To stop reacting to life automatically, first decide what you want out of life. You need to define what success and happiness means for you. What it would look like, feels like, sound like, smell like, and taste like? Use the five senses that your subconscious mind uses to create your normal life at present.
Secondly, start acting rather than reacting. Our normal behavior is reactionary. We are, in effect, creatures of habit, performing all our routine tasks using that backward-looking autopilot. If you reflect on it for a moment, pretty much everything we do in life becomes routine, eventually. You have to switch the autopilot off.
This is done very simply! Do some of your routine tasks in a non-routine way. Start with something simple like brushing your teeth with the hand with which you normally do not brush your teeth. Something as simple as this breaks the chain of chain reactions. If you stick with doing little things differently, soon you will get into a new "habit" of actually doing what you are doing mindfully, rather than mindlessly as one normally does.
What is the one think you will stop and do differently today?
This reminds me of Stephen Covey's book, the Seven Habits of Highly People. The first habit is to be proactive. That means that you stop and think before you react. To have the power to choose, is to have the freedom of not being the victim of life, but rather, the creator of it.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very sound advice on breaking habits. I ought to try it out. Thank you so much.
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