Personal Meditation No. 100

“Your beliefs are your actions. What you say is just what you think.”

Embrace the Within.

Into every life a little rain must fall. My response to the rain is a lot more important than the rain itself. I get to choose whether that rain is going to positively impact my day, negatively impact my day, or have no meaningful impact on my day. Every experience we have the pleasure of encountering each day can get a reaction or a response.

Reactions are trained and involuntary. We’ve built up our reactions over time by embracing ways at interacting with our life. Our reactions do not require any conscious thought. It’s our brain on autopilot doing what it’s always done.

Responses take thought. Responses require a pause. And the great things about responses is that they can retrain reactions. I get to change my brain’s autopilot by conditioning it to respond and react differently. That’s the great thing about the brain. The brain can always change.

I just have to decide that I want my brain to change. I have to decide to make that change from reacting and move into responding. My reactions, my responses, my actions are my beliefs. So, I have the control of choosing how I react, how I respond, how I act among all the challenges in the journey of life.

Do I always make the best choices? Of course not. I’m human like everyone else. But I don’t need to dwell on the bad choices. I can just look at them as growth and aspire to do better the next time. We all get to choose how we interact with life. And none of us are experts. Some of us are just trying.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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