By building our skills in awareness, we move from a state of reactiveness to responsiveness. The times we need to draw on our courage are usually preceded by some kind of change, many times abrupt- and we are rarely ready.
Building our awareness skills helps us think more broadly, consider more options, get more perspective.
We start by asking:
- What is happening? Who is involved?
- What am I feeling? Describe the situation to myself – even better on paper.
- What are my assumptions? What are they based on?
- What else might be happening?
- What are my options? What might be possible – best case scenario.
- What values do I want to express as I work my way through this?
- How will they align with my decisions to act?
- If I choose to react, what might the outcome be?
- What are the loudest voices in my mind urging me forward?
- Are they they ones I want to listen to?
Knowing that fear often fills us with false evidence (F.E.A.R. False evidence appearing real) what questions can we ask to determine the criteria to make any decisions going forward.
Fear is a powerful force and can convince us to act rashly – sometimes without a chance to retrieve words, relationships, etc.
Learning to raise your awareness can be like learning to have a new set of tools that make decisions more thoughtful and outcomes more positive.
This is just the first step of awareness to consider. There are a few more.
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