Gain Awareness of Your Motivations: 3. Do your actions serve you?

Learn to be aware of the effects of your actions: do they serve you?

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Operating under our auto-pilot can often be easy or comforting, helping us act efficiently without needing to think too much about it. Our auto-pilot mode is a program of habitual #behavior that allows us to act, respond and react without much thinking.

A shortcoming though is that if our auto-pilot doesn’t necessarily serve us well, we will simply keep doing the same non-beneficial actions over and over again. Think of yo-yo dieting. Comfort eating is a common habit. Some people seek out treats or food when they are stressed. Over time, this becomes ingrained as part of default auto-pilot behavior.

Now when those same people try to lose weight or live more healthily, the stress and challenges of changing their lifestyles leads them back into comfort eating, sabotaging their goals.

Cultivating mindfulness helps us learn to gain greater awareness of our thinking and behavior. With that, we can reflect, evaluate, and choose more empowering behavior. Being mindful helps us to be more clear minded, allowing us to respond more purposefully.

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