When we deal with a struggle with external focus, we think it is the world around us that has to change. Too often even if that is true, that is not in your control.
The first thing you are responsible for is how you are going to deal with that struggle. That is what you always have control over.
Changing the external world may be needed, but how you respond to it is something you need to control. Consciously dealing with a struggle demands inner wisdom instead of a reactionary ego.
The Life Skills Approach focuses on what part of you deals with your struggle first. If our focus is on our thoughts and past conditioning, we automatically react to the struggle from the perspective of our past conditioning.
That conditioning may be good or poor, but to be creative in dealing with struggles, your inner focus has to go deeper than the conditioned mind; you need to connect to your inner wisdom. That may seem difficult to do because it is beyond thinking, but it is possible.
You can develop habits that take your awareness beyond conditioning with simply breathing. To do that you need to develop life skills like;
- The first thing is a positive self image, for exploring your inner depth requires a quality vehicle that doesn’t carry a lot of unfinished business.
- You need to trust yourself because you are leaving the security of the known.
- You can not be limited by your own mind.
- All of the above points have to work together without having to think about them.
Before you start an inner journey like that, you have to ask this simple question. Do you want to consciously condition your mind?
If you are more committed to your past programming, you will never leave the conditioned mind level. Real creativity begins beyond past conditioning and to enter a creative state of mind you have to let go of past conditioning and develop the life skills that empower you to venture into the unknown.
Marc Lerner teaches those in a struggle how to develop life skills through experiential exercises that turn into helpful habits. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com for a free e-book on this or to my Blog at http:lifeskillsapproach.com for essay on dealing with a health crisis.
© Marc Lerner 2007
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