The Limits of Our Freedom to Choose

Personal development brings choice to theunderstanding.
individual. And I believe in choice, but, can ourI believe that until we can inform people through
choices be limited by our maps of the territory?the process of doing and being in a manner that
Unless our maps are updated or at least revealedthey learn to fish, instead of giving them a fish,
to us (usually by a personal developmentwe will not leave the world in a much better place
professional) our choice of change is limited.then we found it. It is when we can teach people
This article is not about free will, per se, but it ishow to fish (to teach them that choice of life is
about freedom to choose. Do we really have theconstrained by ones view of life) - therefore,
freedom to choose between all options? Doeschoice is limited by virtue of the limits of their
everyone have the same options before them topersonal and social communication (VAK, internal
choose? Choose happiness or sadness? Choose todialogue, meta-states, meta-programs, the
listen to the boss or not listen? Choose to followmovies that play in the mind) patterns. This new
the judge's orders or not?psychology, which is at the heart of
I have a belief that we do have the ability toself-actualization psychology, is an important
choose, but the question I pose before us isaspect of a cultural revolution that I think is
choosing between which options? Do we assumenecessary for the next step in the development
that all people have the same options of choice?of the human species.
The freedom to choose something is limited toSo the next big question is, does your world
the options of choice that are before us. Where(your map) allow you to make this CHOICE of
do these options of choice come from? Why usthis new psychology? And do you agree with my
of course, and when and where did they come topremise of the limits of choice being constrained
us? They came all throughout our lives, throughby the limits of one's maps, change the map,
our experiences which created our ways ofchange the options of choice?
thinking, our unique language and categories' of