
There is a wealth of literature available about the benefits of living "in the now". But what exactly does it mean to live in the now? How do you know when you're in the now and how do you know when you are not? Living in the now really means that no matter what the circumstance, you are able to respond to it from a place of conscious choice. Now you may be thinking "well, I do that all the time anyway"! But do you really? What happens in those circumstances where someone's voice tone - maybe at work - raises the hackles on the back of your neck and you find yourself storming off in anger and it takes a while to dissipate? What about the piece of music that suddenly plunges you into incredible sadness from which you have difficulty extricating yourself? Sometimes these things happen and you are aware of them happening but seemingly powerless to stop it. This is when you know for sure you are no longer in the now.
When you find yourself reacting to something or someone in a way you would not choose under normal circumstances you are experiencing what is known as a Subconscious Reactive Pattern. Depending on which book you read your Conscious Mind represents from 2 - 5% of your reality and is the only place you can exercise choice. The other 95 - 98% represents your Subconscious Mind which is responsible for operating all of your bodily functions (breathing, heart rate, digestion, etc) as well as being the storehouse for all of your experiences and emotions. Your brain, in the form of your subconscious mind, is amazing at learning patterns of behaviour. Think about climbing stairs for example. You learned a long time ago how to do that and now that capability is entrenched in your subconscious mind as a pattern of behaviour. You no longer need to think HOW to climb stairs, you just do it without even being aware of it. So what has this to do with getting caught in an 'habitual' response?
In the same way that you learned how to climb stairs, you learned emotional responses to certain events and stimuli. When something comes along which your subconscious mind perceives as similar to the original stimulus, it orchestrates an elaborate response, which often includes physical as well as emotional aspects, based on what you learned from your earliest experiences. And it does this outside of your conscious awareness! This is the essence of a Subconscious Reactive Pattern and it is triggered even before you have a chance to choose a different response. And the challenging part is that this pattern gets triggered by the same stimuli over and over again.
Now there is a tool that you can learn with which to help yourself. It is called the "1-2-3 PLAN".
The 1-2-3 PLAN program is derived from the first 3 steps of the 16-step process known as the LifeLine Technique
tm created and developed by Dr. Darren R. Weissman of Chicago.
Here's what we will teach you:
