"Don't let the fear of striking out, stop you from playing the game"
When I studied Biology for A level, one of the aspects of the subject that fascinated me was learning about the human body. The more you start to learn about how the body works, the more fascinating it becomes. One of the features that I used to find interesting was that of Reflex Reactions. The reactions the body does without thinking about it. Those automatic responses that occur to protect the body.
For example, when you put your hand on something hot, your brain automatically tells your hand to take it off. You don't think about it. It doesn't take time for you to look at your hand and think "I better move that because this is burning me." It's reflex - an automatic response!
But somehow, over time, it's not just reactions to protect us that have become reflex. Let me explain.
As was out driving this morning, I happened to drive past a car, the driver of which somehow knew me. They flashed at me and waved at me. And what did I do? I flashed and waved back. I didn't think about it. I just did it. It was reflex.
After the car passed I suddenly realised, "I have no clue who that was."
I didn't recognise the car, I didn't recognise the driver, but they flashed and waved at me and so my automatic response was to wave and flash back. They might have been flashing me to warn me of an accident, they might have been flashing me to tell me something was wrong with my car, but I just took it as them knowing me and that was that.
And that got me thinking about this topic of reflex reactions. Those times we do things without thinking. There are so many things we do in life without thinking. They become second nature to us.
And so I end with this thought.
In life there are many things that we let become reflex. I'm sure you can think of things in your own life that you have let become reflex in your life. Some things good, other things not so good. Very often we can let past experiences affect our futures and cause us to develop reflex responses that don't help us.
What do I mean? Well, think of it like this. When you've tried something new and not been successful at it, you can feel like you've failed. After that point our first reaction to new experiences can always end up being negative. We let failure become our reflex response to new things. That can happen in so many different times in life.
But just like so many of those reflex reactions that we have developed, that are not natural to us, so we can also undeveloped them. In life try to make your reflex reaction to new experiences and challenges something positive.
Don't let negativity be the reflex reaction to the new experiences in your life. Make positivity and success your reflex reaction to everything that happens in life!
Life Happens - Bywyd yn Digwydd
Ryan :)
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