Decisions Made Thinking Change

Each American must assume the responsibility to join with the chosen leadership accepting the responsibility to make positive and progressive change happen in America.

Such responsibility must include "a grant of power", for without power it is simply "a mockery and a farce."

Individual Americans, families, organizations, will "put forth her/his best efforts to help himself or herself see to it that neither is deprived of the freedom and power to strive".(paraphrased W.E.B.Dubois-great educator/historian).
Decisions
This unique change being built up around Obama, (potential) President USA 2009-2012, let each of us be reminded, we are the possessor of a vast intelligence, of complete freedom of choice, of unlimited power. Over the past eight years or more, you have been lied to about this, have been mistreated and discouraged, and invalidated. Some of the discouragement and invalidation has probably become internalized and you have come to "believe" these discouragements limitations.
Voters, make a decision, now, today, by Tuesday, November 4, 2008, you do not need to go on believing these negative attitudes. Start, by voting for Obama, President USA. This is the beginning of our discharging all the pain and anguish, countless number of distresses. Throw off the fears and take control and leadership of your our life, your families, your organizations of positive progressive production as Americans, in America.

Thinking

Trust your own thinking. It will take thoughtful evaluation of your thinking to distinguish between your thinking and your feelings(chronic patterns that have increased daily over the years in oppressive environments that kept you working and, yet, receiving, little or no benefits. No Health. No Education. No Family Vacations, etc. You will always, from this point of a new USA Presidential leadership, be able to tell the difference if you check.

Trust your own thinking. You will make mistakes if you do anything meaningful at all, but if you are acting on your own thinking the results will quickly be noticed by you and you will correct the mistake promptly. If you have accepted someone else's thinking as your guide, you have already stopped thinking for yourself, and the mistakes will go uncorrected much longer.
Trust your own thinking. Trust your intuitions. Respect your hunches. Trust your "gut feelings." Trust your thinking.

Decisions

Some people say decision is not a defined term. Yet, my mentor explained it in a different way. Decision is defined in the sense that we are using it in these discussions as choosing one possibility where two possibilities are available.

A "fresh, accurate response to each moment of living" does involve a decision because in most situations there are components of the situation that cannot be understood or estimated exactly.

Typically we could make thousands of different responses in any given situation which would be accurate enough. To try for the optimum one will involve a decision as to which we think is the optimum one, or perhaps a decision as to how much time we want to spend waiting to come up with a more accurate decision.

To act within our freedom of decision is, I think, a very high level function and probably requires the complexity of our central nervous systems just as much as it does the intelligence.

At least, four functions of our central nervous system have been allowed to emerge that are qualitatively different than the functions of other forms of life. One is , intelligence, the ability to construct a new successful response to any given situation. Another is awareness, which is hard to define, but it is something about noticing what is going on while it is going on or thinking about thinking while thinking. Third is complete freedom of decision. And, fourth is complete power, the ability to handle the environment in ways so that it must respond to us in the way we want it to respond. These four functions are all different from each other. I think that making a decision is a different function than being intelligent.

If one is thinking easily, these perhaps will not seem to be distinct functions. You will respond intelligently and make your decisions all in one flow and not differentiate between the two functions. However, most of us have struggled with the penetration of much of our functioning by distress. We have been surrounded by intrusions of compulsive chronic patterns of our past into the details of our living, today.

Looking at the thousands and thousands of American voters going to the designated polling place, we have grasp the necessity of making a decision, which also involved struggling against a past, traditional chronic pattern(s), to do the "right" thing.

In much struggling, it has been extreme hardship on every American voter, especially, first-time voters(decision makers) to tell the difference between thinking and decision. At times, we believe they are one in the same.

Now that we have accepted our awareness of our complete freedom, as Americans, we use it, as a more forceful, less delicate, function than intelligence, more directly against our chronic patterns of our past.

We look forward to 3 more days of voting. For those of you who have yet to cast your vote: Go, quickly. Become a leader. Reach for your full functioning. Join those of us who are already committed and active.

Leadership can be enjoyable.

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