When we live life in autopilot, we forget that we have choice in how we respond to life around us. We can be highly reactive, shut down, or simply dissociated from life.
HERE’S HOW TO WAKE UP (🧵):
HERE’S HOW TO WAKE UP (🧵):
The brain and body prefer to run on autopilot. It takes less energy.
Think about how you wake up, brush your teeth, make coffee automatically. Or, how you drive somewhere and are completely lost in thought but end up exactly where you need to be.
Think about how you wake up, brush your teeth, make coffee automatically. Or, how you drive somewhere and are completely lost in thought but end up exactly where you need to be.
This is the subconscious autopilot doing what it does: living in its habit trance.
In autopilot we conserve energy, but we often aren’t aware of the role we play in each situation and we tend to react rather than respond.
In autopilot we conserve energy, but we often aren’t aware of the role we play in each situation and we tend to react rather than respond.
Think about it: you know how the people in your family or close circle will react to things. It’s habit.
Our habits (including our habit emotions) create our life experiences.
Our habits (including our habit emotions) create our life experiences.
When we want to make changes in our lives, we need to awaken from autopilot and begin making choices that serve who we truly want to be.
This is creating the future self.
This is creating the future self.
How do we start? Moments of consciousness each day. Moments where we feel the soap on our skin while doing the dishes. Moments where we pause before rattling off that text message (we later regret.) Moments where we feel ourselves in our body.
Slowly, we leave that autopilot trance by making different choices.
Ex: mom makes a comment that’s triggering and instead of reacting to her we breathe and recognize this is her way of relating.
Ex: mom makes a comment that’s triggering and instead of reacting to her we breathe and recognize this is her way of relating.
Or, a stranger bumps into us and instead of saying “watch it” we notice they look frazzled and distracted and breathe deep into the belly.
With practice, the world responds differently— because we are different.
People close to us might notice too. Consciousness is the path to change. If we aren’t conscious, we’re simply re-enacting our past in the present.
People close to us might notice too. Consciousness is the path to change. If we aren’t conscious, we’re simply re-enacting our past in the present.
Feeling stuck.
Wondering why we keep doing the same things and getting the same results.
By becoming conscious we have an opportunity to do differently. To become responsible for our energy, our emotions, and our interactions.
Wondering why we keep doing the same things and getting the same results.
By becoming conscious we have an opportunity to do differently. To become responsible for our energy, our emotions, and our interactions.
When we’re in autopilot, we are victims of circumstance.
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