Hi, I'm Diane Grissel and today I'm going to read to you an excerpt from my book The Silver Dispedians Playbook. I hope you enjoy it. I want to read about reactions. The dictionary defines reaction as one an action performed or a feeling experienced in response to a situation or an event or 2A Person's ability to respond physically and mentally to external stimuli 3. An adverse psychological response to a substance that has been breathed in, ingested, or
touched. Overall, in daily life, I define most of my reactions as mental re actions. So read that kind of like a mental repeat. A reaction is nor often that we're reenacting something in our minds. Somehow, when I react to people or circumstances, I realize I've mentally stepped out of the present moment. I've moved into my immense headcase filing system. Yes, head case, pun intended, and I pulled out some old files in nanoseconds.
The result is that I'm trying to connect unrelated memories or feelings about a past moment to the present situation. So instead of staying present and assessing the current circumstance or person, in my mind I'm reacting some other moment and trying to tie it to the present one that I'm in now. I'm in a state of recall and response since this current moment has never happened to any of us before, whether alone or
with others. Unless it is one where we are in danger, which is rarely the case, we don't want to be reacting. We want to be wholly present to the individual and the moment at hand. Not reacting or repeating an action in our memory and drawing that into the present moment, not reacting is the only way we can really see and try to understand another person or live fully. Now, I'm not telling you I have this down because again, these are my meditations and This is
why I write. This is my book, Silver Dispedians Playbook. I'm Diane Grissel. Thanks for tuning in.