I’m changing my mind. I have always seen control as being an illusion, since there are so many unpredictable things that can happen in life. I cannot even remember what caused this belief within me.

In my quiet time today, I took out again the idea of control. As a fresh monad, I had to consider and challenge my perceptions and conclusions on the topic. I realized how much the technology that surrounds me is dependent on control to ensure a more predictable outcome. I realized that my health is in a similar way dependent on how I control my everyday life: my breathing, my eating, my sleeping.

Control requires a feedback loop, called. cybernetics. I should bring mindfulness into my life as a means of cybernetics. Right now, after every action or thought, I should ask myself, “Was it beneficial or uplifting?” Is healthy for my mind, body, and spirit? Too often, we just do without consciously closing the loop to ask if the action just completed, the word just spoken, or the thought just thought has taken us towards our destiny or what we want to become.

I must not miss the value of applying cybernetics into my live. Sure, things will go wrong and unexpected things will happen, but then it is the conscious awareness of the feedback loop that will assist me to return to my original call or destiny, enabling me to correct my actions and words, and redirect myself into the direction I need to go. The more regular the feedback loop, the more frequent the correction and less traumatic the action.

Today I realized that I can change my mind on the concept of control and it is liberating!

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