Are you free?
Do you ever react to something or someone in the moment and later regret what you said or did? Me too!
For those of us who are highly emotional or reactive, it can sometimes seem like reacting in a certain way to circumstances or to people has become automatic, a habit that we are not able to control. It is almost as if we are locked into a pattern, unable to change it.
But conscious living requires us to realize that:
"Between stimulus (what happens to us) and response (what we do in response to what happens to us) there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Victor Frankl
Over the next few days, let us explore this "space" where we can choose our response. Why is this important? Because the ability to choose our response is what makes us human. That's why!
In his book Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl wrote that "everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
How do we know whether we are exercising this human freedom to choose our response to our life circumstances?
Here are some questions to get us started:
- Do I say, "I have no choice? I have to do . . .
- Do I ever think or say "You made me ... (feel bad, angry, sad, scared)?
- Am I tempted to blame others for things that happen in my life?
- Do I feel helpless to take my life/relationships in the direction that I would like?
- Do I regularly lose my temper and lash out at loved ones, only to regret it later?
Wishing you a day full of positivity, purpose and peace!
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