The dictionary defines reaction as: 1) an action performed or a feeling experienced in response to a situation or event; 2) a persons ability to respond physically and mentally to external stimuli; 3) an adverse physiological response to a substance that has been breathed in, ingested or touched.
Overall in daily life, most of our reactions to other people or situations are actually mental re-actions (read that kind of like a mental repeat.) Somehow, when we react to others or circumstances, often, we have mentally stepped out of the present. Instead, we have moved into our immense memory filing system and managed to pull up some old files. In nano-seconds, the result is that we are trying to connect unrelated memories or feelings about a past moment to the present situation at hand. So, instead of staying present and assessing the current circumstance or person, in our minds we are re-acting to some other moment and trying to tie it to the present one. Basically we are in a state of re-call and response.
Since this current moment has never happened before, whether we are alone or with others, unless it is one where we are potentially in physical danger — we don’t want to be re-acting. Instead, we want to be wholly present with the individual and/or the moment at hand. Not “re-acting” is the only way we can really see and try to understand ourselves and/or another person while also live fully.
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