Awareness is required to break free of destructive habits / cycles.
Awareness is the universal key to change.
Awareness is the ability to disengage the auto pilot state we can find ourselves, highlighted when we are reactive in our actions.
We need to deliberately slow down to observe our actions, feelings, emotions and thoughts before we act.
Reflection adds to our awareness. Holding onto the need to be “right” is a major awareness retardant.
It’s a bit of a catch 22 situation, without awareness how do be stop ourselves from being stuck in behaviours that are not making us consistently happy or even profoundly unhappy.
The fact that we are unhappy and or depressed is a clear sign that we need to examine our behaviour and notice any patterns. Blaming others is also just another destructive behavioural pattern. So if we are so use to our current way of feeling how do we get the momentum to even start to change.
Just the act of reading this blog means that there is some awareness present and the opportunity for more momentum. Each enquiry we make adds incrementally to the awareness level in each of us.
For most of us it takes times to accumulate awareness and to notice positive change, appreciate it and want more. For some it happens faster than others. It is not uncommon when the awareness momentum is shifted due to a life changing event, possibly illness, an accident or relationship break up.
From my own experiences Meditation is the best accelerant to awareness and positive change.
The choice is yours alone.
Cheers,
Peter