Conscious living Practice 11 - Respond with love

We need to train ourselves to 'respond with love' because in general we are habituated to snap/ get irritated easily. This happens, because of the activation of our "survival brain", that starts feeling threatened at any sort of opposition from the environment.

Unless we train ourselves to respond with love, our snapping response will become habitual and we lose the opportunity to train our conscious mind to be loving and peaceful. Which will then over time become a subconscious response. And that's when a real change would have occurred at the deepest level. 

To become more conscious of how you are responding to people in your life, ask yourself if your response to others is coming from a place of 'offering love and encouragement' or from a place of 'fear/ insecurity'?

When we find ourselves being reactive, we can pause and remind ourselves that our life as well as our relationships are temporary, and from that place of knowledge, respond. 

We can look at unpleasant situations in relationships as opportunities for us to practice, 'responding with love'. Also 'responding with love', doesn't mean that we tolerate unhealthy behavior towards our-self. If someone is purposefully mean to us, we can and should put our foot down and speak our mind in a firm way, but there is no need to 'hate the person'. We definitely need to stand up for ourselves. Even remove ourselves from a situation that is harmful for our well being. But when it comes to less harmful situations such as a petty argument with a spouse or situations where say our children are irritating us, we can pause and choose a loving response. 

Let's begin to notice how 'responding with love' alters our experience 🙂

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