You can learn to direct the course of your own life, heal long-standing inner wounds, and awaken to your true nature.

<ul><li>Cultivate greater present-moment awareness in order to respond consciously to life events and emotions rather than simply reacting habitually. </li><li>Reactive patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are usually subconscious conditioned programs that limit freedom and capacity for joy. </li><li>By becoming more awake to the present, you can slow down, step back, and make more skillful choices rather than blindly follow those reactive patterns.</li></ul>

Moving from Reactive Responding to Conscious Response

You have far more power over your personal lived experience - including perceptions, emotional states, and life outcomes - than you typically realize. <ul><li>Take responsibility for your internal experience rather than playing victim. </li><li>You co-create reality through intention, attention, and consciousness. </li><li>What you dwell upon or react to has tremendous influence on your experience of life.</li></ul>

Taking Greater Responsibility for Your Lived Experience 

<ul><li>Approach each moment with an open, receptive mindset without strong expectations. </li><li>Express heartfelt gratitude for life's gifts both small and large. </li><li>Embrace the unknown rather than resist uncertainty. This mindset releases reactive control patterns and anxiety about the imagined future. </li></ul>Allow what is meant for you to unfold.

Cultivating Openness, Gratitude and Embracing the Unknown

<ul><li>Apply spiritual principles like integrity, patience, generosity and service consistently in all areas of life rather than just when it's convenient. </li><li>Ethics and values should guide decision-making at all times to avoid reactive choices. </li><li>Integrate higher principles into practical life seamlessly.</li></ul>

Consistently Applying Spiritual Principles 

Dedicate your life purpose to serving the common greater good and furthering human unity. This lifts you beyond self-concern or ego into a mindset of selflessly assisting others. When you see the sacred in all people and things, reactive patterns automatically fall away.

Dedicate Your Life to Serving the Common Good

<ul><li>Many reactive patterns in adulthood originate from core childhood emotional wounds around issues like abandonment, betrayal, criticism or abuse. </li><li>Use spiritual tools like inner child work, empty chair dialogues, ritual and breathwork to compassionately heal these past wounds at their source. </li><li>This stops you from subconsciously recreating childhood pains in the present by ending detrimental reactive cycles stemming from old trauma.</li></ul>

Healing Core Childhood Wounds That Drive Reactions 

Get in deep touch with your Inner Wisdom - the innate source of truth within that guides intuition, fulfillment, and purpose. Let it reveal your special calling. Then realign life and goals around actualizing your full potential in service of that higher purpose. This act of deep inquiry and realignment liberates you from reactions arising from misalignment between your inner truth and outer life.

Discovering and Following Your Unique Calling

Do the inner work to uncover your true authentic self beyond limiting masks and constrictions. Then express your full authenticity moment to moment without self-censorship arising from fear, anxiety, or trying to please others. Much reactive conditioning aims at limiting authentic self-expression. Heal these patterns.

Expressing Your Full Authentic Self Without Limitation

In Conscious Living, Gay Hendricks provides strategies for breaking free from reactive patterns and rediscovering joy, presence, and purpose. He offers spiritual principles for creating an awakened life.

In his bestselling book Conscious Living, pioneering therapist Gay Hendricks taught couples how to find balance and happiness in relationships.Now he gives us Conscious Living, a practical guide for the individual that brings new insights into a fundamental truth of daily truth of daily life. Five simple lessons of "conscious living", rooted in the ancient traditions of Stoicism and Taoism, help us overcome obstacles and fears and awaken our own creativity.

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In his bestselling book Conscious Living, pioneering therapist Gay Hendricks taught couples how to find balance and happiness in relationships.Now he gives us Conscious Living, a practical guide for the individual that brings new insights into a fundamental truth of daily truth of daily life. Five simple lessons of "conscious living", rooted in the ancient traditions of Stoicism and Taoism, help us overcome obstacles and fears and awaken our own creativity.