Habits and practices
I used to carry a powerful vision of what I would be like if I had all the right habits. Among other aspirations, I wanted to program myself jump out of bed at 5am and do 100 pushups without giving it a second thought.
Now I see that my desire to bury behaviors into automation was keeping me from my deeper self. Living a life driven by unconscious habits (even healthy ones) kept me from living fully in the present moment.
Conscious practices, like writing this blog, bring me more fully into my awareness than patterns of habit. Without choice and intention, such practices would lack depth and meaning.
Where are you burying your head in old habits when you could be standing tall in new practices?