Stop Making Assumptions
By Michele Laub
- Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The Key to Mastering Awareness
Mastering Awareness with consistency is the key to making changes in our lives. The first step to mastering awareness is self-observation—noticing where we focus our attention, and how this focus makes us feel. There are two basic feelings—feel good and getting better, paddling down stream; or feeling bad and getting worse, paddling up-stream. If we are not feeling good, we have the opportunity to focus our attention from another point of view, take another route. Many will say that is easier said then done. With persistence and desire, however, shifting how we feel is simpler when we detach from the stories and assumptions in our heads.
For example, inconsistent, even chaotic and intense weather patterns have recently inundated our lives, effecting appointments, travel plans, and the comfort and safety of our homes from power outages and weather related erosion, and global catastrophes. Instead of assuming the worst-case scenario into the future, the doomsday, fear producing warnings of 2012, we can look instead to the abiding power of the Earth, our responsibility to live in synchronicity with Mother Nature and discover new and better ways to make this happen
We can put our faith into ingenuity and wisdom instead of putting faith into fear, diminishing and constricting our lives. We can experience global climate change as an opportunity to grow in Oneness with all of humanity, while deepening our respect for the events in the natural world.
Mastering Awareness is learning to focus our attention on what is propelling us to think and act and feel the way we do. We have the option to stop making choices from conditioned responses, addictive behaviors, and the distortions in our programmed minds.
The key to living in Awareness is to stop making assumptions, repeating stories in our heads and sharing them with others, assuming the future will be a continuation of the past, and presuming that we will always experience life in the way we have. Defending our point of view, justifying our behavior, and rationalizing our perception of the world, expecting others to be and do exactly what they have done in the past is out-dated. Our obligation as a humanity to create in the present, relinquish assumptions based in the past projected into the future has never been clearer. This shift, like any other begins with each of us.
Make a commitment to watch your mind and be your observer. Notice the myriad of assumptions you make every day. Focus light on your assumptions. Cast doubt on what you believe, ask questions and even more important ask follow-up questions, gather information, be quiet and notice your feelings, and make space for options and innovative approaches. Free yourself from making assumptions and enjoy the result of living feely in the present moment.
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