S2 Ep 10: Pathwalking – A Practice for Greater Self-Awareness

Everyone seeks to choose their own life path I’ve been working on sharing the power of conscious reality creation and mindfulness with the world. To do this, I’ve made numerous life choices for the path I intend to walk, the blogs I write, and even the journeys of my fictional characters in the sci-fi and fantasy I create. All of this comes down to Pathwalking – my life philosophy for how to choose your life experience – one step at a time. Problem: You feel dissatisfied with your life. You feel like your life is not yours to control. It feels as if you are on a hamster wheel or otherwise spinning endlessly with no set plan or direction. Solution: Practical applications of Pathwalking to make choices and decisions to guide your life experience how you desire it to go. Go with the flow When I began to develop Pathwalking, I came to see life as a flowing river. Like the river, it’s not always a simple flow. Sometimes there are rocks, rapids, natural and artificial obstacles, and so on. As you flow in the river of life, situations, experiences, and seasons change. Some change is natural, some artificial. And there is little to nothing you can do about this because change is inevitable. Pathwalking, like Buddhism, recognizes the impermanence of life. When you don’t go with the flow of positive, evolutionary change, you have three other options. 1.      Resist and be drowned 2.      Eventually, be swept into the stream 3.      Swim What is Pathwalking – and what can it do for you? And what IS Pathalking? Mindfulness. Employing conscious awareness here and now to know yourself, in the present – the only time that’s really real – and with that knowledge, seek, find, and walk a path of your choosing. This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool: I’ve presented a tool just like this one before. But it’s such a powerful tool that it’s worth repeating. I’m sharing my 5 Questions for Mindfulness here. Set aside 2-5 minutes today to answer the questions. To begin, pause from whatever else you’re doing. Take three slow, deep breaths in and out. Then, write out each question and the answer that comes to you in the moment. ·        What am I thinking? ·        What am I feeling? ·        How am I feeling? ·        What am I doing? ·        What are my intentions? These questions can only be genuinely answered in the present. The more you ask them – even if you don’t write them out – the more you put yourself in touch with yourself. See how that self-awareness impacts all your choices going forward.   Author Website: https://mjblehart.com Email: [email protected] Instagram Twitter Facebook Blogs: titaniumdon.com and mjblehart.medium.com Cover artist Fe Mahoney: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TaliasInspirations