Decision or Choice? Get clear of the reason vs the cause

Decision vs choice has been a recurring topic last weeks’, as well as regrets about the past doings or non-doings.

Effective decision making flows from a place of choice

Effective decision making flows best from a place of choice. When we can make a conscious effort to free ourselves from fear and perceived limitations to get there. Open our mind to all possibilities, without feeling restricted. When we are here - nothing seems like an insurmountable problem! Instead, there are only opportunities for growth and discovery. Nothing can stop you!

The place of choice is the crossroads between feeling fulfilled and aligning with your own values. Only after you have identified the place of choice can you move on to the point of decision, which is where you finally consider all options and decide what to do

Choices are connected to reasons, decisions to causes

Broken down, choices connect to the place of desired intention, values and beliefs. Decision connects to the place of behavior, performance and consequences.
You might even say that choices are connected to reasons and decisions are connected to causes.
This is the core distinction between choice and decision

How to create clarity when you feel lost?

So what to do if everything is just a big blur!!?
When the mind is going crazy about making the right or wrong decision.
Or when nothing feels like a choice!
Stop, take a moment (maybe even a few breaths ;) ) and invite in those potential fears or catastrophic (in-mind) scenarios. Identify your feelings, whether positive or negative, so you can make inspired choices and clear, robust decisions. By visiting the place of choice first, you can obtain the confidence needed to stay motivated and take bold, life-changing actions. Recognise, even understand or appreciate the difference between choosing and deciding. It can actually be key to stop having regrets about the past doings or non-doings. 

Then. Take the decision. Or, better - make the choice.
Nothing usually happens until you do anyways except leaking your energy.

Nothing happens until you make the decision

Nothing happens until you make the decision. Getting still, and creating space to listen to our inner voice can give you clarity, hesitation can give us a chance to draw back. To explore what that hesitation is all about could be a hard, but quite intriguing and potentially beneficial task. 

And know that sometimes, before it gets clear-  it might get even more blurry.
And sometimes, before we find our direction - we might feel lost.
And sometimes when it's too loud or noisy inside - we might need the silence to really hear. Even if Patience is loudly banging at the door.
Slow down.
Tune out of the distractions, tune into you.

Breathwork for clarity

Breathwork is a really good and highly effective tool to connect you closer to your heart, which oftentimes can make the choice clearer and the decision easier. Some say Breathwork is a therapeutic session between You and You, others that one session can feel like 15 years of therapy. Truth is, every single session differs in experience. And thats the thing - Breathwork needs to be experienced. It may not always take you where you want to go, but usually where you need to go. But what I know for sure - you never regret a Breathwork session. Maybe because you made an active choice to come :)

If you would like to read about mental, physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of Breathwork - go here.

Breathwork Online

If you would like to join in a live group session online, you find upcoming sessions below. To do breathwork online, from the comfort of your home, is wonderful. You get to experience a deep and profound breathwork session to release stress, or relief nervous system blockages. And even though you are at home in your own space - you still get the community of others.

The sessions are held via Zoom and are just as powerful as in-person Breathwork sessions. You can relax in the comfort of your home while being guided through headphones or speakers, and you have the ability to enjoy a longer integration phase in deep relaxation. Most often you feel lighter and empowered afterwards.

Breathwork Stockholm

If you are in Stockholm and would like to breathe in person in a group, join in at the Loft - a cosy hide away in the middle of Östermalm (Nybrogatan), Stockholm.

This session combines an active Breathwork technique with Reiki energy healing, ant the session will most likely land you in your body to consciously move through and release energetic or physical blockages. This style of breathing is sometimes called a releasing breathwork, and is a beautiful tool to gain clarity, enhance creativity and a connect closer to you.