With mindfulness exercises, you can know the consequences of your behavior. The way we conduct ourselves will always shift our inner posture, changing the way we interact with the world around us. For example, if you walk around with clenched fists, you’ll find that it will be very difficult for you to feel kindness towards the people around you. Such a small change of attitude can have great consequences.
Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior
SF
Sean FargoPublished January 12, 2015 · Updated March 27, 2024 · 1 min read
Printable Worksheet
Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior
PDF·162 KB
A mindful companion to this worksheet
Choosing from a quiet center
Decisions made from anxiety are rarely the ones we celebrate later. “Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior” asks you to pause long enough to know — beneath the noise of urgency — what is actually being asked of you.
How mindfulness can help
Mindfulness slows the metabolism of choice. By dropping out of the head and into the felt sense of the body, we access a wisdom that thinking alone cannot reach. We notice which option feels like contraction and which feels like spaciousness — and that distinction is rarely wrong.
Gentle steps to try
- Sit with the question. Name the decision clearly. Then breathe with it for a minute, asking nothing of yourself.
- Sense the body's vote. Imagine choosing option A. Feel your body's response. Now option B. The body often knows before the mind catches up.
- Consult your future self. Picture yourself a year from now. Which choice would they thank you for making today?
- Decide, then release. Make the choice, take the next small action, and let go of needing certainty. Clarity often arrives mid-step.
Few decisions are truly final, and most are reversible. Trust yourself to navigate what comes — you have done it before.
