| This one can be so easily summed up: “not having choice = dead”.
The fact is – there is ALWAYS choice. And yet so often we say “we have no choice”. Viktor Frankl’s book: “Man’s Search for Meaning”, is one of the most profound works on the idea of choice, and his quotes here are equally meaningful: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Tips to use this NLP presupposition choice:Take a little time at all junctions, at all moments of choice, to review the choices you actually have. There will be many – the choice to go left or right, the choice to act or the choice not to act. Even the choice when to breathe. Choice is highly empowering, and once we embed the idea of choice in our lives, we go from living a life at effect to living a life at cause. |
