Before beginning, this is the second part of my article with the same name. It is requested that you read the predecessor to this article.
You can either manually search for the article titled “An Exploration of our Decision Making process” published in “Gain Inspiration” publication… or click the following link to read the preceding article: https://medium.com/gain-indpiration/image-credits-starry-ai-c9885c8e884b.
Part 2 begins from here:
As you gradually begin to see that the decisions that we make are actually the effect of our heavens pulling us, or our hells pushing us away. This can actually create an opportunity to become better at achieving our goals. As Professor Jordan Peterson puts it in one of his speeches, “Why not use both, our heavens as well as our hells, in order to become a better version of ourselves?”
Suppose that you want to quit smoking, then you can create your heaven by imagining how satisfied and happy you will be by giving up the habit, how happy your family will be, etc. This created “Heaven” can be used as a “pull” to achieve your goal. Simultaneously, you can create your hell by imagining what would happen if you err in quitting the habit (your health, etc.). This created “Hell” can be used as a “push” towards achieving your goal in a shoulder to shoulder effort with pulling effort towards your heaven.
Upon contemplating some more, it can be realized that the world that we live in is not a mere “binary” of “Pulls” and “Pushes”. You will realize that there are certain circumstances/things that are pulling you, but you are resisting them; there are certain circumstances/things that are pulling you, are you are willingly accepting them in your life; there are certain circumstances/things that are pushing away from you, trying to go away from your life, but you are not letting them go; there are certain circumstances/things that are pushing away from you, trying to go away from your life, and you are gladly letting them go; there are certain circumstances/things that are you want to push away from your life, but they just won’t go away; there are certain circumstances/things that you want to pull towards you, but they just won’t come.
And you’ll realize that this is happening with everyone around you. Everyone is sort of dancing in this frenzied dance of their self-created pulls and pushes; and they don’t even have any where-withdrawals to understand what is happening. Everyone is dancing following their instincts, without giving any thought over anything whatsoever.
Everyone, except The One. The One is dancing perfectly, he is gladly accepting everything that is coming towards him, and is pulling nothing else; he is gladly letting go everything that is going away from him without any resistance, and is pushing away nothing else. We call him Natwar - For He is the master of this dance, for he doesn’t dance for himself alone, he dances to please everyone around him, and in the process, enlighten them - enabling them to metamorphose into a better version of themselves.
