Reactions make up the ‘auto-pilot’ of the body-brain mechanism. The brain loves to solve something once, and then stick to that solution. Taking an enormous amount of energy from the food we eat, the more energy efficient the brain can be, the better. This can lead to existing in unintended space, in an unintentional way. Running on autopilot leaves one only reacting to stimuli, and as such they would not know for why they are triggered like so. The strength of a man is measured in his temper and patience, he who is easily angered, is easily controlled.
Deep bouts of suppression come in the form of unintentional living, from which your ‘old habits die hard’, and life just seems to ‘happen to you’. The move from unintentional to intentional living starts with 3 things:
1. Decide what is most ideal for the next moment
2. Change your beliefs to match the key belief
3. Act, over re-act.
Deciding what is most ideal in the next moment can cause mid-life crises, there is an extreme level of anxiety that one can allow themselves to feel when faced with the simple question of:
“What do I want from life?”
Life, being characterized by the next present moment, as that is all of life that we get.
The second, is to adjust one’s focus to the answer of the first, in that the Universe works FOR you. Always.
Once more:
Thus, whatever you have decided for the next present moment, is your intention, see where we are going?
Third, act. Instead of re-act. Pay close attention to the structure and components of words that are so often spoken without knowledge for their true meaning. Reaction, or to react, is to re-, or do again, repeat, -act. The very basis of the word is to revisit and act upon identically to prior, living once and sticking to it for the rest of the moments you have. Action, requires the intention, space, and contemplation (thought) to determine what is to be done (or not done) in the face of stimuli, whether or not that has been experienced prior. There are only a few situations were reactions are useful, within fight-or-flight. Where there isn’t the time to contemplate a new action to the same stimuli. Remove the lion, create the space, and diffuse the fight-or-flight. Your tools are as follows:
1. Extreme Responsibility
2. Radical Change
3. Consistent Effort of Changes
4. Proper Judgement of your perceptions
5. Healthy Expression
And finally, intentional living.
