Awareness seems to be where change begins. It’s all important in breathing and relaxation, it changes our focus, and it lets us experience ‘light-bulb moments’ or moments of revelation and realization. If we want to explore and discover the bricks of our pyramids, awareness is the place to start. Here are some ways to think about it.
Consider……
Do our “always” bricks keep us limited from other wonderful experiences in life?
Do our “never” bricks lead us to create experiences that may have their own inherent difficulties for ourselves and others?
When we find ourselves feeling, thinking, or behaving in ways that seem erratic or different from our “normal” selves, take a breath, and become aware of what is going on around you at the moment. Are there movements, scenarios, sights or sounds that echo the past?
Defensiveness squashes awareness. We don’t usually like to be told what we’re doing wrong. I certainly don’t! Criticism invites us to reject it.
But awareness comes from others, so when our kids, or other people close to us, or even strangers tell us something they notice, just tuck it away to think about later. It may be a clue about one of those sneaky bricks – it may even help us to clearly see the writing that we couldn’t quite decipher before.
