reaction,  no correlation between what people sow and what people reap. He concluded finally, that it was all just happening by random (I won’t spoil the story if you haven’t read/heard it).

However, this century, there have been many Personal Growth and Self Help Teachers, (Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale to name just a few), telling us since the 1900’s that:

·       what we think about,

·       what we focus on

·       what we dwell on

·       what we meditate on

·       what we habitually talk about,

we actually become,

and we draw those imagined situations into our lives.

Again, this is no new 20th century revelation, even the Bible says in Proverbs: “As a person thinks, so they are”. And in Job: “That which I have feared has come upon me”.

So, it would appear there is a DIRECT LINK between what goes on in our heads, and the circumstances that unfold in our lives.

Now, we have to be veeerrrry gentle introducing this idea. I’ve noticed it makes people really angry.

Firstly, because they realise, there was a way out all the time, and they never knew it.

Secondly, it makes them responsible for themselves. This is a hard one, because we have been told all our lives, that we are controlled by external sources, other people’s opinions, or the weather gets us down etc.

“See now you’ve upset your brother/sister”.

“It wasn’t my fault, she/he made me do it”.

Do I really have such power over people? To make them feel/do things?

Do other people really have such power over me? To make me feel/do things?

Can I allow this? Can I disallow this?

My reactions to realising this principle, was:

Past  -  Could parts of my unpleasant past have been avoided, if I’d thought differently?

Present  -  Am I in this current condition because my thoughts attracted it to me?

Future  -  Excitement! Can I really affect my future? Can I really be a deliberate creator using my thoughts?

Realising I am responsible for me, my past, my present, my future, my actions, my words, my thoughts, was so FREEING.