Reaction or Response?

When events happen in your life are your reacting or are you responding?

The work of changing our lives requires that we move from simply reacting to events to responding to them.

What is the difference between Reacting and Responding?

Reaction is based on our subconscious patterns and beliefs.
Response looks within and questions motivations.

Reaction is habitual and automatic.

Response takes a pause and creates space.

Reaction keeps us stuck in our old ways.

Response initiates change and moves us forward.

Think about the word react. It literally means to act again. Something happens and you act again. And again and again and those reactions create habitual ways of responding. Those reactions create your life.

Most of the time we go about our days unaware that we are reacting the events our lives based on subconscious patterns.

For example, you are late for an appointment and you run into a traffic jam. Do you always react with anger and frustration?

When your coworkers start to gossip, do you just automatically join in on the negative talk?

When you don’t get invited to the party, do you always feel rejected and left out?

Or do you stop and question if your habitual reactions are helping you to live the best, highest version of yourself? Could you take a moment and choose to respond differently?

Quiet your mind. Question reactions. Be kind to yourself if you fall into habitual patterns.

This is Big Work.

We need to Witness Our Reactions Kindly.

Decide who you want to be and decide how that person would respond.

You life if your laboratory and you get to do your own experiments.

Will you React or will you Respond?