Consequence of Actions

All actions have consequences, this is the Law of Cause and Effect or simply known as karma. Everything we think and say and do has consequences for ourselves and for others. Like ripples on a pond, our actions spread out and affect others because everything is interconnected.

We can’t always foresee all the consequences of our actions and trying to be 100% sure we are doing the right thing 100% of the time leads to Mental Anxiety and indecisiveness. However, we can resolve to try to choose those actions that lead to true alignment with our our inner core, to avoid Service to Self actions and to choose Service to Others actions that have more beneficial consequences for all. These are actions set upon that are intended to promote greater connection, unity and harmony for all involved.

Our intent, consent and authority is the key to align to our highest expression in the moment, and to act from the intention of Harmlessness.

Action

When we decide, we can choose to act, and to accept the recommendations of others or otherwise to carry out some action. Whether or not to act is central to many decisions we make. We have to consider how positive taking action really is. Non-action is a decision that we sometimes do not realize we are making, for example, this happens when we avoid making decisions or addressing a problem. When people ask us to do something, we may feel that we have to say yes from obligation, but in fact we can always create an appropriate boundary for ourselves and say no. Then we can consider the consequence of the agreement to carry out an action versus the consequence of the refusal.

Consequences

When we take action, there are consequences. Things happen and ripple out to impact many seen and unseen events. These may be positive or negative results for us, and positive or neagtive results for other people. While we often focus on how things are impacting ourselves, the effects upon others can also be significant. Other people we usually consider in our decisions may include our family and closer friends. We may also consider consequences for other people, even those we do not know.

Consequences of actions can have deliberate effects and they may be accidental, with short term or effects that happen later on. We often pay closer attention to consequences that happen in the shorter term, where there is clear cause and effect between the actions we make and what happens as a result of those actions. Consequences may also happen further out into the future, and perhaps it may be harder to track the causal relationship to the original action that set the consequence into motion. When consequences are less clear and more distant then we may ignore or downplay them, which is not always a good idea.

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