Difference between reaction and response liberatetruepotential.com/2019/05/08/difference-between-reaction-and-response/ antoaneta
May 8, 2019
Difference between reaction and response? Do you react or response? Everything that happens to us creates a certain movement in our life. There is a system that works automatically. That system is a wonderful thing because it allows us to exist. We call him subconscious. It is, in fact, responsible for the overall functions of our organism. Thanks to it, our body works without our intention for a particular process such as breathing, blinking, moving, etc. The power of our subconscious goes even further. For one thought of our conscious mind, there are 15 million other thoughts in the subconscious. Sounds incredible, right? Our subconscious mind is a wonderful gift, but it can also bring us trouble if we do not learn how to use it. Very often our subconscious reacts before our conscious mind or even better, a higher intelligence. The subconscious allows us survival, clever, fast and efficient. But what happens if we react to life challenges with a subconscious mind? We have damaging reactions lead by our feelings. Let’s say someone tells you-you’re a bad person. Most of us would react
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automatically and furiously, “how can you tell me that, you do not even know me…”. In this case, we are talking about a reaction. Actually, we are not aware of our behavior; we cannot see the bigger picture . Our behavior is out of control. We feel threatened because the other person hurt our feelings and at that moment those 15 million information in subconscious take a lead upon us. At this point, reaction is not thought through nor we are aware of our reaction altogether. It is difficult to separate ourselves from the situation as we choose to be emotionally engaging in playing the victim. While at the same time we have another option. Someone called you a bad person as in the previous situation. But you took a second to think about it, you are aware that the other person’s opinion has nothing to do with you. You know who you are and do not allow anything to disturb the calmness, to be in peace is far more important than to be in right and your response becomes “OK, everyone has the right to their own opinion. If that’s yours, I’m fine with that. ” and you continue with your day without any engagement. In this scenario we are talking about a response. Ending a circle of frustration and anger with a smile and clarity, and instead of reacting you choose to respond. You’re thinking about the situation, taking all the factors into consideration and responding in a certain way. It may seem like some new philosophy, but we can apply this to absolutely every part of our lives. Life consists of events that we can react or respond. It depends exclusively on us which way we will choose. Each of them has its own consequences. If we react we lose a lot of energy we could invest in something we like, something we’re passionate about. As long as we response instead react, that energy remains preserved. Put energy in what matters to you, relationship, work, family, friends, instead of spending energy on reacting.
Difference between reaction and response? Reaction makes us an exponent of our subconscious; we are not present in our life. To respond, we observe our life and accept the situation as it is, we choose a role we want to play. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes do not. But even if we fail we can always choose our response to it, we will not be angry with ourselves but accepting that the second time will be better. With love, 2/3
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