285. Self-Responsibility Is A Domino Effect
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Self-responsibility is one of the things that challenges us most as a collective. Sometimes I wonder if it’s generational, but I’m not entirely sure. Maybe it’s a millennial problem, or a boomer problem. But needless to say, it’s a problem.
So what is self-responsibility? Simply put, it’s the responsibility that we take for our existence. I think many times people think that self-responsibility is actually taking care of external factors in our life. But it’s simply just us, and how we react to things and control things, primarily ourself. Realistically, if we are just simply completely in control of our own self, our journey and our intuition, we would have quite an easy time throughout life. We cannot control our external environment, but we can control how energy processes through us. Often times when we’re not quite good at processing energy, this is reflected outward. I do feel that a lot of chaos and destruction in the world is a result of the collective not being too good at processing negative energy.
So how do we take better care of this issue? It’s really about transmission of energy, which I’ve talked about before and specifically have an article on. Not to pinpoint one overarching solution, but I do feel it’s the root cause of our problems, and really the one main or one large solution.
So how do we get to a place when/where we avoid self-responsibility in totality? The problem is when self-responsibility compounds. This is typically only an issue when you start to get older, I suspect around your 20’s. What happens is your deflection of self-responsibility is somewhat a catalyst for events in the future. You become much more solidified in not just your decisions, but the path that you pave as a result of those decisions. I think that people are very overwhelmed and scared about not just starting over, but even changing smaller aspects of their life. This intimidation drives them further and further from the point, and ultimately they become so afraid of addressing this, that they avoid it altogether, and fail at healing it.
So what about this domino effect? Say for example you experienced something traumatic or negative, and as a result of this, you made a finite decision. Maybe you decided to move due to fear and avoidance. This act of moving then in turn caused a substantial amount of other decisions and effects stemming from it. It may have dictated your future relationship, maybe even your future job. And this isn’t to say that one physical thing ultimately spawned/caused the rest of your decisions. After all, all of your decisions have autonomy. But you can start to see how this plays out. Often times this isn’t even in a physical sense. Say for example you’re dealing with issues of self-love. You in turn make several extremely small decisions because you are lacking this self-love. Maybe it ultimately affects any and every part of your daily routine. As your life goes on, you’ve ultimately constructed this somewhat “fake” life which again, was compounded by all of these little things.
It can become totally overwhelming to understand how much of your life is/was dictated by fear and negativity. Despite its inherent… negativity, I do feel that we go through these experiences for a reason. Not to be that parson that says ‘everything happens for a reason”. I think that people use this phrase to feel that their feelings aren’t being heard. But I do feel there’s truth to it, in that… the universe does have a larger plan. But anyway, back to the learning lessons. Not everything, despite my entire career’s purpose, needs to be intellectualized. Some things can just “be”. And after all, we’re doing the best that we can.
I think it’s really important to acknowledge that it’s never too late to take responsibility for your actions or inactions, no matter how pervasive they were/are. If you decide to change, you can not only change your life, but the lives of others. You no longer have to carry around this weight, and you can ultimately reverse the ancestry karma that you are unintentionally perpetuating. Try to take yourself out of the situation, as we are often times bound up by our ego. It doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person… it just means that you didn’t know. It can and will get better.
