'Your experience of life is
not based on your life, but on what you pay attention to.' (Gregg Kretch)
Reading this in a mindfulness book this morning struck a chord. If there is one
thing we therapists and coaches know, it's that how we pay attention to an
experience and make sense of it, defines what we do with that experience.
All too often I find myself with my eyes fixed metaphorically on a negative
horizon which is drawing my energy towards it and creating just the thing I am
anxious about.
And if that happens so easily to me, then how must it be for a client who comes
in being held hostage to their own thinking/ horizon!
It seems to me that it's
not enough to know about and agree with the concept of choosing where I put my
attention, but more importantly, to find ways to train myself to keep checking
where my attention has wondered to.
And of course, that's not bad advice for a therapist sitting with a client
either...
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