This is Day Twenty Eight in the 30 Days of Reinvention Video Series [#30DaysReinvention].
Empower yourself by creating a space between action and emotion.
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Meditation is a powerful way of forming a different relationship to things you are feeling or experiencing.
At first this changed relationship will be true only during meditation, but over time you can extend and expand this relationship into your everyday life.
think of a recent feeling of irritation you had for somebody or something.
What is your relationship to that feeling?
Are you stuck with that feeling?
Is it replaying over and over in your mind?
This constant replay is a form of reinforcement. Neuroplasticity works both ways: delivering either positive or negative change to your brain’s neural structure and function.
Can you step back from that feeling?
Start by recognising it, and then deconstruct it into its various elements.
Can you now start to change your thinking about that feeling?
Hold back your initial troubled reaction to it and replace it with a sense of calm, replace it with a sense of spaciousness.
Does this create a space between the act of doing or not doing and your feeling toward it?
Does it help you separate out the action and the emotion it initially gave rise to?
Your aim is to reach a point where you no longer reinforce the negative and instead you link that difficult feeling with the deep well of open, untroubled awareness that exists within yourself,
This leads to a relaxation of the need to react to that negative feeling and immediately disempowers that feeling.
You will find yourself less controlled by such feelings. You’ll find yourself less in fear of being in situations that may give rise to them and therefore less likely to avoid such circumstances.
This is at the heart of being fierce.
When you are more relaxed overall you find yourself being less fatigued, you find yourself being more productive, you find yourself being more emotionally intelligent and you find yourself making more strategic decisions.
This is at the heart of being a better leader.
Understanding that you can change your brain through your mind you are empowered to transform your life.
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