This Topic of Choosing How to React Keeps Coming Up

Reactions are funny things. They tell you a lot about you: what you really feel, what you really want, and how much you value or care for a specific thing. It is easy to experience a reaction and allow learned pathways to take over. These work both ways. You can let positive pathways take over, or you can let negative pathways take over. Either way, changes are that the facts of the situation are overlooked. Chances are attribution, wishful thinking, and pain bodies are at work. Instead of flowing with emotional reactions, it is probably a wiser decision to allow the emotion to run its course, uncover the truth about you, then leave you armed with information, calmed, and ready to respond consciously. Conscious, in-the-moment action is the kind of action which probably should always aspire to take. I believe it opens up many more positive potential outcomes. And it helps guard against bad decisions…or, shall we say, decisions with many more negative potential outcomes.

This topic of choosing how to react keeps coming up.