Before commitment and action, hold each of the decision’s options in your mind prior to judgement. How do you feel in thought and feeling for yourself alone?  Set the world aside for just this moment.

This is your private self: Stop, pause, and wait with the option in your mind. No judgement zone.

DISCERNMENT I: Your Sense of Good: overview, instructions, and worksheet

Finding your first Sense of Good takes on the nature of ‘grounding’. This grounding exercise rests on the principle that feelings inspire words and words orient action. The first words, once associated with feelings, can help recall and re-inspire the original good feelings.  This Pause works to enable you to discern, feel, describe and evolve what ‘good’ means in your life and for this decision.  Each of the four discernments prepares you to access your  ‘Sense of Good’ as you consider the consequences presented by the impending decision. The worksheet for this discernment will return you to the feeling of people, places, and things you discern to be ‘good’; the foundational feeling for this entire process.

Worksheet for Discernment I

If you are ready to move on, click below on Your Sense of Community. For more nuanced treatment of ‘good’ click on The Conversation.