Don’t you just love the saying, “You can’t change what happens to you but you can change how you respond”? I love that affirmation because it empowers me to make better choices now for a more positive tomorrow. However, the Guides recently shared that this philosophy is only part of the complete energetic picture:
“You have heard it said that you may not be able to change what happens to you but you can change how you respond. However, that is only half of the equation. What you need to know is that by changing how you respond, you change the effect. Therefore, the full equation you need to memorize is:
You may not be able to change what happens to you but you can change how you respond. And by changing how you respond, you change the effect.“
When we think about all the ways life can lay itself out, we realize it is like a giant web of possibilities. When something happens near us, we have the power to choose whether we turn right or left at that juncture. But what the Guides are further reminding us is that there is a subtle alchemical reaction that is triggered by each choice we make.
It would seem that our conscious choices retroactively stimulate certain elements in the original equation to manifest. If I choose response “A,” the original event affects me later with an energy of joy and empowerment. If I choose response “B,” the original event later fills me with a sense of fear and limitation. Because linear time does not exist in Energetic Reality, the cause and effect relationship can run forward and backward with our response actually precipitating specific results from the original event after the fact. Hard to wrap the mind around, but amazing to contemplate all the same.
What this means is that I have the power to alter how a circumstance affects my life later. When I am in a difficult situation and I choose to respond with positive Energy, the original circumstance affects me in a different way than if I had chosen to respond with resistance and fear. The initial event appears the same, but my response triggers a different effect in my reality than if I had unconsciously trudged forward in pessimism or anger.
So the next time an unexpected event pops up in your life, realize your full power in the situation. Not only do you have the power to choose your response, you also have the power to extract from the original circumstance the kind of Energy you wish to have dominate your life in the days to come.
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