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I feel so fortunate that in my mid-forties I realised that there must be more to life. I was living on auto-pilot and my life had become predictable without any meaningful sense of purpose. I was not unhappy but rather I lacked inspiration.

When I realised this I started a journey of self-observation. This entailed trying to observe myself from a distance. I did this for a few months but it was quite difficult as I was not able to maintain this observation for more than a few minutes. But I knew that it was a worthwhile process as I was already learning things about myself that I did not know.

I little while into this process I came across yoga and subsequently meditation. There was definitely synchronicity in this discovery as these practices were the vehicle that I needed to deepen this self-observation journey.

I used the formula; thoughts trigger emotion and emotion trigger behaviour, to reflect on what parts of me were operating on autopilot and what parts of me were truly me. My observation confirmed the theory that many of our automatic thoughts (which may trigger destructive and unwanted behaviour), are irrational. These irrational thoughts have developed over our entire lifetimes and cannot be easily changed. However the observation of them is a critical start to any transformation required. We will possibly identify personal biases, limiting beliefs, traits and characteristics that we did not know about, triggers such as certain scenarios or people that cause unwanted emotion.

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