Mediation on Making a Decision

HOW TO ASSIST YOUR DECISION MAKING
When travel was slower and life required more uncommitted time there was opportunity to review. Today decision making is so often an intellectual exercise.

So, let’s create an environment a visualisation, create a space in a few minutes where decisions can be more effectively addressed. Find a quiet time, you must be undisturbed, and arrange yourself comfortably.

Now let your mind focus, focus on the screen of your imagination, see yourself, you are in a busy shopping mall, with many people and noise, hustle and bustle, clamour and business. Through this crowd you walk, shoulder to shoulder, pass bright lights, and shops. People getting shoulder massages, thriving food courts, cleaners with mops, piped music, foreign languages surround you. You are walking, walking towards an elevator, you step on and it takes you to a lower level, stainless steel glinting, a coloured lighted button, a downward lift opens. You step in and push the coloured button, the lift starts to descend. The floor lights flash past 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, G. The door slides open with a slight sigh, and you step out into a lighted foyer. .... Quietness. In front of you is a heavy adzed studded door of wood. A dark stained colour with brass fastenings. Your hand reaches out grasping the handle. You turn the handle and push the door open and walk through the open door way. The door closes behind you ... Quietness ... You are in a room. A large room. Empty. Make it as you will. Now start to build your space, what views, what balconies, windows, warm or cool. Cosy fire or a fresh breeze, from porch windows or doors. Now decorate your space. Use your emotions; reach down deep for feelings of comfort, security, relaxation, happiness. Reflect these in the development of your space.
Do you want a special companion who will come and go as you wish. Stretch out on the settee or carpet, chair or bed.

Be at peace, this is your personal space, no-one can enter without your bidding, it will be yours forever, you can visit it as you wish, the smells, sensations, and sights are available to you alone. Your place.

Now let your mind clearly define the question, the decision, (or stress). Staying in your space allow your mind to explore the reasons behind the decision, the possible outcome of each and every action you could take. Remember happiness comes from providing values in life. Which scenario will provide values for others, values for you, use your feelings, your brain (the computer) will process these. Allow time for the correct answer to evolve.
When ready, prepare to leave. Rise, gather your personals, close windows, door, attend to the fire, turn out your lights, open the door through which you came, into the foyer, into the lift, and up pass the floors as the lift rises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. The door of the lift opens. You step out onto the elevator and rise again to the bright lights of the shopping mall, back with the hustle and bustle of the day. The clamour of society, the projection of our culture. For you there will always be your space, your retreat. You and only you have created it. As you move on you realise a freedom, any heaviness or depression is cut in half. Now action (in place of activity) can follow. The decision is made. Decisions right today may not be right “ tomorrow”. We are empowered to always make another decision.
(The word decision comes from the Latin word “ desisor” meaning “to cut in half”. How often the final relief from depression is the making of a decision)