Reactor or Responder

When “I” is in control you react to life with the protective tools that have been developed so you don’t get hurt. But know this, the tools developed for protection are the same ones that cause you harm…

To live life by principles based in spirituality doesn’t mean you just let things happen. It’s really the opposite, you become more aware of what’s going on in life so you have more control of it and responds to it from a place of love instead of reacting to it from who knows where. Without awareness, life controls how things affect you and the more you want things different, the more you’ll react to life instead of responding to it.

When these reactions occur it’s because you’re not present enough to be with what’s happening in this exact moment. Normally you’re carrying some past event into the present moment and this is what makes you a reactor instead of a responder. It’s very difficult to remain in a state of presence on a continuous bases, but this is where the necessity for discipline comes in. Without it you’ll remain as a reactor because there won’t be the development of the necessary tools to change and become a responder.

Life is always what it is, what makes it different for everyone is the developed tools to cope with what happens in the present moment. Life can be lived through the noise in the head or it can be lived in the quietness of what is occurring right now. There’s only quietness when you’re without an attached story. It’s up to each individual where life is spent, the level of quietness there is and if your life is based in a story or if it’s based in the quietness of the moment. When it’s based in quietness you respond to life instead of a reacting to it because of the need to create a story…