I'm Aware, Now What?
This week I am following up my previous posts on “Feeling the Feels” and “Cultivating Awareness”.
Let’s say you have cultivated an awareness of automatic responses to uncomfortable emotions. You want to change these behaviors but you don’t know where to start.
You may discover your self-soothing behaviors are incredibly powerful. This is because you have been using them automatically for so long.
Cultivating Awareness
Last week I discussed the possibility of liberation from conditioned self-soothing behaviors that occur in response to negatively charged emotions.
In my opinion, the first step in learning this process is awareness.