Is Your Life Mapped Out?: Unravelling the mystery of destiny vs free will<\/a><\/i>\u2019 to attempt to set my own mind at rest. This is what I came up with:<\/p>\nR=IEBpFeFiOX<\/p>\n
Before you go, \u201cwhhooooaaaaa, hey what\u2019s with the math?<\/i>\u201d it\u2019s actually much simpler than you think. Let me explain what the letters mean.<\/p>\n
\u2018R\u2019 is the letter I use for \u2018The Reality that you experience\u2019 and it\u2019s caused by the letters that come after it. Here\u2019s what they mean:<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019 is your intention. It\u2019s the force of you Intending for something to happen, which often results in you acting on your intentions, or subconsciously setting in motion a chain of events that move you towards your goal.<\/p>\n
\u2018E\u2019 stands for your emotions. Emotion is a powerful force. If you have an intention to achieve something but your overall emotion about it is negative then emotion usually over rules intention and you don\u2019t go anywhere. Alternatively, when you have a goal and you feel strongly positive when you think about it, you tend to move towards it (or attract it to you).<\/p>\n
\u2018B\u2019 stands for your beliefs. Beliefs can propel you to where you want to go or they can sabotage your efforts. Say you had a desire to be financially abundant but had a belief that it\u2019s wrong to have money because people are starving, or that people with money are selfish or unkind, or that money is the \u2018root of all evil\u2019, for instance, then chances are these beliefs will over rule your intention to have money. No matter how hard you try, something will always seem to block your efforts.<\/p>\n
You can usually tell what kind of beliefs you have about something by looking at your life. Stuff and experiences in your life that you are happy with, that tend to come easily to you, usually represent positive beliefs. Stuff and experiences you feel frustrated you\u2019re not having usually signal negative beliefs in those areas. It\u2019s best if your beliefs are in line with what you want to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u2018p\u2019 stands for \u2018momentum of your current experience\u2019. Just like a large ship in the ocean can\u2019t make a sudden 90 degree turn, but turns throughout a large arc due to it\u2019s weight, or momentum, so most people, when they decide to make a life change, still experience elements (circumstances, types of people, etc) of their old life for a while as their life turns in an arc rather than in a sudden straight line off to the right or left. Intention works a lot with momentum because the stronger your intention, the faster you break your momentum and the shorter the turning arc in your life.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fe\u2019 stands for external forces. These are forces in your environment that have an impact on your life and the kind of choices you make. They can be the weather, \u2018chronobiological\u2019, in terms of how the Earth\u2019s rotation, the sun, and the moon can impact biology, they can be effects of food, or anything else that represents how we interact with our natural environment. They can even represent the physical or social environment a person lives in, which can be a very strong force for some.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fi\u2019 stands for internal forces. These are what I refer to as spiritual forces. I believe that consciousness transcends time and space and thus \u2018You\u2019 existed in some form or other before you were born on Earth. Rather than your life being a random event, then, it is likely that you were born at a particular time (given the entire span of Earth\u2019s history) in a particular place, into a particular set of social and economic conditions, even into a particular family environment, and often with a latent skill set or direction you intended to move towards. These \u2018preconditions\u2019 would set the tone of the early years of your life, which would then have a strong bearing on the kind of adult you become and the direction of your life. When I talk of \u2018destiny\u2019, this is what I refer to.<\/p>\n
\u2018O\u2019 stands for the effect of other people on you. We\u2019re all influenced by other people \u2013 either directly, by family, friends, colleagues, or even people we meet throughout our day, or indirectly, as world events affect the financial or social environment that we live and move in, or as our choices are influenced by marketing efforts, propaganda, or just information we pick up through watching or reading the media.<\/p>\n
\u2018X\u2019 is for any other forces that I haven\u2019t though of. \ud83d\ude42 I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve not thought of everything.<\/p>\n
So the reality that you experience is related to your intentions, your emotions, your beliefs, the momentum of what\u2019s currently happening in your life, external forces, internal (spiritual) forces, and the influence of other people.<\/p>\n
So how do these forces interact with one another? Well, I think we are born into a set of conditions and circumstances that set the landscape of our lives and its colour tones. As we travel through our landscape, we are occasionally pulled left and right and even nudged back or sucked forwards from time to time. But amid these \u2018winds\u2019, we are always choosing, always creating, always shaping our lives. It is impossible not to. Thoughts are creative. What we focus on we move towards. That, too me, is a Law. Some call it the \u2018Law of Attraction\u2019 or the \u2018Secret\u2019.<\/p>\n
Some people believe in destiny, others don\u2019t. What I\u2019ve written here is just my belief, coloured, perhaps, by the influences I\u2019ve experienced in my life and also by what I\u2019ve always sensed. In some ways I\u2019ve sought scientific evidence to explain what I\u2019ve always believed.<\/p>\n
Whether you take comfort in an overall direction you feel you\u2019re supposed to be going in or whether you\u2019re more motivated in taking the actions that are necessary to get to where you want to get to is up to you. We\u2019re all different. Some are more comfortable with the former, some with the latter.<\/p>\n
As long as you\u2019re comfortable with whatever you personally believe, then great. Happiness and contentedness arise when we\u2019re comfortable with our own beliefs, regardless of whether there is an ultimate truth or not.<\/p>\n
Personally, I think destiny and free will interact constantly, just as nature and nurture interact. Genes do not act out with their environment, but in relationship with it.<\/p>\n
So, too, do our hopes and dreams play out in relationship to our environment – both physical and spiritual.<\/p>\n
Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\nDr David R Hamilton, ‘Is Your Life Mapped Out? Unravelling the mystery of destiny vs free will’ (Hay House, 2012). (Amazon.co.uk paperback<\/a>) ( Amazon.co.uk kindle<\/a>) ( Amazon.com paperback<\/a>) ( Amazon.com kindle<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re like most people, you\u2019ve probably wondered whether things are meant to be \u2013 are you destined to be with that special person, or to have that job, or that friend, that dog, or that really difficult time in your life? Or do we create it all as we go along? If you\u2019re like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,137],"tags":[136,48,140,232,83,233],"yoast_head":"\n
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