Still In Autopilot?

 

STILL IN AUTOPILOT?  Hey dude, do you still feel like you're running through the motions?  The days are passing by, and you feel stuck in the same place.  You're doing the same things, driving through the same lanes, wading through traffic gridlocks that have changed BUT only from bad to worse, eating the same food, going to the same cafeteria in a 'rush' mode, and oh YES, bumping across the same people, same faces.  YES, life seems to be happening to us instead of through us.  So, IF you indeed ask yourself these questions often, then you too, are living your life on AUTOPILOT mode.  Alas, you may lose your motivation to do something new.  WHAT else can you change if you're kind of stuck and stalled in that AUTOPILOT mode💚💛💜

Is it worth talking at all IF you find yourself making the same decisions and still you're NOT sure anymore IF you make them out of genuine choice OR simply because of your ease and familiarity?  Experts have covered this in extensive research studies and have coined this as PERCEPTUAL DECOUPLING, that time WHEN our brain disconnects from the present moment to conserve energy, leading you to make and reach decisions automatically, almost effortlessly, WHICH is something ironic, right???

Been there, done that.  There were many times, after a whole day's work, I remember I'll drive home from work, even though I was constantly changing lanes to weave through traffic gridlock, I felt I hardly exerted any significant efforts because it seemed my brain knew it already, so that's WHAT the experts coined PERCEPTUAL DECOUPLING, that intentional part of our mind to switch off WHILE the unconscious takes charge😡😡😡

To look at things with a balanced perspective, AUTOPILOT can be both a tool of efficiency and preservation depending on the circumstances that prevail on a given time.  And that applies well to our brain.  WHEN we move through life on AUTOPILOT mode, we end up operating within the confines of our own programming.  And without that conscious awareness, we end up going through the motions based on WHAT is available OR given to us❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  NOT to downplay the benefits of running in AUTOPILOT, let's heed to the advice from experts that we need conscious thought if we want to do anything outside of our 'existing programming'.  IF we want to change our lives, IF we need to break loose from stagnation, IF we want to extricate ourselves from a state of stupor, IF we want to create a breakthrough we deserve in life, by all means, unshackle yourself from that AUTOPILOT loop because that's only beneficial up to a point before it becomes more as a sword of Damocles hanging and hovering over you.  STILL IN AUTOPILOT dude???