Many life and even spiritual practices are concerned primarily with strengthening resolve so, if you have trouble with making a decision and sticking to it, like mostly all of us, there are a few things you can do.
For example, going on a fast is not of much consequence, unless the purpose is primarily to stick to the decision. From doing that, we begin to create a centre within us and also an inner discipline; not the sort in the army where blind obedience is encouraged so the men can carry out their duties without thinking about it, but the sort where they evolve as human beings. This discipline in times of war is good in that it’s designed to safe guard the men in times where not thinking but action is required.
Over the passage of time, people forgot that the many techniques, resources, trainings and methods devised either for life itself or even meditation were essentially to help people make a decision and stick to it, as doing this seems beyond the reach of many.
Isn’t it great when we decide to do something important and stay with the decision even if it means nothing to anyone else? Basically, the idea is to exercise our inner resolve where we have decided to do something and stick by that decision.
Anything can be used to strengthen our will; for example driving down the road and only looking at the road and nothing else, not being distracted by billboards, advertisements or other diversions.
Alternatively, you can look at your watch hand and see how long you can do that without thinking of anything else; just focus on the second hand going around and around. The minute you think of something else you lost awareness and resolve, and need to start again.
If we are determined to do something and successfully do it, our energy within becomes stronger; we become more and more cool, calm, collected and centred. We attain centeredness within ourselves, and for the first time we are not floating accidentally in the sea of life, but we have some say over our life and our destiny and a hope borne out of experience not blind faith.
The point is, we can follow any experiment that will help us strengthen our inner discipline, but generally it’s better to start with the small challenges first.
If someone is asked to close his eyes for awhile and just sit there without being fidgety, he finds it hard to do. Think about this: If he can’t do that much, you can’t expect much else from this person apart from being a cog in a wheel.
Where to start?
Start from the place where the outcome will give you the most joy.
Chris Borrett
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