Develope an Awareness Habit

[Time2Surrender]

Begin to develop the Awareness Habit
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We call the key steps to awareness the 8 A’s of the Awareness Habit.
Today, we’ll look at the first 4 - Attitude, Attention, Altered state,
Allowing.

1. Attitude - How important is it to you to experience more life? To
connect with your passion? To be fulfilled in all that you do? How
MOTIVATED are you to penetrate and dissolve your unconscious blocks so
you can become a more loving and wise person? Are you OPEN to trying new
things, to risk and to see the world differently? Are you ready to put
in the continuous EFFORT to awaken your awareness and push its comfort
zones?

2. Attention - To be aware, we must STOP and PAY ATTENTION. Set up a few
TRIGGERS to alert you to stop and become aware. Common triggers could be
when you get irritated, when emotions rise, last thing at night, when
you meet a specific person. Awareness requires moments of stillness and
silence in your life so you can pick up the most subtle messages of your
intuition. Start ANCHORING YOUR NEW HABIT of being present in the now.

3. Altered state - of consciousness. This is not necessary but it helps
us go into deeper levels of awareness. All you need to do is RELAX. Take
a few deep breaths with the intention of becoming more and more relaxed.
Sense your whole body being relaxed and stress free, then focus your
attention. OR just take one deep breath to create space and to shift
your attention.

4. Allowing - Be conscious and mindful of what’s happening with NO
JUDGMENTS or emotional attachment. Just allow what is to be as it is.
Simply absorb and experience the situation WITHOUT RESISTANCE.



"Relating to the whole of our lives mindfully -- to both our inward and
our outward experiences -- is a profoundly positive and practical
alternative to the driven, automatic pilot mode in which we operate so
much of the time without even knowing it." -- Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn


To be continued............

[lar]

sounds like your having some fun with getting rid of the old and discovering the new.--barb

[Time2Surrender]

"You can't understand the world and how you respond to it until you
first know yourself. You can't change the things you don't like about
yourself until you search out the things that influence you and motivate
you and hurt you." -- Stedman Graham

In our last email, we outlined the first 4 A’s of the 8 step Awareness
Habit - Attitude, Attention, Altering state, and Allowing. Here are the
last 4 steps:

5. Acceptance - When we can allow what’s happening to be, just as it is,
without judgment or resistance, we can find acceptance. Acceptance does
not mean that we necessarily agree or condone what’s happening. It also
does not mean that we don’t feel pain with the experience. But when we
can accept the truth of what is actually happening, that acceptance
brings some measure of peace. And, the paradox is that only with
acceptance is change possible.

6. Awaken to the insights - Awareness brings new insights, answers,
energies, sensations, experiences, potentials and movement. Be open to
going to a new depth of experience or to a new height of altruism.

7. Action - Your experience of being aware will bring you CHOICE. Doing
nothing is a choice. Working more deeply on the process is a choice.
With awareness, you have the freedom to choose something new for
yourself, if you want.

8. Appreciation - Give thanks for your insights and congratulate
yourself for making the time and effort to develop the awareness habit.

"Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives
self-motivation and self-fulfillment." -- Stedman Graham



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[AllThatGlitters]

Originally Posted by Time2Surrender

"Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives
self-motivation and self-fulfillment." -- Stedman Graham

This is really true. Except I think it's kind of backwards. I think you have to be self-accepting before you become self-aware, because otherwise you're going to go into denial about your behaviors.

Thanks for posting this, by the way. Great post.