Unless You Are Taking Action, You Are Doing Nothing

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Written By Raine Creative

Thinking and feeling is only a starting point

We can think and feel all day long – and go nowhere.

Without taking action – thought and feeling have no power.

It is this idea that, to me, explains the meaning of my favorite Yoda quote,

“Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.”

The concept of “try” doesn’t necessarily connect to action. I can try to do virtually anything I set my mind to. But it’s meaningless without the action of doing.

That’s why “do” is so much more powerful. It sets you up for action. And action is the only way to make anything at all happen.

Actions speak louder than words

Actions have more power than thoughts and feelings.

If you desire to make anything at all happen in your life – action is required. To control anything that occurs in your life - you take action.

When you employ conscious awareness – mindfulness – you choose action versus inaction. And sometimes that means you choose to be inactive. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Why is action so important?

Why is action so important to making anything at all happen?  Because action empowers. Empowerment is how we choose our life experiences and pick what we desire to do, be, and have.

When you choose to act for yourself and your life experience – you take control. It may not go how you intend for it to go – and there are always going to be outside influences you can never control - but it’s still you doing the driving. That’s why anything at all that happens is always a product of action.

This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool:

Do you have something that’s been hijacking, sabotaging, or otherwise invading your thoughts and feelings?

This week’s mindfulness tool takes that thing in your head you would very much like to let go of and applies action to that end.

Here’s how.

1.       Write it all down - on paper. Whatever the thing that you would like to let go if is – get the whole thing on paper. Put your heart and soul into it, whatever it is. Write, don’t type this. Get all the feeling attached to it, and every last detail past and present related to it onto that paper.

2.       Read it. Aloud. When you read it give it all the thought and feeling like you’re pouring water from a pitcher.

3.       Destroy it. Tear it to shreds, set it on fire, or do something else literal and cathartic to destroy it as completely as possible.

You can do this for more than one thing separately or put many things down. I tried this myself recently and the release that came with the action felt amazing.

Raine Creative
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