Most of your responses to the things that happen in your life are preprogrammed in your mind.
You react based on old pain or triggers, habit, and what you were taught to feel by others.
When you have an experience in your current reality and your brain can match it up in some way to something that's happened before, it pulls out that automated response. You react the way you always do to that type of scenario.
When you have an experience that is completely new and unrelated to anything that has happened in the past good or bad, it creates confusion. This is the feeling of being dumbfounded. You don't know how to respond because you don't have a preprogrammed response built in yet.
Essentially you've taught yourself to run on autopilot and it's hidden your ability to decide how to react every single time something happens.
Awareness is what gives you control over these automated responses. When you're aware of your old pain or triggers, the habits or cycles you experience in your life, and how you were taught to feel by others - then you can recognize the behaviors that go with those things and change them.
You don't have to respond the way you always do. It just requires awareness to change it. You have to decide that you want to be aware of yourself within your own experience and then do something about it.
Can you recognize your own automated responses? Are you able to change them?
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Love to all.
Della
