There’s a nice analogy to a river. Water flows through the same path for years, carving a deeper bed and always taking the path of least resistance - internal habits and conditioned reactions. Your neurons become accustomed to sending energy down the same pathways again and again.

To divert the water and carve a new riverbed requires intentional work and ongoing energy. Identifying that conditioning and building new habits is hard. But with practice - creating new neural pathways - the stream moves. A new “path of least resistance” begins to form. And with time, your habitual reactions shift into an intentional response, and later that desired response (from a place of awareness and equanimity) becomes the new habit.

Mindfulness is a very reliable path to freedom 🫂✨🤍