Self-Analysis II

Remember what I first wrote about here, in Self-Analysis; where I talked about self analysis and I wondered if we shouldn't take time, weekly at least, to analyze ourselves and see what there is, if anything, to change.  Actually, I didn't wonder, but emphatically said that we should take time weekly to see if we're doing the things that we've decided to do in the past.




You see, all of us, every single one of us, lives our life from moment to moment and the moment we're living currently was decided by the moment we've just lived.  In other words, we are a synthesis of our past, where we have been acting/deciding, our present--where our future dreams, hopes, worries, fears, knowledge, and beliefs, are in the present moment and where our decisions take place and our actions turn into doing and not just thinking/sitting/laying/falling/wondering, and our future--what our actions will be, what our beliefs will be, and what our knowledge and beliefs will be after our present choice is made.

Almost all of us live our lives on autopilot and are making decisions only based on what would feel good to us, or sometimes based on what we've already chosen in the past, and this is good and necessary.  We can't be making brand new choices every second of every day or we would become exhausted at the very thought of acting.  Make decisions based on the past decisions that have gone well.  Only by doing that can we have the energy to move forward.  Only when we know what is the best way to move, and we move that direction, can we know that we are going in the right direction.

As I said before in Self-Analysis I, as a counselor, I have learned that in order to counsel with someone we should be in a state of relative congruence. That means that I shouldn't be acting in a way that's contrary to the things that I know to be right and good. Shouldn't all of us be living in such a state? Shouldn't all of us be living according to that which we know and believe to be right and good and true?

JPS