Operating Systems

I speak about this often but my belief is we have two operating systems - one from the ego and one from the soul.

Or you can call it the mind and the heart, or human animal vs. human spirit. 

The first is entrenched in fear, competition, lack, survival and self-importance.  

The latter comes from a place of abundance, cooperation, understanding, compassion, generosity and love.

In every moment, we have an option on which to operate from.  Unfortunately, the ego or the human animal side which is driven by instinct, kicks in first.  

It takes a lot of awareness to notice it, pause and choose a different response.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist, said “Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Notice when you react from fear, lack or self-importance.  Take a pause to breathe and choose to respond from love, which is our true nature.  This is self-mastery.

XO

Adrienne