Bust Out Of Your Rut: Open Up To Possibility

WELLNESS | by POSY GERING

EUCLID SAID IT 2,500 years ago: “Through any given point an infinite number of lines may pass.” It is one of the axioms of geometry … and it works for life decisions as well.

We easily make 10,000 decisions everyday. Most are pretty routine: coffee or tea? The red sweater or the blue sweatshirt? Soup or sandwich? It’s interesting how much we limit ourselves to a single choice. We put ourselves in the middle of an “on/off,” “this/that,” “good/bad,” “right/wrong” mentality. It’s more like a computer than a person.

The way you pose the choice usually reflects a particular mental rut of “the only way it can be.” However, there is much more, namely, what might be possible. Getting to a greater range of possibility requires two things: First, pause and slow down the race to the solution. Second, soften your mental stance,  and allow yourself to receive new information. There are a hundred or a thousand possible responses.