That sense of peace you feel now reflects the fact that you made the right decision, this may not be the right one for some, nor the most logical for others, in fact, it may not even be the best. obvious is that it is the choice that makes you happy, that corresponds to your values, your essences and your feelings?
Sigmund Freud said that making a decision is like riding a racehorse, the animal represents our emotional, instinctive, almost wild side, in turn, the rider is the one who takes the reins of reason, guide, brake and guide. gain most of the time when decision-making is our fascinating emotional architecture, where hundreds of races are held every day?
- You’re nobody’s choice.
- It’s your own priority.
- So when you make your decisions.
- Listen to your heart.
- Because there’s no right path.
- There’s a path that makes you happy.
Life is a matter of choice, and we spend much of our time practicing the art of decision: coffee or tea, elevator or ladder, call or not call, take this train or let it go?Deciding can convey the same sensations that accompany a jump in the air There, where great doses of courage and responsibility are needed.
Henry James has written an exceptional story titled “The Happy Corner. “The story introduces us to Spencer Brydon, a young man who, having enjoyed success and fortune in the United States, returns to England.
In the solitude of his now empty home, he wonders if he made the right decision, whether the option to leave his roots and his was the right decision. In the midst of this existential doubt, his alter ego, the other self, suddenly appears. who gradually reveals to him what would have been his if he hadn’t left.
Wither or not taking the right choice is something that will always accompany us, now, as Henry James shows us in this story, making a decision comes first from the heart, but then comes responsibility, from emotion to reason, above all, the obligation to be the architects of our own ways.
There are not always right choices, nor paths with neon seeing where happiness is born every day, the wisest decision is the one that brings us peace, the one that goes hand in hand with conscience and which, in turn, invites us to continue making coherent decisions based on those essences.
We already know that when deciding one option or another, emotions are like our light in the oceans of doubt, now you will also like to know that the brain structure that radiates the most light in this process is the amygdala.
A desire doesn’t change anything, but a decision starts all over
The body of the tonsils has hundreds of connections throughout the brain, it is a listening and fascinating structure that acts as a small sentinel capable of evaluating any stimulus, thought, experience or conscious or unconscious event, after this analysis, the amygdala emits a judgment, which will then be analyzed calmly by the frontal cortex.
Since we are clear that many of our decisions are made on the “emotional path,” let’s now see how we can make these decisions a little wiser, more correct, and more accountable.
To be happy you have to make decisions and be able to cross the line of fear, it is something that sometimes becomes very complicated, we know, because deciding is also leaving many things behind.
The art of being happy is to know how to decide every day being whole with the voice of the heart, accepting the mistakes to gradually find one’s own vital paths, the inner peace of having made the right decision.