Do You Enjoy Being Knocked Unconscious?

How was your weekend. Did you get some quality recovery time in? Was your weekend out of control, running here there and everywhere? Or did these questions actually make you stop and think how you felt and what did I actually do on the weekend? What I am trying to do is illustrate if you are living consciously or on auto pilot.

A classic example of being on auto pilot is when you consume food. You, like most people probably eat watching TV, listening to music, drinking wine or reading something. The list could go on but you get the idea. You get to the end of a big meal and then it hits you. You have just filled yourself up to the brim by eating too much. If you were eating consciously you would have eaten slower. Chewed your food completely, swallowed that mouthful before taking another mouthful and repeating the process. If you do this well you find you don't eat nearly as much because you are aware when that fuller feeling starts. Either that or you don't eat as much because your meal has gone cold!!! If this happens you are consciously eating.

Apply this to your life and see if you are living consciously. You may well find your actions aren't matching what is most productive to you in achieving your goals. This can encourage negative emotions because you aren't finding adequate time to do what is most important to you. Initially this will be hard for you because you think you aren't achieving because you aren't doing enough. In actual fact you will have cut out the non important tasks you perform regularly and have more spare time. How foreign, no problems to fix, no rushing from place to place to please someone else.

So by not living consciously you are negatively impacting on your lifestyle. Ultimately that will effect your health and wellbeing because you aren't happy. If you aren't happy you aren’t living in harmony with your surroundings. Happiness should be your natural state of being. Do you feel happy most of the time? If not start living consciously and turn off the auto pilot. You are the only one who can make that choice. Choose to live consciously or keep tuning out. But just remember this. By staying on auto pilot you will miss many of the adventures and opportunities on your journey.You have some choices to make don't you?