Knowing your ‘WHY’ is so important to you, and here’s why!

When you know why you think, say and do the things you think and say and do, you award yourself three great powers:

Clarity
Freedom
Peace

Clarity: when you stop to reflect on the thoughts and beliefs, and the emotions and feelings passing through your mind and body, placing yourself in the position of conscious observer, no longer a mere subject, and you consider what is causing you to have these experiences and sensations, you award yourself new found clarity.

Perhaps a conversation triggered a feeling that touched a pre-existing emotion that has not been processed, creating a stirring in your soul that led to an unexpected emotional sensation or outburst?
Perhaps you are reacting out of context to something in your personal or professional life, but without reflection time to consider ‘why’, you may not be recognising that you feel the way you feel because you are actually experiencing mounting pressure or related triggers from varied sources, and it is this multi-system trigger that is causing your reaction.
Your hormones may be causing you to move outside your normal balance, for a time, but without asking ‘why’ am I thinking or feeling this way, it may have slipped your mind, and so you find yourself slipping down a rabbit hole into a reality that never needed to be imagined?
Or, sometimes, a deep inner knowing that you are acting out of alignment with your truth is creating unrest in your soul and discomfort in your body that you would only be able to identify through some silent reflection?

With fresh insight or new information gained from understanding why you are thinking, feeling and behaving as you are, or making the choices you are choosing, you can then begin to initiate change where it matters to you now, or to strengthen acceptance about the way things are, because now you are clear about your ‘why’ and you ‘why’ matters, giving meaning to what is.

Perhaps below the pressures of work and the frustrations of daily life, your ‘why factor’ is financial security for your family, a stepping stone towards a greater story, a necessary learning, the choice to live where you live, a meaningful purpose that requires you to walk through fear, doubt and uncertainty along the way, or the space, the people, the work, the income and the freedom awarded matters more than the presenting irritant? Knowing your ‘why’ can help you see things in a different perspective, which may just lead to you feeling better.

Freedom: When you have awarded yourself understanding about your ‘why’, you then move into the realms of freedom, empowered to make new choices about how you wish to respond to your thoughts, feelings, emotions, behaviours and your situation, as the person you are now choosing to be. It is this conscious ownership of ‘free choice’ that awards you freedom. When your free choices are also made are in alignment with your true heart values, through honouring your heart truth, you are granted a profound inner strength that gives you the courage to move through fear, doubt and uncertainty and towards your chosen reality. We gain great strength from the pursuit or what really matters, especially when the pursuit of meaningful living is walked in the presence of loving kindness.

Peace: When you understand your ‘why’, the arising understanding can help foster feelings of acceptance about why you are thinking, feeling and behaving or living as you are, and it is through acceptance of what is, of our choices, of what we cannot control, that we move out of internal conflict and into a new sense of peace. It is from a place of peace that we put an end to wasting energy and mental focus on emotional conflicts and liberate ourselves to give focus and gather energy to think, feel and live our heart-truth, and this brings deeper peace.

Reflecting on ‘why’ gives you a moment to pause, reflect, connect, re-vision, re-align and restore your clarity, your freedom and your peace.