Action or Inaction?

[Doreen Peri]

What do you do when you know you need to do something to effect change but you don't know what it is?

Make a decision and do it?

Or do nothing and wait for the cosmos to magically illuminate an answer for you?

lol

I'm laughing but it's not funny, really. I'm absolutely serious.

What do YOU do in such a situation?

Something?

or Nothing?

[judih]

i laugh
or take a walk
or do something with my kids

(in such a case, the worst thing is to sit and do nothing.)

i meditate
or put on music and dance
write a letter to someone i love

my answer apparently is 'action'

[Zlatko Waterman]

I write down potential moves ( decisions) and write until I have exhausted all the probabilities I can think of that could lead to things going wrong.

These I call probabilities.

Then I extend possible wrong moves into wild possibilities-- unforseen wreckage that might result from change, or readjustment.

What do I have to lose, and in what ways could I lose it?

( at my age, the unrush of Death ( capital D) must be factored in).
But Death and its inevitability must not be used as a catch-all way to procure license for whatever it is you might already have decided to do.

I must not:

Get Drunk.

Take hallucinogenic drugs.

Begin a love affair.

( This is all similar, you no doubt have noticed, to the famous recipe of prohibitions from Nelson Algren):

Never eat at a place called Mom's

Never play cards with a man called Doc.

Never go to bed with someone who has more problems than you have.

( I never do those things any more. But I add them, just in case. The most radical and vile thing I probably could manage today would be a hot fudge sundae.)

Then I wait a couple of days, drinking orange juice and water, not looking at what I wrote.

When I finally take a peek at what I wrote, both sets of possibilities ( including probabilities) are usually revealing, before I act.

--Z

[Arcadia]

when I feel a moment as crucial something and nothing don´t say much to me. Hiperideation could work for a little time but always left me exausted. Sleep, walk, cook or talk with friends about what I consider trivial things at that moment always helped me to relax, be surprised and then act in a lighter way and best conditions

[hester_prynne]

I feel that way most of the time, especially lately.
Heh.
So I've just been doing what's right in front of me and obvious.
Keeping the doors open.
So far, so good!
Sometimes an answer, a lesson.
Lots of times it's just "keep on keepin on" mode.
I try to remain positive and excited about whatever the change is gonna be, or not be.
Even changes that aren't what I want, can bring on a sense of adventure, or at least for me. Keeps me up to approach things that way. I love adventures! Specially if they teach me something new!
One thing for sure, I'm not half as afraid as I used to be, i know this. I'm holding back less on how I really feel and or see things. Standing pat for what I want/believe in, regardless of consequences threatened, or imagined threatened.
Yeehaww!

Hope you'll keep us posted....I'm curious for you!
H

[Traveller13]

my guess is
don't act

if I needed to change something, but didn't know what it was, I'd probe myself to see what needs changing.

you can also go ahead and make random changes right now, that could work too

but yeah I know
I'm just a random guy on the net

I have the same feeling sometimes
*shrugs*
I'm ssure the problem can be solved, as long as you're the one who solves it

good luck
lol

(edit: maybe it's my imagination but this message seems to have harsh undertones, so just in case, there is no harshness in this message)
(lol)

[panta rhei]

i know this feeling very well.

what helps me most is to change something.... change anything, anything random. a tiny or bigger change to change the pattern and rhythm.

then i listen to how the tune has changed and how it talks to me now.

[Doreen Peri]

I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of your thoughts and personal identifications with such a dllemma... i know what needs to change... i just don't know how to accomplish it

but everything everybody wrote to this thread is exactly the precious insight i needed...

thank you all!

[Marksman45]

act from your inner silence

your bones know more than your brain does