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Awareness is an Inside Job
Mindfulness of your own headspace will help you be better aware of the outside world and how it impacts you.
Mindfulness is a matter of being aware of yourself. To put it simply, mindfulness is recognizing, acknowledging, and knowing what is inside your own head.
For many reasons that terrifies a lot of people. Scared the shit out of me for a lot of years. Why? Because outside influences can make you fearful of what you will find inside your own head.
I know a lot of people who have told me the reason they won’t meditate or spend too much time getting into their own head is that either
(a. they cannot quiet their mind
(b. they are afraid of what they will encounter if they go into their own mind
(c. they haven’t the time to be still, meditate, otherwise reflect inwards
(d. all of the above
The trouble is, at least in my experience, when you don’t work on the awareness of your own mindset it is really easy to get blown off course. When you have a lot going on and don’t give it attention, plus a wide assortment of outside influences, if you don’t actively work on being aware your subconscious takes control.
What happens when your subconscious does the driving? You wind up planting seeds that, if…
