On Indecisiveness

by Leonard Jacobson

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Most of us live in indecision.
We cannot decide what we want.
Or even worse, we are split in what we want.
A part of us wants to go forward.
Another part of us wants to go back.
A part of us wants to leave our job.
Another part of us is afraid to leave.
A part of us wants company.
Another part of us wants to be alone.
We cannot decide what we want.
And so we begin to feel stuck in indecision.
Our energy becomes blocked.
We have interrupted the flow of life
with our indecision. Life cannot give us
what we want because we do not know
what we want. Life cannot respond to us
appropriately because we are giving out
contradictory messages that are impossible
to respond to.

Suppose that you are walking down a road
and you come to a fork in the road.
If you take the left fork,
you will come to the beach.
If you take the right fork,
you will come to the forest.
You sit there wondering which way to go.
You love the beach but you also love the forest.
You cannot decide and so you remain there.
You are stuck.
As ong as you remain in indecision,
you will go nowhere.
You will enjoy neither beach nor forest.
Even if you walk to the beach,
you will still be thinking about the forest.
And so you haven't really arrived
at the beach at all. A part of you
is still at the forest and you are split.
All you have to do is make a true decision
and you will come into wholeness.
Your energy will unblock as the life force
begins to flow again.
You will get what you want.
When you make a true decision, the
outcome is assured. In truth, the outcome is
contained within the decision.

If you decide to take the left fork,
just turn left and continue walking.
You will surely arrive at the beach.
Do not think about the right fork.
Forget about the forest.
Let your desire to go to the forest
dissolve completely.

When you are caught in indecision,
you are caught between two alternatives.
You are caught in two possible choices.
In other words, you are caught within duality,

Which means that you are caught in the mind.
To decide means to cut away from.
A true decision results in a cutting away
from the two to the One.
With a true decision, you choose one
and the other falls away completely.
There isno lingering in the alternative choice.
A true decision brings you out of the mind
and into the present moment.
It awakens you and empowers you.
It is like saying to God
"I am here now. And I know what I want."
And God will be relieved.
Now God can give you what you want."

- excerpt from
Bridging Heaven & Earth
by Leonard Jacobson

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