The experiment conducted by psychologist Walter Mischel gives a great insight into the power of choice. In this study, a group of children were offered a choice between one marshmallow or two marshmallows, if they waited for a period of time. During this time the professor left the room and returned after fifteen minutes. Some children couldn't resist and ate up the marshmallow whereas some waited to get the bigger reward. This experiment shows the whole pattern of human behaviour.
Later on the researcher found that the children who were able to wait tended to have better life outcomes, better relationships, better health, better learning skills and better emotional intelligence than the children who couldn't wait. They were economically backward and lesser willpower and self control.
We are all gifted with this free will.But it is up to us how we exercise this power. Our choices can make us successful or a failure. We are solely responsible for our lives and with this attitude, we can make our choices. A student can choose to study or social networking and the results will follow accordingly.
There are two possibilities - knowledge and wisdom. One is right, the other is wrong. One is light and the other is darkness. Choice is yours. You are the driver of your life. Circumstances vary, but it is your choice of response. Between stimulus and response is the greatest power - power to choose. A wise man chooses what is good for him in the long run, even if it is painful at the present moment. He knows that his choice will certainly bring sweet fruits in the future.
When we choose a healthy option in our way of thinking, living, eating or learning ,we raise our emotional frequency which raises the frequency of all those around us. When we do any karma which raises the frequency of others, we are serving them. When we choose positive thinking, we are serving the world with our VIBRATIONS.
Life always throws up situations - the results of our past actions, which we refer to as destiny. What you do with it and more importantly, how you face it, is a matter of choice