Day 9 – Behavioral Awareness

There are many things we do or say that we are not aware of. Self-sabotage runs high these days and it can be hard to become aware when many of the words/actions pass by us and we forget and keep repeating them the next time.

You might ask yourself how this relates to your health and immune system. Well, it can help in bringing to surface some thought patterns and emotions that are much more hidden so we can’t see them right away. Recognizing such thought patterns and emotions will then help in understanding what needs to be changed/improved/transformed in our mindset in order to emanate health in our gestures and attract health further.

How to become more aware of our self-sabotage programs?

Meditation is always helpful (see Day 1 for the meditation practice), contemplation (presented in Day 6) also helps awareness.

Another way to bring to surface these hidden parts that need transformations is to analyze their external manifestation, objectively analyzing your reactions, your gestures, your speaking patterns.

Practice 1: Start a journal

Write down your experience/reactions/emotions/feelings.

Do not start analyzing them right away. Let them sit.

Then, when enough time has passed, once you can be objective start reviewing them. Objectively look for patterns, look for negative, self-sabotaging programs/reactions.

Then begin a meditation and start thinking about what positive programs you could implement instead.

Practice 2: Record yourself speaking

Writing in a journal helps, but even that will leave some things out. Recording yourself will give you a front-line seat to the live you.

Pay attention to what words you are using or repeating. Are they positive? Is the message conveyed clearly? Are you repeating yourself? What words are you repeating the most?

How often do you say “I am tired”, “I am stressed”, “I feel dead inside”, “I am sick of”, “I don’t have time”? They might seem harmless descriptions of how you are feeling in the moment, but keep repeating them often and you will make your body get into an alert state and if there is no disease, it will create one.

Write it down, meditate and start adding positive, new programs.

Make sure to always use positive/constructive words and phrases like:

“I am in a very productive period at work”

“I have achieved a lot” or “I have a lot to achieve, I need to energize and rest”

“It takes some time to find the solution, but it will come”

“I am silently, subconsciously working on it ”

Practice 3: Film yourself

What are the gestures you do most often? What is your posture? Do they really help convey the message clearly? Are you having some misleading gestures? Should you be more expressive in your gestures?

Contemplate and meditate.

Make an effort to transform and move from negative to positive. Outside changes come from within.