A Conundrum of Choice

Trajectories of the Tao by Janice Brown

It’s optional to choose your Light or your Dark.

Why do you think you planned it this way? This is where a simple recollection can seem like a staggering awareness, and this happens when you put it into the correct framework. I’ll show you how a simple choice can be carried out with influence from many sources beyond your control and the simple thing that is.

Here's a key understanding: When you have a hard time making a decision, you’re not ready to make a decision. This in itself opens up space to be in consideration of more data, more insight, and more awareness.

Think about it like this. How is it going to work out for you if you push and pull from the same direction over time?

It’s like pushing a limp rope across the floor; it just folds up on itself. Recognize that you could simply walk to the other end and pull it straight forward; then you’re moving in the same direction as the energy.

It’s not complicated, but we get hard on ourselves during times of inertia, and inertia has its point too. Allow it to unfold because it’s going to conglomerate a few energetics and bring some power back into the playing field of your corner.

Now what if it seems like I rally then fall, rally then I fall? This hapens Uwhen you try to hasten inertia, understand that this is not a failing; it simply means that there are not enough residual resources to move you forward. What then? Well, this is a great time to make a conscious choice towards a pause.

A pause allows all energies to come into their own rhythm without a forced anticipation. And anticipation is a beautiful thing, but it must be allowed to unfold. It’s a tracking pattern error that pushes people forward towards haste.

Now, what do I mean by that?

I mean that if you want to take a raft and drift down the river, there is no point in paddling upstream. And if you want to take your raft and drift it out to sea, you better bring a few days supplies because it’s not where you are applying the energy; it’s when.

Back to the scenario where the raft on the river requires no effort—zero effort, actually—to drift with the current. Turn it around and back it up the river, and you’ll still drift down the river to the lake, the ocean, or wherever you go with zero effort applied.

Now move to the ocean scenario, and you are going to want to be very strategic with where you put your energetic efforts. There’s a time to sail, a time to paddle, and a time to float, each of these behaviours requiring a different force, and none of them necessarily applied in the same direction.

Do you see how this begins to play out in the experiences of your life? You could, for lack of a better word, be completely inert, and you’d still be moving in a different direction. And this is how we know what flow feels like—by a complete lack of efforting.

Now that is not to say that no action is required. Action is a necessary component of a movement of force, and that’s how we need to look at it: are we moving by force or by flow?

Flow will captivate us, have us vested, feel like sunshine and flowers some days, and completely on task the next. It’s not a state of non-action; it’s a state of non-resistance, and that’s a very important distinction.

Go out for a walk and sit by the roadside and watch all the non-action and action happening around you. You’ll find that the one thing that keeps occurring is that the terrain in front of you keeps turning back into the way it looked to you a moment before. That’s a weird thing to say. It’s because the trajectory of the terrain is as it is meant to be.

In the realization of your worth, you’ll find the same thing happens to you. You’ll always be who you are meant to be, and when that doesn’t seem to be what you are experiencing, you need to take a pause and see where you are being pushed across the floor or moving in a straight forward direction.

When you can see it, you’ll know where your decision-making power lies—in the choice you make in the moment.

Yes. More of this. or No. Not more of this.

Past experience doesn’t have to bear down on the choice point. When you can see the rhythm pattern, it’s a simple natural progression.

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A few definitions for you on Trajectories of the Tao.

In a global sense, Trajectories of the Tao have an overarching need for fulfillment.

• Confluence Points: where two or more energies come together.

• Points of Interaction: Brief encounter with counterpart relationships in interaction.

• Points of Distortion: Inability to sustain the self.

• Points of Clarity: A key understanding that can’t be disputed, it will prevail.

• Points of Dissolution: Removal of an energetic; results in a forced self-connection.

• Points of Conglomeration: Where two or more energies fold into itself.

• Points of Inevitability: Bound to happen. The energy in its rhythm will move forward.

• Points of Persuasion: Trifecta of reasoning, data, and distortion.

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Trajectories of the Tao

by Rev. Janice Brown DTCM, sp.M (master), CS.p

Janice is both a doctor of Chinese medicine and a Reverend with a metaphysical practice that specializes in the Tao. This includes exploring the 'Me', the independent or the individual. The individual benefit of understanding the wisdom of the Tao and the application of these understandings in your own life experience. This also includes the 'We', the collective whole. The collective benefit is to begin to see that we have an interdependence that is so intrinsic to the framework of living that we can not go a single day without the collective experience being enfolded into our personal life experience.

Recommended Reading:

• Tributes to the Tao by Janice

• Daily Pulse, rhythm of the Tao by Dr. Debra Ford Msc.D

• Book I: The SolePath Book of Wisdom, The Essential SolePath Academic Reference by Dr. Debra Ford Msc.D