Reactions are choice, not fact. Reactions call out your past, seem like instincts, and feel almost involuntary. Reactions also perpetuate the past. So, if you are in love with your past, stick with your reactions. The presence of ‘reactions’ is an indication (a hint) of how much you depend on your need for control to interact with your life. It is also an indication of how little you are truly able to experience “now” and how convinced you are that the past is quite real so much so that, without it, your identity would be lost to you. Again, test the efficacy of any idea by the feelings you experience in accompaniment.
When considering your reactions, do you feel total joy? Reactions are also called behaviors. And many concerned with changing themselves or others attempt to alter or discipline behavior. Because behaviors are synonymous with reactions, both are choices, changing behaviors then changes nothing. If you wish to address the seeming issue of your reactions, then simply ask yourself why per reaction of which you are aware. Simply pay attention to your first seeming instinct in any situation without judging it right, wrong, good, or bad, and rather, ask yourself, “What is the purpose of this behavior/reaction?”
Reactions are usually a defense or some form of protectionism – because the ego begins with the assumption that you are vulnerable. Understanding this may help you detect the fear beneath the reaction. As you uncover the purpose, you step into where change is possible – at the thought level. At this location of your awareness, simply ask yourself if the driving fear is something you still want to be part of your reality. If your answer is no, let it go.
Nash Mourad and his partner Kay-Marie Adkins run the consulting firm Emergent Awareness. They help top companies and government agencies develop vision, build diverse and international teams, solve previously unsolved problems and manage multiple business transformations. To learn more about facts, choices, and the right-minded perception that fosters personal peace and empowerment, read Nash’s new book, How To Be Right About Everything – Volume 1.
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