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
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Sean FargoPublished January 12, 2015 · Updated October 21, 2026 · 1 min read
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Choosing from a quieter place
Decisions made from anxiety are rarely the ones we are glad about later. “Knowing the Consequences of Your Behavior” asks you to pause long enough to know, under the urgency, what is actually being asked of you.
How mindfulness can help
Mindfulness slows a decision down. Dropping out of the head and into the felt sense of the body gives us information that thinking alone can miss. We notice which option feels like tightening and which feels like room, and that is worth listening to.
Gentle steps to try
- Stay with the question. Name the decision clearly, then breathe with it for a minute without asking anything of yourself.
- Feel the body's response. Imagine choosing option A and notice how your body responds. Then option B. The body often knows before the mind does.
- Ask your future self. Picture yourself a year from now. Which choice would you thank yourself for making today?
- Decide, then let go. Make the choice, take the next small step, and let go of needing certainty. Clarity often arrives mid-step.
Few decisions are truly final, and most can be adjusted. You have found your way through before, and you can trust yourself to do it again.
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