How Conscious Decision Making Changes Everything
Updated: Jan 6
Jamee Culbertson integrates Taoist practices, the Alexander Technique, and spiritual healing for transformative experiences. She is a Senior Healing Tao Instructor teaching Tai Chi, Qigong, and Taoist meditations at the Universal Tao Boston School of Taoist Practices. Jamee is a teacher trainer certifying teachers in both disciplines.
What if clarity isn’t something you’re missing, but something you’ve been avoiding? This article invites you into an embodied exploration of conscious decision-making, showing how nervous system regulation, energetic anatomy, and inner power can guide choices that feel aligned, confident, and deeply your own.
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Resistance to clarity
Many people don’t bring consciousness to the decisions they make because, oddly enough, they don’t actually want clarity.
"Clarity isn’t something we lack, it’s something we unwittingly avoid.”
Strange to say, but many people do not want to embrace their power, especially if they’re comfortable in their victimhood. That was certainly the case for me for a time. It took the tough love of a Lakota medicine woman, one of my earliest teachers, to help me find my own source of power and learn to trust it. There is something profoundly important about being guided by someone who has done the work and is walking with their power. They don’t tell you what to do, they show you what’s possible.
Learning automatically
Neuroscience offers a powerful insight here. Brain cells called mirror neurons are activated both when we perform an action and when we observe someone else performing that same action. These neurons light up sensory, empathetic, and social connections within the brain. In other words, consciousness is contagious. We learn not only through instruction, but through presence.
Much of today’s holistic messaging tells us we must “raise our vibration” in order to manifest what we want, but rarely does it explain how.
That’s where these teachings come in.
Accessing your energetic blueprint
In this course, we show you how to access your energetic blueprint, your actual energetic architecture. This is not metaphorical, it is experiential. When you learn to make decisions by tapping into your energetic design, those decisions are undeniably on track for you. You cannot be led astray by your own blueprint.
“When decisions come from your energetic design, doubt falls away and direction becomes unmistakable.”
If someone is holding back from engaging with and building their power, it may simply mean they aren’t ready, and there is no judgment in that.
Distinguishing timing from self-limitation
However, there is an important distinction between honoring right timing and telling ourselves a story that we don’t have what it takes to move forward. These stories can take many forms—just about any reason that allows us not to act.
This is why money is so often used as the reason not to go for what we truly want. Money becomes the “cause” for not moving forward with something that feels empowering or even life-changing. Yet money is never the cause, not when we understand that the universe has our back.
Reframing money as energy
There is no shortage of energy in the universe. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. This isn’t woo-woo, it’s physics. And money, at its core, is a form of energy.
“This isn’t woo-woo, it’s physics, consciousness, and choice working together.”
So when we say we want something, yet claim we can’t afford it, what limits are we placing on ourselves and on the universe? We are effectively saying yes but no.
Saying, “Yes, I want this, but now is not the right time” is very different from saying, “I don’t have the resources.” Proper action requires proper timing. If something truly lights you up and you say yes to it, resources have a way of becoming available even if you don’t yet know how.
Expanding awareness of our multidimensional nature
As we come to understand our own energetic anatomy, we begin to recognize our inter-dimensional self. This may sound far-reaching, yet multidimensionality exists within the physical body itself. By expanding our awareness, we gain access to more of our design. This process is deeply healing, profoundly transformative, and undeniably empowering.
Reclaiming decision-making power as women
And it is especially empowering for women.
“When women reclaim their power to decide, generational patterns begin to change.”
Why women? Look at our ancestry. My grandmother could not vote, I can. My mother did not have a voice, I do. When women become the decision-makers in their own lives, real change begins. And that is where transformation truly takes root.
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Jamee Culbertson, Senior Instructor, Teacher Trainer
Jamee is a Senior Instructor at the Universal Tao Boston School, teaching Tai Chi, Qigong, and Taoist meditation. With nearly 40 years of experience, she integrates Taoist practices, the Alexander Technique, and spiritual healing. She is an internationally certified Alexander Technique Instructor and teacher-trainer at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jamee has taught at Harvard University, Mass General’s Home Base program for veterans, and community wellness events like Rosie’s Place. Her work blends ancient wisdom and modern techniques to support healing, balance, and self-awareness.
