At night, when you are asleep, how do you know you are dreaming?
Unless, you have learned to dream lucidly, you don’t know you are dreaming, until you wake up!
Why am I asking this question?
Most of the thought patterns you follow during each day are automatic, they play out just like a dream, you are in them, following them, but not aware of what they are (that’s how the brain works, it stores patterns to ‘help’ you, by not having to pay conscious attention to every single little thing, that it is faced with, moment to moment). Trouble is, some of the patterns you learned earlier in your journey are not always helpful, in this situation right here, right now, (some are of course) and that’s why you need to wake up sometimes, to what your thought patterns are and where they are ‘taking you’.
Ask what are my thoughts about this?
What is my thinking here?
You may think you are fully awake, you’re not, you’re following thought patterns.
You need to observe those thoughts, be aware of them
You need to really wake up, so that, as you become more aware of your thinking in any given context, you choose to change that thinking to something that is more resourceful, something more helpful. You respond to the situation, see The Journey.
How many times today did you react to something happening, to someone saying something?
How many times today did you respond to something happening, to someone saying something?
I will discuss Responding vs Reacting in a future Post in the BLOG