{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-15T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-09-27T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T00:52:20","slug":"tip-1-taking-notice-in-your-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/tip-1-taking-notice-in-your-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #1: Taking Notice in Your Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This first Tip is aimed at getting you started to choose the specific area-for-change that will be your starting point. To successfully make any journey, it is important to determine where to start!<\/p>\n<p>This first Tip is: Be aware of your experience each and every moment.<\/p>\n<p>There is a whole gamut of experiences going on within you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand around you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat any given moment. Your awareness of your inner experience\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust attending to what is going on inside of you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyour heart rate, your thoughts, your breathing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dputs you in the position to make positive decisions that honor your inner state.<\/p>\n<p>Your observation of what goes on in your surroundings\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust noticing, not judging\u00e2\u20ac\u201drecognizing that you cannot change <!--more-->most of it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dletting it be what it is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dputs you in the position to make positive decisions that honor your outer state. This, in turn, allows you to be more proactive in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Now, record what you notice. If you like what you become aware of\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgreat! Let it stay that way!<\/p>\n<p>If you do NOT like something that you become aware of\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgreat! You can take the steps to change it! Just mark it down \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll use it later.<\/p>\n<p>Take what you have recorded to guide your choice in what changes to start with. Then, from the list of items that you have recorded, set up your priorities. Determine which of those recorded changes to begin with first.<\/p>\n<p>Once this is done\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby the very action of doing it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou are on your way!<\/p>\n<p>Please leave comments on your experiences with using these ideas? Just enter your thoughts in the section below, entitled &#8220;Leave a Reply&#8221; and click on &#8220;Submit Comment&#8221;.  This will input your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This first Tip is aimed at getting you started to choose the specific area-for-change that will be your starting point. To successfully make any journey, it is important to determine where to start! This first Tip is: Be aware of your experience each and every moment. There is a whole gamut of experiences going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-healing","category-mental-healing","category-physical-healing","category-spiritual-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}