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Do I have free will?

By July 6, 2017April 24th, 202014 Comments

When discussing flow, your true life’s purpose, an inevitable question is whether you have free will. After all, if you are “forced” into following a certain way of life (flow) doesn’t it mean you have no free will of your own?

The answer is not what you’d expect. Let me explain. What is the purpose of free will? You hear that all the time in movies, television, politics, and religion. And the answers are conflicting. When it comes to politics and patriotism, Americans have the freedom of free will, not to be suppressed by a communist regime or evil dictator. Yet when it comes to religion it is always you have the “free will” to follow the devil, but to be happy you must suppress your free will and “find God”. Mixed messages to say the least.

The reality is you always have free will, and it is not the free will described by others. Free will in flow means you have the free will to either be successful or not be successful. You have the free will to do drugs, get drunk, have unprotected sex, and any number of detrimental acts. But do those gain you anything? You also have the free will to listen to others tell you how to live your life and to blindly follow them. That also gets you nothing.

Free will in flow is about you being able to discriminate between what adds to your success and what is impeding it. You can choose to go down the wrong path, but why? Just like you can choose to smash your hand with a hammer or stick a needle in your eye. But why?

If, in “free will”, you choose a path that impedes your success (like marrying someone you don’t love or doing cocaine to forget your problems) it means there are blockages somewhere — something or a series of things is standing in your way of success. In flow free will is 100% natural. In fact, the question of free will is really irrelevant. If you are doing what makes you your most successful why would you do anything else?

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