Sir Anthony explains that it’s hard to make considered choices without being Mindful. He using the example of making decision from a calm state and likens it to be a calm surface of a body of water rather than a surface splashing around.
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To make healthy choices unless one is mindful, or to put it another way, it's hard to make considered choices. I mean, somebody who is drunk can decide not to have another glass of wine. You don't need to be mindful to make a healthy choice, but I think it helps to be mindful to make a considered choice that is coming out of a deeper part of one. I mean, we are, if we are a refracted kaleidoscope with many lights, we can be acting often from any one of those different mirrors or lenses, as if it is our deepest self, what mindfulness clearly allows us to do is to calm down. So that's why the analogy of a glass of water is helpful. If it's splashing around and you're trying to make a decision while you're on that surface, you might not make such a considered decision. I mean, it might be a very good decision, but it would be a better decision if one let oneself calm down, or if one was capable of acting from a deeper part of oneself, that mindfulness is the gateway to. you
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