Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to talk about how awareness alone is curative.

I'm going to show you a secret for how to autocorrect any unwanted behavior. More action isn't always the answer, despite what you might hear in self-development circles.

In fact, neurosis can be defined as the excessive use of will, force, and action to try to change your own behaviors.

And what this leads to is self-sabbataging patterns,

where you try to change something, part of you wants to change it, and part of you

resist changing it, and the net result is that you're kind of stuck and you're

dead in the water and you're not getting the kind of results that you want in life and then you're feeling

guilty and bad about all these behaviors that you have in your life that you don't really want,

but then secretly you actually do want them, which is why they are still there in your life.

So one way to overcome this is to really experience a reframing about this idea of how change is created in your life.

And I want to share a very deep insight with you, a very powerful insight that can totally

transform your life as simple as it is if you just start to apply it.

And what this inside is is simply that awareness alone is curative.

Let me repeat that.

Awareness alone is curative.

What this means is exactly what it sounds like.

It means that you don't necessarily need to plan and work really hard to let go of unwanted behaviors.

In fact, what it means is that any unhealthy behavior that you have will autocorrect in time merely through the process of observation, which is what awareness essentially is. It's simply observation. So we need to draw a distinction here between you trying to actively

change some aspect of your life, like maybe you're trying to quit smoking or overeating,

or you're trying to become more confident, or you're trying to be more responsible with your finances,

something like this, right?

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