In our storylines, we come to conclusions about ourselves and our world and make judgments about who we are, about whether or not our needs and feelings are OK or not.

Awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and body—the clothing awareness puts on—and we need to discover what is underneath. We need to realise that awareness lives at the innermost core of our being. When our awareness is in the present moment, we’re in touch with who we really are, with our very essence.
Being in the present is being one with each heartbeat, each in-breath, each out-breath, from moment to moment…We only have our next breath, our next heartbeat, or we would not exist.
The past and future are only concepts, we only have the now…
What prevents us from being in the present moment?
Our reactive thinking prevents us from being in the present moment. From our earliest life encounters, our reactive thoughts create storylines about our experiences. We bring our cognitive and emotional development as a five-year-old to our experiences of parents, family, love, safety and fear.
In our storylines, we come to conclusions about ourselves and our world and make judgments about who we are, about whether or not our needs and feelings are OK or not. These storylines remain with us through adolescence and into adulthood. Throughout our life we add storylines and pile them one on top of the other. Our inner critic is an outgrowth of the conclusions we reach about who we are.
We are not our thoughts. We are not our storylines.
Our reactive thoughts create stress, fears and anxieties, our inner critic is a testimonial to this reactive-thinking, storyline-created life. Our reactive thinking creates suffering. Up to 85 percent of our life is spent in reactive thinking, either rehashing the past or rehearsing the future. We are incomplete, never good enough, always striving for completion.
Being in the present moment.
When our awareness is in the present, we are no longer scattered, we are at one with ourselves in the moment. We are at home with our essence. We are the witnessing, observing awareness of our thoughts and feelings, our doubts, our fears and suffering. Our thoughts reflect an insightfulness, creativity and wisdom far beyond anything that our reactive thinking can imagine. We move from a life of doing to a life of being who we are, being at one with ourselves in the present moment.

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives. #childwithin#10stages