Coaching: Living Consciously Vs. Living Habitually

How many times do you find yourself making decisions that are not in your best interests?

Well to make it more clear reflect on all of those behavior patterns that you have been trying to break. As you do you will recognize the extent to which you feel control over your mind, your body and your life have been usurped by some invisible force that takes you to places that are highly undesirable to you.

How is this possible? After all aren't your mind, your body and your life supposed to be yours? Well of course! So how can you explain the fact that you seem to have so little control over them throughout most of your life?

Well it's as simple as saying that you are making choices to become unconscious during these times. Let me explain what I mean by this.

You probably remember if you are old enough, the time in your life when you learned to drive. During that time you found yourself having to pay attention to all of those things you had to do in order to avoid having an accident. At the time it likely felt overwhelming if not a bit taxing.

Today however you probably drive hundreds of miles a week without even thinking about the hundreds of decisions you make to avoid having an accident.

That is because all that "learning" caused your nervous system to become imprinted with a complex program that one might call the "this is how I drive safely program