Always be conscious of your positive motivations and attitude Inspiration

Once again, this practice, like rousing our spirit and staying connected to our overall purpose highlights this point of consciously directing our mind to the positive, activated and affirmative intentions we have. The first and second practice points are about where we want to go and why, and what those individual practices are, this is about concentrating on the positive reasons for all that we are doing.

 

As humans, it’s amazing how many highly complicated skills we learn and can then do without even thinking about it. This fundamental ability and the intelligence that drives it has put us at the top of the food chain and made us the masters of our own fate, but it’s also a weakness. We can live out our entire lives in this way, running on programming without much conscious knowledge of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

 

This practice point came about during my first few months of building up my exercise regime. I’d started noticing how much mindless thinking I was doing while exercising. I was completely distracted, or worse, caught up in some sort of negativity about someone or something I didn’t like. Surely I should be more present in this vigorous physical activity I‘m engaged in?

 

At that moment, the pointlessness and complete wastefulness of it really struck me. I then noticed this general unfocused mindlessness in all other areas of my life, something I’d actually noticed years ago. Walking to work, shopping for food, riding my motorbike, any time my mind wasn’t actively engaged in a necessary thinking activity, my head was off somewhere, like it was playing some sort of vacuous infomercial of my life.

 

Our minds are usually always moving, thinking, ideating, ruminating, why not be in control of its content instead of it dictating terms. Use that valuable energy to focus on positive and invigorating aspects of our lives, staying connected and imbued with all the positive energy surrounding our virtuous intentions.

 

This practice point highlights the importance of staying conscious of why we are undertaking these practices and their fundamentally positive nature. When we concentrate on something, we make more of it. We’ve seen the negative aspect of this, like when we’ve had a confrontation with someone, we can’t stop thinking about it and all the ways in which we could’ve come out on top, or ways we might get back at them.

 

Here, we are using that same mental process in a very positive way, to solidify our relationship to very positive behavioral traits that we’ve initiated consciously to direct our life in nurturing and nourishing ways. We’re making the conscious decision to put our mind on what we want to become. The more we practice this, the more it trains us to be keenly aware of our overall state of being. We become tuned in to our motivations and intentions, our general physical, mental and emotional health.

 

Once you start to abide more consistently in peak physical, mental and emotional condition, you start to notice these coarser states of being and more quickly and actively seek to head them off before they get out of hand. You see the danger of them, and act to move them on. This happens quite naturally, without the need to deny or repress emotions and feelings, but with awareness, not allow yourself to be a victim to them.

 

Being conscious of our attitude

Along with staying connected to inspiration, maintaining a positive attitude is very much a part of this overall mental change we are trying to establish. Our attitudes are everything, they frame our relationship to reality, so being as aware of them as possible means we can consciously direct them to a more positive and affirmational view when we notice we are becoming negative.

 

Working with and changing our attitudes is a game changer. I’ve touched on this in the ‘Preparing our mind’ section of the main introduction and the topic deserves a full exposition which I will be publishing soon, so pivotal it is on our journey of transformation

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A positive mindset and attitude helps to support our motivations. Being more positive and empowered means we’re more likely to be successful in achieving our goals and ambitions. Not only that but our responses to life’s unpredictability will be more useful and effective in responding creatively and efficiently to every situation.

 

This shift in attitude is also about being more in accord with reality. We see the pointlessness of complaining or wishing things were different, it's completely wasted energy and accomplishes nothing. We become naturally more action orientated and this is a classic quality of positive people.

 

Keeping positive mental faculties present in our mind and being aware of their quality is part of this overall practice of diligent awareness and a keen sensitivity of our overall physical, mental and emotional health. We stay on point, on guard for negativity, tiredness, emotional upheaval, hunger, low energy states and so on.

 

This isn’t a tight, controlling hypervigilance, rather it’s an open, caring and receptive sense of where we are at any point in time. Cultivating this intention to discerning and diligent awareness will go a long way to supporting your journey and keeping you on track.